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824 t’S YCtt.E. [February I899.

enabled them to issue a work of the liveliestinterest and importance. It should stir

many another to like industry. The habitsof some twenty-two genera, often of severalspecies under each, are studied, and even

their individual idiosyncracies in many casesdiscovered and related. The illustrationsadd much to the value of the book, but theinspiring example of faithful work is its

chief merit.Mr. W. F. Kirby of the British Museum

has just issued a little book, entitled Marvelsof Ant Life (London, S. W. Partridge & Co).Although a compilation and so lacking thespirit of the work of an original observer, it

is very well compiled, and in the short spaceof I74 pages covers sixteen chapters in theseparate consideration of ants as architects,agriculturists, mushroom-growers, hunters,honey-pots; cattle-keepers, slaveholders,soldiers, etc., and culls from the abundantbut widely scattered literature the bestinstances that can be given, and which are

put together with skill. A general bibliog-raphy is appended, in which we miss Forel’sextended paper on ants’ nests, published inZurich in I893, and translated for the Smith-sonian Report of I894.

Chancellor W. J. Holland’s Butterfly Book(New York, Doubleday and McClure Co.), isa popular gnide to North American but-terflies, and has its special value from illus-trating in color some five hundred specieswith 75 figures. They are "three-colorprints," and are astonishingly accurate repro-ductions from nature to the minutest detail,

surpassing the best chromolithographs andonly occasionally falling short, where the

registry is imperfect or the original speci-mens are not altogether satisfactory Nature,not a draughtsman, does the work for coloras well as pattern. The work will add

greatly to the interest of the butterfly col-lector, for it is published at the extraordin-

arily low price of three dollars, and figuresmost of our species north of, Mexico. Weare disappointed to find the life historiesignored.

STATE ENTOMOLOGIST OF NEW YORK.-The Country Gentleman states that the re-

gents of the University of New York have ap-pointed Ephraim Porter Felt, state entomol-

ogist, a previous appointment by the gover-nor having proved to be without authorityin law.

Guide to the Genera and Classification of the Orthoptera of North America

north of Mexico. By SAMUV-L H. SCUDDER. 9 pp. 8Contains keys for the determination of the higher groups as well as the

(nearly 200)genera of our Orthoptera, with full bibliographical aids to furtherstudy. Sent by mail on receipt of price ($.oo).

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