C. T. Brues.
[Review of] "A monographic revision of the winged insects comprising the order Strepsiptera" by W. Dwight Pierce.
Psyche 17(2):81-82, 1910.

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so constructed as to allow considerable movement in a vertical plane, and even a folding-over of the end-sections on the middle ones for convenience in transportation. Such a machine can be readily made by a handy blacksmith, or a substitute therefor may be built of boards by any farmer, the principle remaining the same, The front and rear edges of the iron plates should be stiffened with iron rods, and the front edge sho~dd be about two inches from the ground. The runners should be of such form as to pass over minor obstructions on the ground and to permit movement backwards, for convenience. Such a machine, properly coated with "Tree anglefo foot" and drawn by a horse over pasture and mowing-lands during the early stages of development of the 'hoppers would capture them in large quantities, and in addition destroy myriads of leaf-hoppers (Jassidae), spittle-insects (Cercopidae), plant-bugs (Capsidae), and other grass- and grain-inhabiting insects.
~ ~ 0 ~ 0 ~ 1 ~ ~ 1 ~ ~ 1 ~ RE\ ISION OF THE rhr~~~~~ I~INGED INSECTS CO~IPRISING THE ORDER STREPSIPTERA KIRRY. By W. Dwight Pierce, Bull. U. S. Nat. &!us., No. 66, pp. 232, PIS. 15; figs. 4. (Dec. 1909.)
This extenshe contribution represents the first attempt made to gather together and correlate the considerable amount of scattered information at present available concerning this most aberrant and interesting group of insects, and in addition it contains a large amount of new matter, relating principally to the North -4merican members of the order.
The Strepsiptera are regarded as an order, a view which will prob- ably receive the endorsement of other workers, although there are some surh striking sindarities between them and Rhipiphorid Coleop- tera that it is diEcult to regard them with Pierce as more closely related to the Hymenoptera and Diptera. One point upon which much stress is laid, the presence of the group in Baltic amber of Tertiary age, cannot carry conviction, for we know that in other specialized orders many amber species are almost indistinguishable from living ones. Following his preliminary classification of the Strepsiptera pub- lished in 1908 the author divides the order into four superfainilies 1 A Preliminary Review of the Classification of the Order Strepsiptera, Proc. Ent. SOC. Washington, Vol. IX, pp. 75-85.




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