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it dexterously fashions into a girth around the middle, and thus supported 

 finally turns into a chrysalis. This is pale green or whitish, finely and 

 regularly speckled with black, and in shape much resembles that of P. 

 rapGRy of which an illustration will be hereafter given. In summer the 

 chrysalis state lasts only a week or ten days, but in the case of the 

 autumn brood the insect remains in this condition ail winter and only 

 comes forth as a Butterfly in the April or May following. . 



REVIEWS. 



Contributions to Entomology* from the State of New York. 

 — Two works of value on the life history of various insects taken in the 

 neighbouring State of New York, are before us ; both of them emanate 

 from official sources, and singularly enough, both appeared but a few 

 months ago, though the Reports to which they belong have reference to 

 the year 1869. The first to which we would draw attention is entitled 

 " Entomological Contributions," by Mr. J. A. Lintner.* It contains 

 a remarkably elaborate description of the metamorphoses and whole life 

 history of the handsome but rare moth Hemilenca Maia, Drury, occupying 

 nearly twenty pages, accompanied by a lithographed plate of egg, chry- 

 salis and imago, and constituting an excellent monograph of the species. 

 This is followed by interesting observations upon various stages in the life 

 of the butterflies Melit&a PJuiton, Fab., M. Nycteis, Doubl.. and Pieris 

 Oleracea, Harris. The author then describes, with illustrations, three new 

 species of Nisoniadcs, named Iceius, Lucilius and Ausonius ; and a new 

 Sphinx, Ellcma pineum, which will probably be found in Canada, if it be 

 not already in some of our collections under the name of E. Harrisii — a 

 closely allied species. A list of forty species of Sphingidae, another of 

 over a hundred butterflies, and calendars of butterflies and moths, com- 

 plete the author's observations. To these he has appended a very useful 

 list, with references to volume and page, of all the North American moths, 

 some 600 in number, described in Guenee's Species General des Lepidop- 

 tcres. The volume is concluded by a translation from the German of a 

 paper by Dr. Speyer on Cucullia i;ifermedia,Spey., and C. lucifuga, W. V., 

 to which Mr. Lintner has prefixed some notes on the larvae. We have 

 given a full account of the contents of this volume in order that the 

 student may know where to look for very valuable contributions to our 



* Entomological Contributions, by J. A. Lintner. From the twenty-third Annual 

 Report of the New York State Cabinet of Natural History, for the year 1869. 8vo., 

 pp, 90. 



