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gest and a manual it has no equal. How much of its value is due 
to its very able editor, does not appear. His interpolations, how- 
ever, are too often personal rather than ornithological. The physi- 
cal features of the volume are all satisfactory, except the numerous 
illustrations, all borrowed, and many of them too old for further 
use. The contents are: an introduction, with suitable informa- 
water-birds, are again animated. Why cannot Mr. Stearns fulfill 
them, with additional credit to himself, and pleasure to the pub- 
lic?P—H. D.M ° 
Bronn’s Ciasses AND ORDERS OF THE ANIMAL Kincpom, Crus- 
TACEA.—Geistaecker’s great work on the Crustacea has reached 
the first three numbers of the second part, on the Malacostraca, 
and begins with the Isopods, treating of them in the same general 
Manner as the Entomostraca and other lower Crustacea. Some 
ninety pages are devoted to an account of the organization of this 
group, the subject not being completed at the end of the third 
number. The eight closely crowded plates are well drawn. 
When this series is completed it will form a library in itself. 
INDEX To RILEY’s NINE REPORTS ON THE INSECTS OF MissourI! 
—The nine reports of Professor Riley on the injurious insects of 
Missouri, were perhaps the most valuable series of State entomo- 
logical reports ever issued, consisting largely of original matter 
w:th most excellent illustrations ; and as they have long been out 
of print, this index and supplement will be useful for reference, as 
all of the descriptions of new species are reproduced with notes 
and additions. 
Recent Books AND PAMPHLETS.—On the Cynipodous galls of Florida. By 
William H. Ashmead. From the Monthly Proceedings Entomological Section 
nag Natural Sciences Philadelphia, 1881. Paper No. 1, pp. IX-XIV; Paper 
* 2, pp. XV-xx. From the author. 
On the number of molts of butterflies, with some history of the moth Callosamia 
prthen By William H. Edwards. From Psyche, Vol. 3, No. 81, pp. 159-161. 
rom the author. 
Annual Report of the Entomological Society of the Province of Ontario for the 
ay aoe, E oronto, 1881, 8vo, pp. 89. From the society. 
ion — deux Sociétés Phorticulture aux Etats-Unis. Par M. V.-Ch. ays pein 
ica e la Soc. nation. d Hortic., 3¢ série, 111, 1881, p. 261-271. From 
a Department of the Interior, U.S. Entomelogical Commission. Bulletin No. 6. 
C Neral Index and Supplement to the nine reports on the Insects of Missouri. By 
“HARLES V. Ritey, V ashington, March 24, 1881. 8vo, pp. 177. 
