20 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



The Butterfly Book. — A jiopular Guide to a knowledge of the Buiter- 

 fiies of North America. By W. J. Holland, D. D., Chancellor ol tiie 

 Western University of Pennsylvania, etc., Pittsburg, Pa. : i vol., 410., 

 pp. 383. 



[Price, $3.00, postage prepaid. Copies may be procured from ihe 

 author, or William Briggs, 29-33 Richmond Street West, Toronto.] 



It is with great jjleasure that we announce the publication of this 

 beautiful popular work on the Butterflies of North America. Hitherto 

 the vast number of young people who begin collecting insects have had 

 their enthusiasm sorely chilled by their inability to tind names for their 

 specimens, and have in consequence soon given up the pursuit in despair. 

 Now there need be no difficulty as far as the butterflies are concerned. 

 In the handsome volume before us there are no less than forty-eight 

 beautiful coloured plates, produced by a new ])rocess from photographic 

 representations of specimens from the author's cabinets, and on them are 

 depicted over a thousand butterflies, belonging to 527 species. J'he 

 colours are remarkably true to nature, and a child should have no 

 difficulty in identifying any specimen that he may cajjture from the plates 

 alone. In the letterpress brief descriptions are given, first of the char- 

 acteristics of the genus in all its stages, with a wood-cut showing the 

 neuration, and then of each species, setting forth the colours and 

 markings, size, etc., of the butterfly, the early stages where known, and 

 the geographical distribution ; references are also given to the works of 

 Edwards, Scudder, and other authors, where fuller information can be 

 obtained. As an introduction to the work, illustrated chapters describe 

 in a popular and interesting manner the life-history and anatomy of 

 butterflies, how to capture, prepare and preserve specimens, their 

 classification and the principal books that have been published upon 

 them in North America. Interspersed through the volume are short 

 papers, for the most part of an amusing character, in which the author 

 varies the monotony of descriptive matter by telling some of his experi- 

 ences or relating some interesting facts regarding these beautiful creatures. 

 We heartily commend the work to our readers, and earnestly ho|)e ihat it 

 may become widely distributed amongst all lovers of nature throughout 

 North America. 



.Mailed Janu.iry iSth, 1S99. 



