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of Pompilus of enlarging its nest to accommodate an unusually large 
spider, and of Ammophiles in seizing a small pebble in its mandible 
and pounding down the earth over the opening to its nest, would all 
come under the second group. 
In summing up the chapter on the instinct and intelligence of 
wasps, the authors who have so entertainingly presented the facts, 
leave it largely to the reader “to determine whether the wasps are 
wiser than they seem or seem wiser than they are. 
GC. Wi]. 
Trouessarts' Catalogus Mammalium, Supplement.! — The great 
activity of the last few years in discovering and describing new spe- 
cies of mammals, living and fossil, has necessitated the preparation 
of a *quinquennial supplement" to include changes and additions 
made since the publication of the 1897 catalogue. The first three 
fascicles of this supplement list the known living and fossil Primates, 
Prosimiz, Chiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora (Fasc. 1) ; the Rodentia 
(Fasc. 2); the Tillodontia, Ungulata, and Sirenia (Fasc. 3). The 
fourth fascicle will conclude the work and will contain an index. In 
the preface the author states that the present supplement is intended 
to summarize the state of our knowledge on this subject to date of 
January 1, 1903, though in fascicle 3 certain new genera and species 
described in 1904, are included without explanation, e. g., Nesohippus 
Amegh. (p.635). In addition to listing the new forms, all the species 
noted in the edition of 1897-99 are given in their proper place, 
each with its serial number, but instead of the list of references fol- 
lowing, there is added simply a number referring to the full quota- 
tions for the species given in the former list, in cases where no 
change has been made. A new feature introduced in the present 
supplement is the citation of the full reference in case of generic 
and subgeneric names. Footnotes and explanatory remarks are in 
French, not in Latin as in the previous edition. 
In general the compiler has made no attempt at revisionary work 
so far as concerns specific determinations, but some care has been 
used in replacing unavailable generic and subgeneric names with 
new or later ones. ‘Thus, in including Matschie's revision of the 
anthropoid apes, Trouessart does not repeat that author's error of 
!Trouessart, E. L. Catalogus Mammalium tam Viventium quam Fossilium. 
nd Supplementum, Anno 1904. — R. Friedlánder & Sohn, 1904- 
905. Fasc. 1-3, 8vo, iv + 752 pp. 12 Mk. perf 
