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preys upon Icerya in California, and in South Africa its increase 

 is checked by RodoHa iceryoeand Chrysopa iceryoe. 



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George D. Hulst — 'The Epipaschiinoe of North America,' 

 1889. Reprinted from Entomolo,^ica Americana, with a plate 

 illustrating; structural characters. Twenty species of this family 

 of moths are described as occuring in North America, and very 

 full details are given, both descriptive and synonymical, although 

 the distribution is very slightly treated. There is also a catalogue 

 of the species, in which, however, one species described in the 

 body of the work (E. Zelleri) has been omitted. Yuma gen. 

 nov., is founded on a species (adulatalis) from S. California and 

 Texas, and Attacapa, gen. nov., on a Texan species. A. calli- 

 peplella. Several other species are recorded from the West. 



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Ultimate Fin.\nce — A true theory of wealth. By William 

 Nelson Black. The Humboldt Publishing Company, 24 East 4th 

 street, New York. The first two chapters treat of the 01 igin of 

 propertj'and the evolution of wealth, the third and fourth discuss 

 the principles and possibilities of banking and insurance, and the 

 fifth, sixth and seventh are devoted to a correction of the many 

 misconceptions that abound on the nature of accumulation, and 

 the administration of property. The book defines a system which, 

 if found organically practicable, will enable men to carry insur- 

 ance always without sacrifice of personal resources and some- 

 times with considerable gain. 



H. F. WiCKHAM — "A list of the Coleoptera of Iowa city and 

 vicinity." Bui. Lab. Nat. Hist., State Univ. of Iowa, Vol. I, No. 

 I, pp. 81-92. A check list of the Coleoptera of this district, in- 

 teresting for comparison with the fauna of the central region, 

 from which it very markedly diftcrs. The present recorder took 

 two species, Melanoj)hila atropurpurea and Chrysochus cobal- 

 tinus, which are not entered in Mr, Wickham's list, on a C. B. 

 and Q. train near Chariton, Iowa, 1887. It is not certain, how- 

 ever, that they may not have boarded the train in some other 

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The Journal of Mycology — Vol. 5, No. i, March, 1889. 

 This is the first number of the new series of this journal, to be 

 published quarterly by the Department of Agriculture, under the 

 su[)er\ision of B. T. (ialloway. It extends to fifty pages, with 

 eight plates, and like all the other work of the department is thor- 

 oughly well done. A new genus, thirteen new species, and two 

 new varieties are described, and there are also articles dealing 

 with the economic side of the question, and reviews of new litera- 

 ture. The most interesting paper to western botanists is one by 

 Mr. W. F. Anderson, on the fungi of Montana. T. D. A. €• 



The Nautii.us — No. i, May, 1889. The first number con- 

 tains an important contribution by W. H. Dall, on a species 



