1911] The Ottawa Naturalist. 207 



BOOK NOTICES. 



A List of the Insects of New Jersey. By Dr. John B. 

 Smith, Professor of Entomology at Rutgers College, State 

 Entomologist and Entomologist to the Agricultural College 

 Experiment Station at New Brunswick, N.J. Annual Report 

 of the New Jersey State Museum, 1909; Trenton, N.J., 1910. 



This report, with the exception of 13 pages, is devoted to 

 Dr. Smith's new List of the Insects of New Jersey. It is now ten 

 years since a similar Hst was prepared by the same author, who 

 is one of our valued Corresponding Members, and who has always 

 been exceedingly helpful to Canadian students of insects, par- 

 ticularly those who study the Noctuidcs. The present list, which 

 has recently come to hand, is an extremely valuable pubhcation. 

 The book contains 888 pages, the printing and paper are good 

 and the many illustrations excellent. No less than 10,385 

 different species are listed, comprising 3,486 genera and 331 

 families. In the 1899 list 8,53 7 species were included. It will 

 thus be seen that considerable progress has been made in a 

 knowledge of the insects of the State of New Jersey. Ento- 

 mologists generally will be grateful to Dr. Smith for this extremely 

 useful contribution to the literature of American entomology. 

 Through the example which he has set in the preparation of these 

 New Jersey Lists of Insects, similar hsts are now in preparation 

 for other States in the Union, and in Canada a list of the in- 

 sects of the Province of Quebec is being prepared by members of 

 the Montreal Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario 

 and the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants from 

 Insects and Fungous Diseases, largely through the untiring 

 efforts of Messrs. A. F. Winn, G. Chagnon and J. M. Swaine. 



In the preparation of the new list. Dr. Smith has had the 

 assistance of many recognized specialists in the various orders. 

 Unfortunately the edition of the New Jersey State Museum 

 report is a very limited one, and it will be impossible to supply 

 everyone who will want this work with a copy. It is distributed 

 by the Curator of the Museum. Dr. Smith has, however, had 

 some extra copies printed, and the price has been fixed at $1.50 

 each. These copies will be available as long as this extra edition 

 lasts. 



We desire here to add our sincere appreciation of this recent 

 result of Dr. Smith's labours. May our esteemed Corresponding 

 Member be spared many years to continue the good work he is 

 doing for the advancement of appUed and systematic ento- 

 mology in America. 



A. G. 



