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that its life history is not known. I am not aware that the habits of this 

 beautiful little Buprestid have since been published, and as I have reared 

 two fully developed specimens from the larvge, I think it may be of interest 

 to the readers of the Entomologist to know the life history so far as I 

 have been able to determine it. 



Last Oct., while collecting leaf-miners from not less than twenty dif- 

 ferent trees and shrubs at the Michigan Agricultural College, I took two 

 poplar leaves from which I got, to-day, the two beetles above mentioned. 

 The following is the description of one of the larvje made at the time 

 they were taken : 



Mining the leaves of our common poplar next to the upper surface. 

 A whitish larva 9 m.m. long, broadest at head and gradually tapering to 

 the tail. Jaws brown and first joint back of head with brown rectangular 

 plates above and below. The anal end with a small black spine extending 

 back which is used by the larva in pushing itself forward. Larva quite 

 flat and segments deeply notched. 



B. ovata Web. — A leaf of either the red or black oak containing a 



leaf-miner was taken at the same time, and from this I got B. ovata less 



than a week ago. No description of the larva was made. 



C. P. Gillette. 

 Michigan Agricultural College, May 7th, 1887. 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 Rhopalocera Malayana : A Description of the Butterflies of the Malay 



Peninsula. By W. L. Distant. London, 1882-86, 4°, 16; 486 p., 



46 plates 

 A short time ago we called attention to a work in progress on the 

 Butterflies of India. Immediately thereafter there came to hand the final 

 part of another notable work on the butterflies of a region still nearer our 

 antipodes — the Malay Peninsula. In ^this instance the work was under- 

 taken by the author under peculiarly favorable circumstances, inasmuch 

 as all pecuniary anxiety was removed by the appearance of a Maecenas in 

 the person of Mr. D. Logan, of Penang, to whom all credit is due by 

 naturalists the world over, not only for the generous way in which he has 

 allowed the work to be gotten up and illustrated, but for his excellent 

 choice of an author. For Mr. Distant, on his side, has performed his task 



