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The first work on our list is : — 



The Butterflies of North America. By W. H. Edwards. Third 

 Series, Part XL, 4to. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass. 

 The second part of the new series of this superb work contains the 

 usual three exquisitely finished coloured plates of butterflies. The first 

 illustrates the Californian Colias Harfordii Hy. Edwards, and its variety 

 Barbara, giving no less than nine pictures of the imagines, and more than a 

 dozen of the earlier stages ; the second Argyiinis Coronis Behr., giving 

 both the upper and under surfaces of the male and female of this beauti- 

 ful Californian species, which extends northward as far as our own North- 

 west Territory, where it has been taken by Capt. Gamble Geddes ; the 

 third plate fully illustrates all the stages of Neonympha Gemma Hubn. 

 and N. Heiishawi Edw. There is the usual letter-press description of 

 all the species figured, and also a notice of Argyimis Callippe Boisd. It 

 is hardly necessary to add that no Lepidopterist's library can be con- 

 sidered complete without a copy of this admirable work. 



Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm 

 Pests during the year 1886, with Methods of Prevention and 

 Remedy. By Eleanor A. Ormerod, 8vo., 112 pages. London: 

 Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 

 We must congratulate our esteemed friend upon the publication of her 

 Tenth Report. It is full of interesting matter and well illustrated with 

 excellent wood-cuts, chiefly the work of the talented authoress. The 

 principal noxious insects treated of are " Earwigs " affecting cabbage — a 

 pest that we are happily free from in this country ; Clover Weevils, the 

 Hessian Fly and other wheat insects, the Hop Aphis, Mustard Beetles, 

 the Horse and Ox Warble-flies, etc. Economic Entomologists everywhere 

 may learn much from these pages ; though the insects treated of are for 

 the most part British, many of them have been transported to this side of 

 the Atlantic and to other distant regions, where they have wrought incal- 

 culable damage to crops of various kinds. 



Synopsis of the Hvmenoptera of America, North of Mexico. By 

 E. T. Cresson. Part i. Families and Genera. 8vo., 154 pages. 



This valuable work, published as a supplementary volume by the 

 American Entomological Society in Philadelphia, is a very much needed 

 contribution to the literature of this difficult order of insects. With this 



