596 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST.  [Vou. XXXII. 
placed in Macrocephalus. The species of Macrocephalus have the 
same distribution as those of Phymata, and, as with Phymata, but 
four species are found in America, north of Mexico. The habitat 
of the single species of Oxythyreus is not known ; Amblythyreus, 
six species, Cnizocoris, two species, and idaaspelta three species, 
are all from the Indo-Asiatic region ; Agrenocoris, with a single new 
species, is, with doubt, credited to Mexico. The subfamily Carcino- 
coring consists of two genera, Carcinocoris, two species from Indo- 
Asia, and a single species of Carcinochelis, described as new, from 
an unknown habitat. The plates and cuts adequately illustrate the 
text. 
A striking contrast to this careful, original monograph of Hand- 
lirsch may be found in “The Pterophoride of North America,” by 
C. H. Fernald (35th Ann. Rept. Mass. Agric. College, January, 1898, 
pp. 83-163, 9 pls. Separate: January, 1898, 80 pp., 9 pls.). 
Professor Fernald devotes less than a page to geographical and 
geological distribution, economic importance, and natural enemies ; 
the history and structure of the family are stated in less than eight 
pages, and there are very brief notes on the habits and early stages. 
The greater part of the work is given over to an account from a sys- 
tematic standpoint of the six genera and fifty-eight species found in 
America, north of Mexico ; a notice of Orneodes hexadactyla is added. 
The whole work is essentially compiled ; it contains hardly an 
original line from a biologic point of view; of early stages the de- 
scriptions and accounts are, almost without exception, surrounded by 
quotation marks, and though the author is stated, the reference to 
the place of publication is frequently omitted. While this paper’by 
Professor Fernald may serve the purpose of calling attention to our 
plume-moths or feather-wings, it will hardly enhance the reputation 
of its author. It shows everywhere carelessness in preparation and 
haste in publication. Important references to descriptive matter, 
previous notices of food-habits, of early stages, and records of habi- 
tats are omitted ; species treated in the text are left out of the tables ; 
a species appears in the text under one name and in the table under 
a different name; the bibliographic references are not uniform ; 
Zeller’s paper (1873) is cited, on the first pages, “ Beit.” and later on 
as ‘ Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wiens.” ; the number of specimens studied is 
given in some cases; in others it is not given ; direct detailed refer- 
ences from text to plates are not given. 
Plate I shows the external morphology of Pterophorus monodactylus ; 
of the other plates two are given over to venation, the others to geni- 
