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book is thus avoided, and Mr. Shand alternately amuses and 

 instructs the reader until he leaves him with the following 

 quotation from a letter of Sydney Smith to Canon Barham : — 

 " Many thanks, my dear sir, for your kind present of game. If 

 there is a pure and elevated pleasure in this world it is that of 

 roast pheasant and bread sauce ; barn-door fowls for dissenters, 

 but for real churchman, the thirty-nine-times-articled clerk, the 

 pheasant ! the pheasant ! " 



A Preliminary List of the Hemiptera of Colorado. By C. P. 

 Gillette and Carl F. Baker. 8vo, pp. 137. Fort 

 Collins, Colorado. 1895. 



The amount of good entomological work which is being done 

 in America is simply astonishing. While entomologists in this 

 country are still trifling with popular books on Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera, the Americans are energetically working out the 

 insect fauna of their continent, and not only in the more showy 

 orders of insects. We have here a catalogue of the insects 

 belonging to one of the least-studied orders, and a catalogue of 

 the productions of one of the most distant States, including 

 hundreds of species, with the most elaborate information 

 respecting localities, elevations, &c. Many species are here 

 described as new by the best specialists in America, and the 

 descriptions are frequently illustrated by magnified details. One 

 oversight, however, may be noted : the catalogue gives no names 

 but those of species and genera, proceeding in one list without 

 any indication of the suborders Heteroptera and Homoptera by 

 different headings. 



It is quite time for British entomologists to bestir themselves, 

 and to see that the productions of British colonies are worked 

 out in the various orders other than those which are the most 

 popular, although there is much to be done even as regards the 

 latter. With respect to England itself, there are whole families 

 of insects, comprising hundreds, if not thousands, of species, at 

 which only one or two entomologists are at present working ; 

 while there are others concerning which very little native 

 information is published, and that antiquated and unreliable. 





