THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 179 



It opens with a chapter on Mermis acuminata, a parasite on the larva 

 of Carpocapsa pomonella ; then an admirable account of the life history 

 of the new Carpet Bug, Anthrenus scrophularice, with magnified illustra- 

 tions of the insect in its several stages ; following which are chapters on 

 Jsosoma vitis, the Lepidoptera of the Adirondack region of New York, 

 Collections of Noctuidae at sugar at Schenectady, on some Lepidoptera 

 common to the United States and Patagonia, on Lyccena Jieglecta, new 

 species of Californian Butterflies, on some species of Nisoniades ; descrip- 

 tions of new species of Centra, Xylina, Hypocala, Acidalia, Cidan'a, besides 

 a number of valuable notes on Lepidoptera illustrative of their life history 

 and habits and geographical distribution. Every subject is treated in the 

 author's usual thorough and systematic manner, and the work forms a 

 valuable addition to our constantly increasing Entomological literature. 



On the Tongue (Lingua) of some Hymenoptera, by V. '1'. Chambers. 

 From the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, April 

 1878 — 8vo., pp. 13. 



This paper is very interesting and instructive, and is intended as a 

 reply to the questions — What do bees eat? and How do they eat it ? An 

 illustration of a transverse section of a bee's tongue accompanies the 

 text. 



Manuscript Notes from My Journal : Cotton and the principal insects, 

 &c, frequenting or injuring the plant in the United States, by Townend 

 Glover. 



This excellent contribution to economic Entomology is published uni- 

 formly with the previous portions of " Manuscript Notes from My 

 Journal," reviewed in earlier numbers of the Can. Ent., that is, in quarto 

 form, the text written and etched by the author, and afterwards printed 

 from stone. The admirable plates, 22 in number, constitute in this 

 instance the most considerable portion of the work and illustrate not only 

 the insects which injure the cotton crop, but also certain forms of fungoid 

 disease to which the plant is subject. A work so instructive and useful 

 as this would be to those engaged in this important branch of Southern 

 agriculture should be widely circulated. The small edition published has 

 been got up at the author's own expense, who has distributed the copies 

 with the most liberal hand, free of any charge, among the libraries of the 

 various scientific societies in the country ; they are not, however, access- 



