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concludes with an amazing bibliography which fills thirty-six pages and 

 includes 542 titles. This by itself would show the industry and thorough- 

 ness of the author and the pains he has taken to render his monograph 

 as perfect and complete as possible. Besides the four and twenty 

 carefully-drawn wood-cuts already referred to, the work is illustrated with 

 eight splendid coloured lithographic plates, on five of which are depicted 

 about 130 figures of the perfect moths, and on the remaining three, 

 specimens of the destructive work of the larvje in the trunks, limbs and 

 roots of trees and other plants. We heartily congratulate the author on 

 the successful completion of this grand work, and hope that he may be 

 able from time to time to present to the scientific world similar volumes 

 dealing with other groups and families of moths, many of which sorely 

 need the careful revision of a competent monographer. C. J. S. B. 



The Insect Book : A popular account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grass- 

 hoppers, Flies and other North American Insects, exclusive of the 

 Butterflies, Moths and Beetles, with full life-histories, tables and 

 bibliographies. — By Leland O. Howard, Ph. D. New York : Double- 

 day, Page & Co., 34 Union Square. One Vol., small 4to., pp. xxvii. 

 4- 429. (Price, $3 net.) 



Only last month we noticed Dr. Howard's book on Mosquitoes, and 

 now we have before us a larger and more important work by the same 

 author. It forms one of the series of "Nature Study" books, and is 

 consequently uniform in size and style with Dr. Holland's " The Butterfly 

 Book." The author describes in the title the scope and intention of the 

 work. He does not profess to cover the whole insect world, as Dr. 

 Holland is preparing to deal with the Moths as he has already done with 

 the Butterflies, and Dr. Howard looks to someone else to undertake a 

 popular work on the extensive order of Beetles. 



As stated at the outset, the book is meant to be " popular," and 

 therefore does not attempt the impossible task of describing ail the insects 

 belonging to the various orders treated of; at the same time, it does give 

 full and interesting accounts of a very large number of species, and relates 

 in an easy and agreeable manner all that the ordinary enquirer will wish 

 to know. Any observant person who picks up an insect that he has not 

 seen before, and wonders what it is and how it lives, will find an answer to 

 his questions here. In most cases he will find an accurate picture of the 

 specimen he is examining, and with very little trouble he will learn all he 



