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lines. Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby ; B and C in Nova Scotia by 

 Capt. Hall. 



[154.] Body of a lovely brilliant green, punctured underneath with a 

 few pale hairs. Head confidently punctured : antennae bronzed ; vertex 

 channelled : prothorax transverse marked before the middle with two 

 transverse impressions, and another just above the scutellum ; grossly 

 punctured : elytra furrowed ; furrows thickly punctured ; interstices con- 

 vex with fewer punctures ; apex truncated with the angles terminating in a 

 short point ; beyond the middle of the elytrum is a rather broad, especially 

 next the suture, wavy orange band surrounded by a dusky blotch ; beyond 

 this and near the apex is another oblique abbreviated little band of the 

 same colour. 



Variety B. Smaller with the bands paler and narrower. 



C. With only a single band narrowest next the suture : pro- 

 thorax without the anterior impressions. [Quite common in many parts 

 of Canada, in al lits variations. We found it abundant at Credit, Ont., 

 but quite rare at Cobourg and Port Hope. Le Conte (he. eit.) states 

 that it is " not rare, especially in the Northern portions of the Atlantic 

 States ; varies in colour from green to blue, and also in the size of the 

 markings of the elytra. The tip of the abdomen of the % is truncate ; 

 in the <J it is truncate and bisinuate : the anterior tibiae are simple.'' 

 Belongs to Anev/oe/iira.] 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of the State of Illinois. By 

 W. Le Baron, M. D., State Entomologist. Springfield, 111., 187 1. We 

 have been favoured by Mr. Le Baron — the successor of the much la- 

 mented Mr. Walsh — with a copy of his first Report as State Entomologist 

 we trust that it is the precursor of a long series during years to come. 

 After some introductory remarks, the author takes up for consideration 

 Insects injurious to the Apple, Pear and Plum trees, the Grape-vine, the 

 Currant, the Potato, the Rose, and the Pine. Among the first mentioned, 

 he describes a new species, " The Lesser Apple Leaf-folder" (Tortrix 

 mativorana), which appears to have been excessively destructive in the 

 neighbourhood of Lacon, 111.; and gives a full account of the beneficial 

 labours of a Chalcis fly, parasitic upon the Apple Bark-louse. Another 



