44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Among the Moths and Butterflies : By Julia P. Ballard. G. P. 

 Putnam's Sons, New York, 1890 ; pp. 237. 



This beautiful book is an enlarged and revised edition of " Insect 

 Lives," published 1880, and contains recent studies and many additional 

 illustrations. It treats especially of rearing butterflies, sphinges and moths 

 from the caterpillars, and is based wholly on the personal observations of 

 the author. Without previous knowledge of entomology, Mrs. Ballard 

 found herself attracted by some species of caterpillar, and followed it up 

 to pupa and imago, making original discoveries at every step, and gaining 

 experience day by day, and has become an expert in that line. Many of 

 the species treated of, if their early history is mentioned at all in books, 

 have never been so carefully studied as here ; witness the story of the 

 great Leopard Moth, the Bulrush Caterpillar, the Moukey-faced Moth, 

 the Beechnut Box, the Rosy Dryocaftipa. Of many others, better known 

 than these, are interesting notes, as Orgyia leucostigma, Deilephila lineata, 

 Ceratocampa regalis. The enthusiasm of the author is contagious, and 

 makes the reader wish that spring would hurry along. I do not know of any 

 book — certainly there is none in America — which has attempted to enter 

 upon the field now taken possession of by Mrs. Ballard. If any good pater, 

 or aunt, or cousin, wishes to do a kind turn to an active boy or girl, they 

 could not do better than put this book in the young person's hands, — at 

 the same time a net and collecting apparatus (which our good friend 

 John Akhurst will be happy to furnish), and bid them, when spring comes, 

 search the fields and woods as Mrs. Ballard has done. The difference 

 between eyes and no eyes is wonderful, and occupying the former will 

 keep young people out of mischief, at least giving them something to do 

 and to think of. Once let a boy put his foot over the threshold of this 

 temple of ours and catch a glimpse of the inner mystery, and there will 

 be no idle and wasted hours. And to this end the author of " Moths and 

 Butterflies " has well served her generation. Wm. H. Edwards. 



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