book is thus avoided, and Mr. Shand alternately amuses and instructs the reader until he leaves him with the following quotation from a letter of Sydney Smith to Canon Barham :"Many thanks, my dear sir, for your kind present of game. If there is a pure and elevated pleasure in this world it is that of roast pheasant and bread sauce; barn-door fowls for dissenters, but for real churchman, the thirty-nine-times-articled clerk, the pheasant! the pheasant!" A Preliminary List of the Hemiptera of Colorado. By C. P. GILLETTE and CARL F. BAKER. 8vo, pp. 137. Fort Collins, Colorado. 1895. THE amount of good entomological work which is being done in America is simply astonishing. While entomologists in this country are still trifling with popular books on Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, the Americans are energetically working out the insect fauna of their continent, and not only in the more showy orders of insects. 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