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HOOK NOTICES. 

 First Annual Report of the Injurious and other Insects of the State of 



New York ; by J. A. I,intner, State Entomologist; large 8vo. 



This very complete and methodical report, by Prof. Lintner, occupies 

 382 pages, and is illustrated with 84. cuts. The volume opens with a 

 copious table of contents, followed by a chapter on the importance of the 

 study of Entomology, in view of the extent of insect depredations, and 

 the immense losses insects occasion. The progress which has been made 

 in Economic Entomology is then reviewed, and the writings of the chief 

 workers in this field referred to, following which the various insect 

 remedies and the best methods of using them are fully detailed. Preven- 

 tives of insect depredations are next noticed, including the use of odorous 

 substances to deter insects from depositing their eggs on plants and trees, 

 as well as various mechanical contrivances employed for the same purpose. 



Among injurious insect^i, those belonging to the order Lepidoptera are 

 first taken up. They are : — The bag or basket worm, Thyridopteryx 

 ephenicrceformis ; the larch lappet, Tolype laricis; the bronze-colored 

 cut worm, Nephelodes violans ; the stalk-borer, Goi'tyiia nitela ; the corn- 

 worm, Heliothis armiger ; the vagabond crambus, Crainbus vulgivagellus ; 

 the dried crambus, Crai>ibus exsiccatus ; the peach-twig moth, Anarsia 

 lineatella ; the apple-leaf Bucculatrix, Bucculatrix pomifoliclla ; and the 

 apple-tree case-bearer, Coleopho7-a malivorella. The insects belonging to 

 the Dipterous order are next noticed, beginning with some species of 

 Anthomyiidae, next the Syrphida^, Drosophihdae, concluding with the 

 wheat-stem maggot, Merotnyza Aincrieana. Those coleopterous insects 

 which are injurious are then treated of in the following order : The rose- 

 beetle, Macrodactyhis siibspinosus ; the Indian Cetonia, Euphoria Inda; 

 the asparagus beetle, Crioceris asparagi ; the punctured clover-leaf weevil, 

 Phytonomiis punctatus  and the sculptured corn-curculio, Sphciiphorus 

 sculptilis. 



Injurious msects belonging to the order Hemiptera next claim atten- 

 tion, when the life histories of the harlequin cabbage-bug, iWurantia his- 

 trionica ; the four-lined leaf-bug, Foecilocapsus litieatus, and the two- 

 marked tree-hopper, Eiichenopa binotata, are given. Throughout the 

 whole of this valuable report the species referred to are freely illustrated 

 with excellent figures, and the text conveniently arranged in separate 

 paragraphs with suitable headings. 



The report closes with an Appendix, which contains a full account of 



