THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 79 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Lepidoptera Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, by H. Strecker. 



Part 14 of Mr. Strecker's work reached us by mail on the 28th of 

 March, and on enquiry, we find that other subscribers received it within 

 a day or two of that date. We desire to call particular attention to this 

 fact, as this part of the work, in which a number of species are described 

 as new, bears the date of 1877. In Dr. Hayden's last report Mr. S. H. 

 Scudder describes a Satyrus larger than Ridin;sii, and like it, from Utah, 

 as dionysius, which seems to be identical with Mr. Strecker's ashtaroth. 

 Mr. Strecker's M. imitata is also doubtless a synonym of Ulrica Edwards, 

 C. E., v. 9, p. 189, his M. larunda the same as dymas Edwards, C. E., v. 

 9, p. 190, his Pamphila similis Edwards' Amblyscirtes nysa, C. E., v. 9, p. 

 191, and his Charts Guadeloupe identical with C. australis Edwards, Field 

 and Forest, Nov., 1877. 



It is somewhat singular that Mr. Strecker, who in his work so often 

 expresses his abhorrence of the practice of creating synonyms, and who 

 has not hesitated to heap abuse on the heads of those whom he considers 

 to have fallen into such errors, that he should himself so grievously err in 

 this respect. The dating of a work of this sort 1877, which does not 

 appear until March, 1878, can scarcely be called honest, especially if it 

 be done with the view of establishing a claim for priority in the descrip- 

 tions of species. We would also here take the opportunity of expressing 

 our regret that Mr. Strecker's work, which in some respects has much to com- 

 mend it, should be marred by such gross personal abuse as he so frequently 

 indulges in. Such low and ungentlemanly language is entirely unworthy 

 of any one aspiring to the humblest position in the scientific world, and 

 can only result in injury to himself. 



Entomological Collecting Tour. — Mr. Wm. Couper, of Montreal, 

 purposes visiting again the Lower St. Lawrence on a collecting tour this 

 summer. He leaves on the 10th of May, and expects to return about the 

 end of July. Parties wishing to correspond with him while absent will 

 address their letters to Godbout River, Province Quebec, via Rimouski. 

 This will be Mr. Couper's fourth collecting tour along the coast and 

 among the islands of the St. Lawrence. 



