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These are (1) Northern Philippines, consisting of Luzon and Mu- 
rinduque and a few small islands around Luzon; (2) Mindoro; (3) 
Central Philippines, embracing Panay. Negros, Guimaras, Zebu, 
Bohol, and Masbate ; (4) Eastern Philippines, comprising Samar 
and Leyte; (5) Southern Philippines, made up of Mindanao, Ba- 
silau, and perhaps Sulu ; and (6) Western Philippines, consisting 
of Palawan and Balabac. 
EcHiNODERMS.— Prof. P. Herbert Carpenter is studying the 
Comatulse of the " Blake" explorations in the Caribbean Sea. 
Worms.— F. E. Beddard {Nature, XXXIX., p. 15) describes some 
very large hooked bristles upon the caudal end of an earthworm 
(Flirochgeta) received from Bermuda which he suggests are correlated 
with the habit which most earthworms have of lying with the an- 
terior part of the body out of the ground, only the tail being kept 
within the hole. These bristles would thus form very efficient 
anchors. 
~FiSHES. — At a meeting of the Biological Society of Washing- 
ton, Dec. 1, 1888, Dr. Gill made some remarks on the Psychroluti- 
dffi, a small family of fishes established by Dr. Giinther on a speci- 
men found in the Gulf of Georgia. Later, another species found 
in New Zealand was referred to the same family, and a third 
was recorded from Patagonia. There seems little reason for mak- 
ing a new family for these three species. They probably belong 
to a section of the Cottidge. The occurrence of species in New 
Zealand and in South America is interesting, inasmuch as it shows 
representatives of the Cottid^ exist in the Southern as well as in 
the Northern hemisphere.— /o5. F. James. 
ENTOMOLOGY. 1 
On Preventing the Ravages of Wire-Worms.— In a recently 
published paper, ^ the editor of this department makes a preliminary 
report on an investigation of wire-worms, now in progress. In the 
course of this investigation a method of combating these pests has 
been devised which promises to be of considerable importance. 
At the beginning of our study of wire-worms, experiments were 
tried to ascertain if it were practicable to protect the seed and young 
» Bull. Cornell Univ. Agr'l Exp. Station, iii., pp. 31-39. 
