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lein. Fascicle TS catalogues the beetles of the 

 Group Languriinse; W. W. Fowler is author; 

 45 pp., 3 colored plates. There is very little 

 original matter. Fasc. 79, reviewing the Or- 

 talid flies of the subfamily Pyrgotinse, is by 

 F. Hendel; 33 pp., 1 colored plate. This 

 author, as usual, gives a very satisfactory ac- 

 count. Fasc. 80 is on the Scelionidse, a family 

 of minute Hymenoptera, by C. T. Brues; 59 

 pp., 2 pis. Many of the species are from the 

 United States. An appendix includes the 

 European species recently described by Kieffer. 

 Fasc. 81 is by Dr. K. W. von Dalla Torre on 

 the Anoplura, or lice; 22 pp., 1 plate; a brief 

 treatment following the arrangement of En- 

 derlein. Fasc. 82° is an elaborate treatise on 

 the popular group of beetles — the Cicindelidse, 

 by W. Horn ; 104 pp., 4 plates and a map of 

 geographical distribution. Fasc. 83, Carabidse, 

 subfamily Omophroninse, by E. Eousseau, 5 

 pp., 1 plate; fascicles 84, 85, 86 are by the 

 same author on small groups of the Carabidas. 

 Fasc. 87 is on the " white flies — Aleyrodidse," 

 by A. L. Quaintance, 11 pp., 2 pis. Fasc. 88, 

 on the beetles of the subfamily Erotylinse, by 

 Paul Kunht; 139 pp., 4 colored plates, appears 

 to be very well prepared. Fasc. 89, 91, 92 are 

 by A. Bovie on groups of weevils; Lsemosac- 

 cinsB, 6 pp., 1 pi.; Belinss, 13 pp., 1 pi.; Gjrm- 

 netriniB, 22 pp., 2 pis., 1 of which illustrates 

 the life history. Fasc. 90, concerning grass- 

 hoppers of the subfamily Pyrgomorphinse, is 

 by I. Bolivar; 58 pp., 1 plate. It is a good 

 treatment of a group well known to the author. 



The fourth volume of the Cambridge Nat- 

 ural History has at last been issued. It con- 

 tains the accounts of the Crustacea and the 

 Arachnida. The Arachnida is mostly by Mr. 

 Cecil Warburton. The treatment is not very 

 detailed, and in some parts, as the pseudo- 

 scorpions, much out of date. The chapter on 

 mites is entirely too short, some large families, 

 as the Hydrachnidaj, being disposed of in four 

 or five lines. In general it is fairly accurate, 

 but so much interesting matter has been 

 omitted that the reader will gain only a slight 

 idea of the enchanting world of arachnids. 



The new entomological parts of " Die Siiss- 

 wasserf auna Deutschland's " include Hefte 3 



and 4 on the Coleoptera, by E. Kcitter, Heft 7 

 on the Collembola, Neuroptera Hymenoptera 

 and Rhynchota, by E. and H. Heymons and 

 Th. Kuhlgatz, and Heft 12 on the Aranese, 

 Acarina and Tardigrada, by F. Dahl, F. 

 Koenike and A. Brauer. 



The coleopterous part deals mostly with the 

 Dytiscidffi, Hydrophilidae and part of the 

 Staphylinidse. The part on Collembola is 

 mostly on the genus Smynthurus; that on 

 Neuroptera treats the genera Sialis, Osmylus 

 and Sisyra. The Hymenoptera include species 

 in the Ichneumonidte, Braconidae and Chalci- 

 dse. The Rhynchota by Kuhlgatz is rather 

 more complete than the other parts, with full 

 descriptions of each species. The part on 

 Corixa will be of value to the American hemip- 

 terist. Heft 12 on the Arachnida is almost 

 wholly occupied by the water-mites, Hydrach- 

 nidffi, and is very fully illustrated. 



Another part of the Catalogue of the Dip- 

 tera of the world by Dr. C. Kertesz is now 

 before us." This part contains the Bomby- 

 lidffi, Therevidse and Seenopinida;. For this 

 latter family Dr. Kertesz has adopted the name 

 Omphralidae. The Bombylidse include 1,696 

 species in 84 genera, the Therevidas include 

 270 species in 16 genera, and the Scenopinidas 

 have but 28 species in 4 genera. Conophorus 

 is used for Ploas, and Argyrammba for Spo- 

 gostylum of the Aldrich catalogue. Especially 

 commendable is the brief and logical form of 

 his references. 



A MONOGRAPH of MyrmecopTiila, a curious 

 genus of crickets, is the theme of Fritz Schim- 

 mer.° A considerable part is devoted to the 

 ethology and distribution of the genus, and 

 especially to its relations with certain ants. 

 The morphology and anatomy occupies the 

 bulk of the paper, while in the systematic part 

 are the descriptions of the eleven species, five 

 of which occur in the United States. 



- " Catalogus Dipterorura hucusque descrip- 

 torura," Vol. V., Budapest, 1909, 200 pp. 



" " Beitrag zu ciner Monographie der Gyrl- 

 lodengattung Myrmecophila Latr.," Zeitschr. 

 wissenschf. Zool., Vol. 93, pp. 409-.534, 3 pis., 

 many text figs., 1909. 



