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which are common to the north temperate zone ; that there are no ex- 

 tinct families ; and that the appearance of the same families and even 

 of the same groups of genera in the European and American tertiaries 

 is common, but of the same restricted genus very rare. 



Catalogue of the Insects of New Jersey.* — In a handsome volume of 

 485 pages Professor Smith has given us a list of all the insects which 

 are recorded from the State to which his labors have been recently 

 transferred. The catalogue is the result of only a few months' labor 

 and is confessedly very incomplete. In fact, as the author states, ex- 

 cept in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, New Jersey is practically unex- 

 plored, and even in the collected orders northern and northwestern 

 New Jersey are entirely unrepresented. The only general collection 

 the author was able to consult was that of Mr. M. S. Crane, of Cald- 

 well. We marvel at and admire the author's great industry, but feel 

 that in this case it has been prematurely applied and that further time 

 and collecting would have resulted in a catalogue more satisfactory to 

 himself and to entomologists generally. In its present shape it will be 

 of very slight avail to the student of faunal distribution, except, per- 

 haps, in the two orders above mentioned. Six thousand and ninety- 

 eight species are mentioned, of which 2,227 are beetles, 1,074 butter- 

 flies and moths, 1,140 Hymenopterous insects, and 811 two- winged flies, 

 the other five orders being very poorly represented. 



Economic Entomology in New South Wales.— The Government of New 

 South Wales has just begun the publication of a journal entitled The 

 Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, issued by direction of the 

 Hon. Sydney Smith, M. P., Secretary of Mines and Agriculture, the first 

 number of which was published in July of the present year. The 

 Director of Agriculture, Mr. H. O. L. Anderson, has sent us the open- 

 ing number, which is a very creditable pamphlet of 154 pages and in 

 which we are pleased to see that the subject of insect pests receives a 

 great deal of attention. Our esteemed correspondent, Mr. E. Sidney 

 Ollifit" contributes three articles to this number, entitled, respectively, 

 Insect Pests (a consideration of the Codling Moth and Apple-leaf 

 Roller), Insect Friends and Foes, and the Maize Caterpillar and Moth 

 {Heliothis armigera). The first and the last of these articles are each 

 illustrated by a well executed heliotype plate reproduced in part from 

 the reports of this Department, and, what with the work being done 

 by Mr. OUiff at Sydney, Mr. Crawford at Adelaide, Mr. Tryon at Bris- 

 bane, and Mr. French at Melbourne, the Australians are making rapid 

 advances on the practical side of entomological study. 



* Catalogue of insects found in New Jersey. By Prof. Jno. B. Smith. From the 

 final report of the State geologist, vol. ii, Trenton, 1890. 



