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species, and adding another, inusta, to the genus, both of these species 

 being native in South America. 



This being the synonymy of the two genera, we would retain Cirroidia 

 for our well known form. H. K. Morrison, Cambrids:,^e, Mass. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Manuscript Notes from my Journal, or Illustrations of Insects, Native 

 and Foreign Diptera, by Townend Glover, Washington, 1^. C. 



\\'e sincerely thank the author of this valuable work for his great 

 kindness in placing us on the list of the favored few among whom the 

 first small edition of forty-five copies of the above work has been dis- 

 tributed. This work is unicjue in several respects. It is a fac simile of 

 the author s own note book on this family of insects, written by the author 

 himself on prepared paper, then transferred to stone and printed on a 

 lithographic press. The costliness of the paper required for this purpose 

 -and the fact that it can only be used on one side, adds much to the 

 expense of issuing this work, which expense has been borne entirely by 

 the author. Such generosity and disinterestedness in the interests of our 

 favorite science is deserving of the highest commendation. 

 « The work is published in quarto form, and opens with three pages of 

 introductory matter, followed by thirteen plates, containing no less than 

 480 excellent illustrations of Dipterous insects in their various stages, or 

 of parts of these insects, accompanied by suitable explanatory lists of 

 names, &c. The labor on these plates alone, all of which is the work 

 of this pains-taking and laborious Entomologist, is something enormous, 

 and this, to our knowledge, is but a fraction of the work he has accom- 

 plished in this department during the past few years. The next 59 pages 

 are occupied by an alphabetical list of the families and genera of Diptera, 

 with synonyms, habitat, food, &c. Then a list of predaceous or parasitic 

 Diptera ; vegetable and animal substances inhabited, injured or destroyed 

 by Diptera, &c., &c. A valuable practical portion of the work is the 

 enumeration and description of \arious remedies which have been 

 ■suggested to guard against the injuries caused by these insects. Each 

 division of the work throughout is arranged alphabetically and in the most 

 convenient manner, so as to enable the student to refer readily to any, 

 portion he may desire. 



Notices of other books received will appear in our next. 



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