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the hind wings is more pinkish, like Arizonae (a species totally distinct in 

 the color and markings of the primaries), and brighter than in elocata, not 

 like unijuga, where it is less pinkish and more like parta. My specimen 

 of Walshii expands 82 m. m. j elocata averages about 78 m. m. The 

 band in the European nupta on the hind wings is abbreviate, discontinued, 

 broad and angulated or elbowed, hence very different from our American 

 Arizonae, Meskei and Walshii, in which, though discontinued, it is not 

 angulated, but is narrower, hardly constricted and straighter and longer. 

 Although, judging by the fore wings alone, we should set down Walshii as 

 " representing " elocata in America, the very different hind wings separate 

 the two species very clearly. Perhaps unijuga is more like elocata in the 

 hind wings, and Walshii in the appearance of the primaries ; hence the 

 European elocata seems a compound of both of our species. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Fifth Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the 

 State of Missouri. By C. V. Riley, State Entomologist. 



This valuable report, consisting of 160 pages, 8vo., is full of interest 

 to the agriculturist as well as the entomologist, detailing as it does the 

 habits and history of many of the foes which the farmer and fruit-grower 

 is obliged to fight It opens with a chapter on collecting, studying and 

 preserving insects, which is followed by one on noxious insects — notes of 

 the year. In this latter, among other interesting matters, a discovery is 

 announced which will probably prove to be a very important one, that of 

 the finding of two parasitic insects which attack the worm of the Codling 

 Moth. One of these Pimpla amiulipes is said to have been common in 

 the West during last year, Mr. Riley having obtained 2 1 parasites from 

 162 cocoons of the Codling Moth. 



A large space is devoted to the Grape Phylloxera, an insect whose 

 ravages, especially in Europe, appear to be exciting increased comment ; 

 it is one also to which Mr. Riley has paid special attention. Further 

 observations on the Oyster Shell Bark Louse are recorded, also on the 

 Pine Leaf Scale Insect. Following these are chapters on " Eggs in and 

 on Canes and Twigs," " Stinging Larvce," " The Goat-weed Butterfly," 



