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very well be studied by college students and others taking a course in 

 entomology ; it will be found much simpler and easier to work through 

 than Dr. Packard's larger and more elaborate treatise, but it will not be 

 found of any use in the classification and identification of specimens, like 

 Prof. Comstock's' Manual, as this is not its object. Throughout the 

 whole, it may be mentioned, the reader will observe its author's evidently 

 strong views on the theory of evolution. 



New Species of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Herman Strecker has recently published the second part of the 

 Supplement to his " Lepidoptera : Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, 

 indigenous and exotic." It contains descriptions of three new species 

 of butterflies and fifty moths ; the former and a few of the moths are 

 from regions outside the faunal limits of the United States and Canada. 

 Two species are distinctively Canadian : Therina fatuaria from Mont- 

 real and Ochyria Anticostiata from the island of .Anticosti. These 

 Supplements will be quite as necessary to the student of Lepidoptera 

 as the original work. They may be obtained from the author, P. O. Box 

 311, Reading, Penna. (Price, 25 cents each.) 



Flashlights on Nature. — By Grant Allen : illustrated by Frederick 

 Enock. Toronto: William Briggs, 29 Richmond Street West. (Price, 

 70 cents.) 312 pages. 



Mr. Grant Allen's versatility as a writer is well known, but whatever 

 opinion may be formed regarding his novels and tales of fiction, there can 

 be no question that few authors can be compared with him when he 

 devotes himself to natural-history subjects. His papers show that he 

 must be a most minute and painstaking student of the wonders of plant 

 and animal life, while at the same time his literary skill enables him to 

 describe what he has seen and studied in a most charming manner and 

 without any loss of scientific precision. He has also the able assistance 

 of Mr. Enock, who is a well-known entomologist, and who evidently aids 

 the author not only with his beautiful drawings, but with his careful 

 observations as well. Most, if not all, of the papers in the volume before 

 us have already appeared in the pages of a widely-circulated magazine, 

 but they are well worthy of reproduction in this more permanent and 

 convenient form. They treat of insects, birds, and plants, under such 

 titles as the Cows that Ants Milk, a Plant that Melts Ice, a Beast of Prey 



