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Rhagium lineatum Oliv. 

 Pachyta liturata Kirby. 

 Acmteops proteus Kirby. 

 Leptura chrysocoma Kirby. 

 Monohammus scutellatus Say. 

 Orsodacna atra Ahr. 

 Adoxus obscurus Li)in. [vitis Fab.]. 

 Lina lapponica Liim. 

 Gonioctena pallida Linn. 

 Upis ceramboides Linn. 

 Lepyrus colon Linn. 

 P.S. — Line i8, page 155, should read longulus Lee. [Gaurodytes]. 

 Y.F. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



THE PHYCITID.^ OF NORTH AMERICA, BY GEO. D. HULST. 



This valuable paper forms number 2, volume 17, of the Transactions 

 of the American Entomological Society. The author not only gives us 

 what has been done on this family by others, but also the results of his 

 own critical and long contmued study and investigation. 



He complains of difficulties in the study of these insects owing to the 

 fact that so many of the types are in European museums, and further, 

 that so many are in private collections. There may be some question 

 whether this last is not an advantage, for, as a rule, private collections 

 are more easily accessible than public ones, and the visitor is not ham- 

 pered by stringent rules. There is but little use to attempt the study of 

 microlepidoptera in a museum where the rules forbid the removal of an 

 insect from the trays, as is the case. in many. 



The Phycitida? are given family rank " in the super-family Pyralidse," 

 and after the family characters, the literature of the subject is quite fully 

 and very fairly given, which is always a difficult task. Mr. Hulst divides 

 the family into two sub-families, based on the presence or absence of the 

 lower anal plate, and differs from Ragonot, who divides them on the de- 

 velopement of the tongue. From my own studies I am inclined to agree 

 with Mr. Hulst. 



The structure of the imago is treated thoroughly and exhaustively^ 



