Among the Magazines. 19 



52 pages of clear type on good paper, giving a list of the Poly- 

 petalous plants on which fungi have been recorded as found in 

 extratropical North America; with a list of the fungi under each 

 plant, in which full attention is paid to synonomy. Some species 

 of plants stand as hosts to a very large number of fungi, Lirio- 

 dendron tulipifera, for instance, having no less than 86, while the 

 apple tree has 80. It is hoped that the remainder of the list will 

 be issued during the coming winter, when also will be given any 

 additions to part 1 brought to light in the meanwhile. 



T. D. A. c. 



I. M. Coulter and J. N. Rose. New Western Umbelliferce — 

 Erymgium armatum, California, southward to San Diego Co.(Or- 

 cutt), E. vaseyi. California and Oregon, Peucedanum martindalei, 

 Oregon and Var. angustatum, Oregon, Wash. Ter. and Van- 

 couver I., P. donnellii, Oregon, P. californicum, California, P. 

 vaseyi, California, Selinum grayi (gmelini Port. & Coult), Col- 

 orado, S. dawsoni, Yukon, Ccelopleurum maritimum, Wash. Ter. 

 " Bot. Gazette," 1888. 141 -145 



C. F. Morrison. A list of some birds of La Plata County, 

 Col., in Orn. & Ool., 1888, p. 115. This valuable little list con- 

 tinues, the present installment being lrom Colaptes to Buteo. 

 The author writes of Colaptes, " all our flickers are true mexican- 

 us, and I am glad to be in a country where hybridus is not found; 

 in Wyoming I nearly became demented arranging my numerous 

 specimens taken there.' ' 



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Insect Life." Devoted to the economy and life habits of 

 Insects, especially in their relations to Agriculture, and edited by 

 the Entomologist and his assistants with the sanction of the Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture. Washington (U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture), Vol. 1, 1888. No. 1, July, and No. 2, August. 



Perhaps no department of Government work' has ever been 

 more thoroughly up to the standard to which it aimed than the 

 division of Entomology ol the Department of Agriculture. Agri- 

 culturalists and Entomologists alike have constantly been indebt- 

 ed to the careful and fruitful work of Prof. Riley and his assist- 

 ants and it is therefore with most entire satisfaction that we greet 

 the issue of a new monthly bulletin, "Insect Life," in which the 

 results of that work, too bulky for full publication in the "Annual 

 Report," will be given in detail, accompanied by many and ex- 

 cellent illustrations. The first number commences with a " salu- 

 tatory " from Prof. Riley, wherein he says " We hope to make 

 the periodical interesting and useful to all in any way concerned 

 in entomology, and, without further comments or promises, we 

 cordially invite such to co-operate with us in our endeavors." 

 After this follows an illustrated biography of the corn-feeding 

 Syrphus fly (Mesograpta polita), and many other interesting ar- 

 ticles, including descriptions of five new species of Onccenemis by 

 I. B. Smiih, namely, O. fasciatus from Nevada Co., Calif., O. 



