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these flies were practically unknown to ento- 
mologists, and even specimens were rare in 
museums. Since their connection with dis- 
ease has been proved, Mr. Austen has had the 
opportunity of examining thousands of speci- 
mens. The author adopts the division of the 
genus into three sections as proposed by Mr. 
Newstead, but does not rely as much as that 
author upon the structure of the genitalia ~ 
for separating species. Fourteen species are 
recognized, and one considered uncertain. The 
puparia of six species are figured, and are all 
extremely similar in appearance. The illus- 
trations (by Terzi) are all that one could de- 
sire. 
Aw interesting review of the fleas infesting 
the domestic animals is furnished by Dr. K. 
Wolfthiigel.? Following a general account of 
the structure, habits and life-history of fleas, 
is a descriptive list of twelve species. The 
generic name Dermatophilus is used in place 
of Sarcopsylla, although the latter has four 
years priority. A host-list, and a bibliography 
is appended. ! 
Mr. H. ExtrincuamM has issued a large book 
summarizing his studies on the mimetic but- 
terflies of Africa.® Each species is treated 
under the mimetic association of which it is 
considered a member. These associations are 
based upon certain general plans of colora- 
tion. He shows that many of these butter- 
flies are distasteful to birds, and that the but- 
terflies eaten or attacked by birds are mostly 
non-mimetic species. 
Mr. R. SHetrorp, who has published re- 
cently on the cockroaches of amber’ finds that 
all the genera are recent ones, and that one 
species, Huthyrrhapha pacifica, is the same as 
a species now widely distributed in the trop- 
ies, but never recorded from Europe. This 
is not a primitive cockroach, but a highly 
2<<TDie Fléhe (Siphonaptera) der Haustiere,’’ 
Zeitschr. Infektionskr., par. Krankh. Hyg. Haus- 
tiere, VIIL, pp. 218-236, 354-382, 25 figs., 1910. 
3¢¢ African Mimetic Butterflies,’’ Oxford, 1910, 
136 pp., 10 pls. col. 
4¢¢The British Museum Collection of Blattide 
Enclosed in Amber,’’ Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
Zool., XXXII., pp. 59-69, 1 plate, 1911. 
SCIENCE 
[N.S. Vou. XXXV. No. 893 
specialized one. The specimen is marked 
much like the common form in South Africa. 
About ten species are described as new, some 
prettily maculated with yellow and brown. 
Mr. B. H. Wawpen is the author of the 
“ Orthoptera of Connecticut” in the series 
which Professor Britton proposes to publish 
on the insect fauna of that state. There are 
descriptions and synoptic tables to genera and 
species, and many notes on the habits of the 
100 species now known from that state. It 
will be a most useful work for the beginner, 
and if the other parts can be carried out in 
the same excellent manner the “ Guide” will 
be one of the most valuable works on North 
American entomology. 
Recent parts of the “ Catalogus Coleopter- 
orum” are No. 29, Staphylinide, Part IL., 
pp. 87-190, by M. Bernhauer and K. Schu- 
bert; No. 80, Cioide, 32 pp., by K. W. von 
Dalla Torre; one of our species Cis bimacu- 
latus Kraus is changed to C. krausi because 
of preoccupation, and No. 31, also by Dalla 
Torre on the Aglycyderide, one species from 
the Canary Islands, and the Proterrhinide, 
only represented in the Hawaiian Islands; 
No. 32 on the Hydroscaphide, by EK. Csiki, 
61 pp.; No. 33 by Dalla Torre on Nosendride, 
Byrrhide and Dermestide, 96 pp.; No. 34 on 
Erotylide, by P. Kuhnt, 106 pp.; No. 35 by 
J. Weise, on the Hispinez, 94 pp., and No. 36 
on the Anthicide, by M. Pic, 102 pp., these 
with many species in our country. 
Tue problem of the classification of the 
Coleoptera has been attacked from a new 
point by Dr. P. Netolitzky,° who has investi- 
gated the structure of the paramera in a num- 
ber of genera. These paramera, which are 
basal pieces of the male genital organs, are 
usually asymmetric in most of the Carabide, 
in Patrobus and allies but slightly so, in 
5«<The Euplexoptera and Orthoptera of Con- 
necticut; Guide, Insects Conn.,’’ Part II., Bull. 
16 State Geol. Nat. Hist. Survey, pp. 39-169, 5 
plates, 1911. 
6<<Tie Parameren und des System der Adephaga 
(Caraboidea),’’ Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1911, 
pp. 221-239. 
