The Flies of Western North America. F.R. Cole, with the collaboration of Evert I. Schlinger. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969. xi, 693 pp. $25.00.

Excerpt: Knowing of the excellence of the author\u27s work especially as an artist of Diptera, entomologists have been waiting for this much-needed volume since the completion of the first manuscript in 1932. The work deals with two-winged flies (Diptera) of North America west of the 104th meridian, south of the 70th parallel and north of Mexico, but including Baja California