i8 The West American Scientist. 



found a library and museum. The annual subscription for mem- 

 bers resident in Colorado is $1.00, and that for corresponding 

 members 0.25. Full particulars may be obtained from the secre- 

 tary (pro tern), T. D. A. Cockerell, West Cliff, Custer Co., Color- 

 ado, who will heartily welcome all co-operation. 



AMONG THE MAGAZINES. 



"An Enumeration of the Published Synopsis, Catalog- 

 ues, and Lists of North American Insects." — Bulletin 

 No. 19, Div. of Entomology, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, 1888. — 

 The title of this admirable bulletin sufficiently explains its nature, 

 and it need hardly be said that it will be of the greatest value to 

 Western Entomologists, who have so few opportunities for con- 

 sulting the large public libraries. We should have liked the 

 "List of works on Economic Entomology" (p. 70), to have been 

 a little more comprehensive — only 25 titles are quoted —but pro- 

 bably want of space compelled its reduction within what might be 

 considered desirable limits. 



" Nesting of the Ruddy Duck " by W. G. Smith. " Orni-. 

 thologist and Oologist," Sept., 1888, p. 132 (on the nesting of 

 Erismatura nebida at Loveland, Colorado.) 



T D. A. C. 



"Abstract of Proceedings of the South London En- 

 tomological and Natural History Society for the year, 

 1887" (publ. August, 1888, London, Eng., 127 pp. and 2 plates.) 

 This volume is full of interest for the British Entomologist, but 

 has, as one might suppose, but few references to Western North 

 America. PI. 2, fig. 2, represents the male sex of a remarkable 

 beetle from Mexico, Golofa hastatus, showing the enormous 

 thoracic horn. On p. 72 is a note on insects exhibited from Col- 

 orado, including some apparently new species of Hymenoptera. 

 On p. 87, it is stated that a " melanic variety of Vanessa urticce " 

 taken in Mexico, was exhibited — doubtless this was V. milbertii. 

 P. 89 has an enumeration of Mollusca, said to be from Niagara 

 river, but as a matter of fact, all except the first mentioned were 

 from Colorado. There is also a note on a species of Helicopsyche 

 from Colorado, and on pp. 92, 93. An account of a case of 

 mimicry between Vanessa antiopa and a species of Lecustidce in 

 the same State. 



"A Provisional Host-Index of the Fungi of the United States " 

 by W. G. Farlow and A. B. Seymour. Part 1. Polypetalce. 

 (Cambridge, Mass., August, 1888.) 



All those who take any interest in Mycology will be sincerely 

 grateful to the authors of this list, which supplies so obvious a 

 want that it seems strange that Mycologists in the United States 

 can have done so long without one. The present part embraces 



