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ILLUSTRATIONS OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA with Descriptions. By An- 

 drew Gray Weeks, Jr. Second volume. University Press, Cambridge, 

 Mass. This work contains twenty-one beautiful and accurate illustra- 

 tions of new species lithographed in color. The species were taken in 

 the neighborhood of the Suapure River in Venezuela. Mr. Weeks 

 is to be congratulated on this excellent work as it is a valuable contri- 

 bution to the literature of exotic Rhopalocera. The frontispiece is an 

 engraved portrait of the late distinguished student of the butterflies, 

 Mr. William Henry Edwards. There is given a list of the writings of 

 Mr. Edwards and a list of the species received from Suapure. We 

 hope to see additional volumes by Mr. Weeks. If all new species were 

 illustrated in this way the study would be relieved of many difficulties. 



It may be well in this connection to call attention to the joint work 

 "Illustrations of North American Lepidoptera Sphingidae," by J. W. 

 Weidemeyer, S. Calverley and W. H. Edwards, published by the 

 American Entomological Society in 1903. H. S. 



A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, PHILADEL- 

 PHIA, 1859-1909. Prepared by request of the Society by E. T. Cresson 

 with an introduction by the Rev. Henry C. McCook, D.D., Philadelphia, 

 Pa. This pamphlet of sixty pages has been issued by the society whose 

 name and seal it bears on the title-page as a result of the meeting 

 held February 15, 1909, in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary. 

 At that meeting, Mr. E. T. Cresson, sole survivor of the three founders 

 of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, read a history of the 

 earlier years of its existence and then moved that a Committee be ap- 

 pointed to bring the history up-to-date. This action having been de- 

 cided on, Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook, Mr. Benjamin H. Smith and 

 Dr. Henry Skinner were charged with this duty, and the present 

 pamphlet is the result of their labors. Its contents are: an Introduc- 

 tion by Dr. McCook, the history of the Society, 1859-1909 (18 pages), 

 the proceedings of the fiftieth anniversary meeting, statements of the 

 contents of the Society's collections of insects and library, lists of the 

 names and terms of officers, a list of the past and present resident and 

 corresponding members, and a copy of the act of incorporation of the 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia by the Legislature of Pennsyl- 

 vania in 1862. (By action of the Court, this charter was on petition 

 amended in 1867, and the Society's name changed to "The American 

 Entomological Society"). The pamphlet is illustrated by three por- 

 traits those of Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, (died March 15, 1865), its early 

 and greatest benefactor; Dr. John L. LeConte (president 1859-60, 1870- 

 83), and Dr. George H. Horn (president 1867-68, 1884-97). 



