
REVIEWS. 151 
THE C ES OF NORTH AMERICA.* — Another of the useful ento- 
mological works issued by the Smithsonian Institution, is Baron Osten 
Sacken's elaborate Monograph of the North American Tipulidæ (or Crane- 
flies), with short palpi, comprising the smaller species of the family; the 
true Tipulids comprising the well-known crane-flies so abundant in our 
gardens and flelds. 'This work, destined, we judge, to be a classic in 
patent) is one of the most important works on insects published during 
the past year in any language. It will be noted at greater length in the 
“Record of American Entomology” soon to be published. 
VISION OF THE LARGE, STYLATED, FossORIAL CRICKETS. € the 
Pu number of the Memoirs of the an Academy of Science,t Mr. S. H. 
Scudder has brought under review all t e species of the sea crick- 
ets known to him, with the tions of the smaller forms. e de- 
scriptions of the species are carefully prepared, and each description is 
accompanied with a full table of measurements of several specimens. The 
plate contains a full-sized figure of Gryllotalpa australis, from New Hol- 
land, a species never before figured; sre thirty-seven details of forelegs 
and wing-covers of the different s spec 
The author has prefaced his own aa with a full list of the 
various writers on the group, with remarks on the species mentioned by 
each. The Mole Crickets which are paei with but two dactyls on 
the fore tibia, he places together as forming a new genus, to which ien 
gives the name of Scapteri scus, while for those having four dactyls, he 
tains the old generic name of Gryllotalpa. 
THE Noxious Insects or Missourt.t—This first report of the State 
Miiéntictógtet i is exceedingly creditable both to the author and the State 
which has so liberally fostered the study of economical entomology. 
Farmers and gardeners throughout the country will find it a very readable 
ook, and entomologists will glean many new facts from its pages. The 
chapter on Cutworm s, Bark-lice, the Plum-curculio, the Seventeen-year 
Me. the S nike cid and the Bot-fly of the sheep, are of especial 
vi did that the State of Missouri has acknowledged the value of the ` 
Study of practical entomology, by the appropriation of $3000 to pay the 
Salary of the Entomologist for the present year. In such a liberal provi- 

* Mon. hs of t IV. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Col- 
i gg ka Dipikir W E ( et eas a. 
Jan., 1869, Svo, pp. 345,4 4 pistes, 
t Imperial Svo, 32 pases and steel plate; tinted paper. Salem: Essex Institute Press. 
869. Price $ 
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