140 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Eighth Annual Report of the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of 

 the State of Missouri, by C. V. Riley, State Entomologist. 



We are much indebted to Mr. Riley for a copy of this valuable work. 

 It is got up in the usual excellent style of these Reports, 8vo., 190 p.. 

 illustrated with fifty-five excellent wood engravings. 



The Report opens with some notes on the Colorado Potato Beetle, 

 followed by articles on Canker Worms, the Army Worm, the Rocky 

 Mountain Locust, the Grape Phylloxera and the Yucca Borer. These 

 articles abound with practical information and suggestions, making the 

 work a very valuable one to the intelligent agriculturist as well as to the 

 entomological student. It would be difficult to estimate the immense 

 good which these eight reports have accomplished, diffusing practical 

 information of the greatest value to the farmer and fruit grower, as well 

 as settling many scientific points of much interest to entomologists. The 

 State of Missouri deserves great credit for her enlightened liberality 

 in supplying the means to enable Mr. Riley to devote himself 

 entirely to this good work, and we believe it will abundantly repay its 

 cost to the State itself in a material way by the saving of grain and fruits 

 from insect destruction, while at the same time it disseminates a knowledge 

 on the subjects treated of over the entire length and breadth of the land. 



On Some Insect Deformities, by Dr. H. A. Hagen. Memoirs of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass., 

 4to 24 p., with one lithograph plate. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Agassiz and Dr. Hagen, we have 

 received a copy of the above interesting paper, in which the following 

 subjects are treated of: Perfect Insects with the Larval Head, and Pre- 

 cocious Development of the Caterpillar. 



Synonymic List of the Butterflies of America, North of Mexico, by 

 Samuel H. Scudder, Cambridge, Mass., from the Bull. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., 

 8vo., 32 pp. 



Fossil Foraminifera of Sumatra, by Henry B. Brady, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 &c, 8vo., 8 pp., with two excellent lithographic plates. From the Geo- 

 logical Magazine, London, Eng. 



