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Society in July. Working, as did the author, at this single family 
for many years before issuing the catalogue, this is, as might 
have been expected from Professor Fernald’s well-known caution 
and ability, a work of exceptional value, and puts the study of 
the Tortricidæ in this country, at once upon a basis which it never 
had before. Not only are synonyms given with full references, 
but also the localities and food-plants, when known, though a 
number of these last which we have communicated to him are, for 
some reason, omitted. 
We may have.occasion to refer to this admirable catalogue in 
future, more to add some facts from our own experience than to 
offer any criticisms or suggestions ; for the work is so admirable 
in every respect that it leaves little to be desired. Like every 
other cataloguer, Professor Fernald has found some difficulty in 
deciding what to do with many of Hiibner’s names, most of which, 
for the good of science, ought to be entirely ignored. Professor 
Fernald, after fully discussing the matter in his own mind, has de- 
cided to adopt the uniform specific termination of ava, and not to 
make it correspond in gender to the generic name. Although we 
have adopted the opposite course (Trans. St. Louis Ac. Sci., Iv, p. 
317 ff.) it was rather against our judgment as stated at the time, 
and we think Professor Fernald has acted wisely. 
The third work is entitled a “ New Check-list of North Ameri- 
can Moths,” by Aug. R. Grote, president New York: Entomologi- 
cal Club. We wish we could speak as approvingly of this work as 
of the preceding, a condensed edition of which is included from ad- 
vanced sheets furnished by Professor Fernald. Mr. Grote’s list is 
more presumptuous than the Brooklyn list. The names are 
arranged in double column somewhat after the form of -Crotch’s 
list, already referred to, but without the advantage in this last of 
including the authority in parenthesis whenever the species was 
described under another genus than that with which it is now con- 
nected. The species in each family are independently numbered. 
While the typography and general make-up _of Mr. Grote’s 
list are all that could be desired (there is no indication as to 
publisher), it is marred by the author's accustomed looseness 
of statement and assertion. Within the space of a single page 
of the preface, we are treated to rambling thought anent eter- 
‘ities, deities, nature, matter, evolution, the universe, stars and 
suns, and to other matter in no way germane to a check-list of 
moths. Asserting on p. 7 his courtesy and fairness toward others, 
the list ends with a series of notes consisting chiefly of tirades 
i ae other entomologists, many of them including statements 
Which are unjust and untrue. _ ; 
. There are a number of errors of commission or omission which 
it would be tedious in this connection to point out. New genera 
are made with a few- words; some, hitherto abandoned, revived, 
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