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third segments have many h'ght brown hairs intermixed ; the bunches 

 below lateral fold are light brown, thus giving the larva the appearance of 

 being fringed; body beneath and abdominal legs light purplish brown. 

 Length, two inches. Pupa black, covered with white powdery bloom. 

 The eggs were very numerous and small and light yellow in colour. The 

 hairs of the larva possess stinging properties, and are very irritating to the 

 bare arms and face, as I experienced to my great annoyance on several 

 occasions. David Bruce, Brockport, N. Y. 



PLATYNUS NEW TO CANADA. 



Among the commoner beetles at Sydney, Cape Breton, if not indeed 

 the most abundant, is a species which has, I think, not been recorded in 

 Canadian lists. I refer to Platynus hardyi which was described by 

 Leconte (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Vol. XL, p. 53) from Newfoundland 

 specimens received by him from Baron de Chaudoir. I cannot find any 

 record of it from other localities. The specimens which I collected in 

 1884 were not carefully examined and were placed with P. cupripennis, of 

 which a few examples were collected at the same time. On looking over 

 the lot last winter I found that they were undoubtedly P. hardyi, and 

 last September I captured a nice series. The species is eminently gregari- 

 ous, and when a good locality is found they may be seen in numbers under 

 boards or loose stones, but the colonies scatter so rapidly that the majority 

 escape. Whether this beetle is distributed through, and indigenous to the 

 island, or has been brought over from Newfoundland in one of the numer- 

 ous steamers that carry coal from Sydney and return in ballast, I cannot 

 say. W. H. Harrington. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



manual of animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture. 

 Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, lecturer at the Agricultural College of Wageningen, 

 Holland, has just published a magnificent volume in German which 

 makes one wish English-speaking farmers and gardeners, as well as ento- 

 mologists, possessed in their own language, and for their respective coun- 

 tries, a similar compendium of knowledge on the " Animals injurious and 

 beneficial to agriculture, cattle breeding, forestry and horticulture." 

 (Tierische Shadlinge und Niitz/inge, Berlin, 1891.) 



