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Botany and Zoology. 431 
ticks, bot-flies, bed-bugs, mites, and acari, often troublesome to our 
domestic animals, as well as to man himself, ‘together with ac- 
counts of their hebits, effects, and remedies. Several pages are 
also devoted to introductory remarks on the structure of insects 
and their Classifiesti tion. 
Te Ue 
coma of man, shomaies ; the Fuse is Mentions or liver-fluke 
of sheep and cattle; the yin ngamus trachea or gape-worm of 
chickens, an an many others of importance. 
nm the Eared Seals ( Ot oe any detailed descriptions of 
the North Paci species; by J. A. Auten. Together with an ac- 
= of the rod bits of the Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursi- 
gS Bryant. 108 pp. 8vo, with three plates. From 
tlie Bulletin of | the Museum of Comparative per vol. ii, no, 1, 
Cambridge, Mass., August, 1870. oe is a very interes sting and 
important contribution to our knowledge of the seals of the Pacific 
and Southern oceans. It includes a résumé of the recent literature 
a 
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variations due to age and sex, etc., and a conspectus of the genera 
and species; detailed ees ns of Humetopias Si }. Peters, 
based on two perfect skins and two ligamentary pay ne: ; of Za 
phus Gillespii Gill, based on two skulls: and of Callorhinus ursi- 
habits of the last rb gor — ry a of the islands that they 
oe = get a Much in ss some of it 
so given ea ane vari concerning the 
habite of this and the other i “The geographical distribu- 
tion = the family is also discussed on page 
e plates and several wood-cuts are ene chiefly to Pos 
skulls and teeth. 
5. aes of American Entomoloy for the year 1869. Edited 
tony S. Packarp, Jr, M.D. Naturalist’s Book Agency, Salem, 
—This, like the Record for r 1868, is a work that should be in 
the | hands of every entomologist who hopes to keep up with the 
Pie is here stated that he ne Toa et enearaterges tomate 
quite reaches the tropics,” but Otaria 
Museum labeled as from “ slog - 
rectness of the locality. I ar ae oe that in the cage of Yale College there is a 
adult of the sam uk: oD - 
ther north, at Zorritos, Pera ‘Giant, lat. 5° 8.) whine ‘the marine fauna is emi- 
nently tropical and nearly identical with that of Panama.—. v. 
