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Ehrlich: Biting midge
Vol.16: no.l
I would like to thank Dr. W. W. Wirth for identifying the midge, and Mr. Martin A. Mortenson tor taking the photographs. This work was done while the author was at the Southwestern Research Station of The American Museum of Natural History, and was supported by Grant No. G-14740 from the National Science Foundation.
Reference
Wirth, Willis W., 1956. New species and records of biting midges ectoparasitic on insects (Diptera, Heleidae). Ann. ent. soc. Amer. 49: 356-364.
Div. of Systematic Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., U. S. A.
QUIA PARA EL ENTOMOLOGO PRINCIPIANTE. [Guide for the beginning entomologist; in Spanish.] By Kenneth J. Hayward. 1961. 168 pp., 7 pis. Institute Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucu-man. Argentina, Miscelanea, No. 22. Available from the Institute for $3.00 USA.
This is a manual of entomological procedure aimed at beginners in the study of insects. These are discussions of the morphology and classification, of collecting techniques, and of the orders of insects. Professor Hayward recognizes 34 orders. This is a larger number than seems ideal in the light of recent work, and especially good grounds exist for reducing to infra-ordinal status his Phasmida, Diploglossata, Megaloptera, and Raphidiodea. Probably the Isoptera should stand next to the Blattaria, and in the Apterygota the Collembola should be listed first (or better eliminated from the Insecta), Protura second, Entotrophi third, and Thysanura last; Thysanura are by far the closest to the Pterygota, and Collembola and Protura by far the most remote. But these old classificatory points are common to many current general texts, and the work under review cannot be singled out for them. Spanish-speaking insect collectors needing a beginner's guide will find this work valuable.
Charles L. Remington Dept. of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., U. S. A.