THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. / / 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Record of American Entomology for the Year i8jo. Edited by A. S. 



Packard, Jr., M.D. Naturalists' Book Agency: Salem, 187 1. (8vo. 

 pp. 27. 50 cents.) 



We have recently received a copy of the " Record" for 1870. It is, 

 we regret to observe, less than half the size of the preceding issue ; but, 

 as the Editor observes, " we are not to infer that Entomology is on the 

 decline in America ; for there are many indications beneath the surface 

 that promise much for the future of this study." There are references 

 in this part to the notes or articles of thirty-five Entomologists, including 

 six Canadians and five others who have contributed to the pages of the 

 Canadian Entomologist, and to the descriptions of three hundred and 

 one nt\v species of North (and Central) American Insects that have been 

 published during the past year. We regret exceedingly to learn from Dr. 

 Packard that this useful publication is not being supported by American 

 Entomologists in any degree as it ought to be, and that, unless an im- 

 provement takes place, it must be discontinued. Up to July 22 only 

 three subscriptions had been received for the kt Record" of 1870! This 

 surely is a sad disgrace to the students of this branch of Natural His- 

 tory ; but we trust that the mere mention of it will be sufficient to cause 

 them to send in their subscriptions at once to the Naturalists' Book 

 Agency at Salem, and relieve the hard-working Editor of further pecu- 

 niary responsibility. The price of the present issue is only fifty cents, 

 while a complete set of the issues for 1868, 1869 and 1870 will he fur- 

 nished for the small sum of a dollar and a half. 



lli'ud Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Inserts of the 

 State of Missouri. By Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist. Jeffer- 

 son City : H. Willcox. 1871. (8vo. pp. 183.) 



The first sixty pages of this valuable Report are occupied by an elaborate 

 and most useful account of the species of Curculionidce that are very in- 

 jurious to fruits and vegetables, together with notices of their parasites 

 and the best means of combatting their ravages. Then follow descriptiens 

 of eleven different insects that are injurious to the grape-vine ; and notices 

 of the Colorado Potato Beetle, the Apple Codling Moth, the Corn-worm, 

 the Fall Army-worm, the Apple-tree and the Forest Tent Caterpillars, the 

 Fall Web-worm, the Blue-spangled Peach-worm, and the Ash-gray Pinion ; 

 a description of the Classy-winged Soldier-bug, a new friend to the grape- 



