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the moths and their hirv.e which the beginner has difficulty in identifying. Fuur plates give 

 beautifully executed figures of 85 species, from drawings of E. L. Hyatt. 



Beutenmueller, Wm The Hawk-moths of the vicinity of New York City, pp. 31. — This is 

 another most useful pamphlet, which will be of inestimable value to beginners on account of 

 the particularly good illustrations which accomi^any the descriptions of each of Ihe 48 

 species mentioned. 



Fernald, Mrs. M. E. A Catalogue of the Coccidte of the world. Mass. Agr. Coll., 

 Special Bulletin, No. 88, pp. 360. — This will be found a most useful book of reference for all 

 students of the Coccidte. It is the result of nearly 25 years of painstaking labour by a well 

 known and eminent entomologist. One thousand live hundred and fourteen species are listed 

 with full bibliograijhical references. The notes on food plants and geographical distribution of 

 the species are most helpful. 



Blatcmley, W. S. The Orthoptera of Indiana, 8 vo., pp. 348. — This is practically a 

 concise and popular manual of the Orthoptera of Indiana. It will be found of the greatest help 

 to all, whether they live in Indiana or Canada, who may wish to take up the study of this very 

 important, but much neglected order. 



Smith, J. B. Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, June, 1903. — There is no 

 man living, who has done more for the struggling students of entomology in Canada than 

 everybody's friend. Dr. J. B. Smith. His patience, kindness and prompt attention in 

 identifying species and to all applications for information are unexcelled. The recent 

 appearance of a new edition of his Check List immediately following Dr. Dyar's Catalogue will 

 therefore place many students in a difficult and uncertain position. The question will be : 

 Whose arrangement are we going to adopt ? and this, each one must settle for himself. In the 

 first place, everyone should get the check list, then find out the differences and try and decide 

 whether the changes were advisable. In this way, at any rate, much valuable knowledge will 

 be acquired. Dr. Smith is a close student and a frank correspondent, always willing to discuss 

 fairly any problem submitted to him. 



Holland, W. J. The Moth Book. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, $4.00.— Just as 

 we are going to press, the much looked for Moth Book has come to hand. It is a handsome 

 volume, uniform with the Butterfly Book and the Insect Book, excellently printed and 

 profusely illustrated with 48 magnificent coloured plates giving 1,500 figures of North 

 American moths. These alone are worth far more than the whole price of the book. The letter 

 jjress, as must necessarily be the case when such an enormous field is covered, will be found 

 disappointing to a certain degree, not so much for what is given as for the lack of the further 

 information which is necessarily omitted. As the author himself states in the preface, ''The 

 brevity in description is, however, abundantly compensated for by the illustrations." There 

 are over 300 text cuts, besides tjie coloured plates. Some of these are excellent, but others 

 seem hardly up to the quality of the rest of the book. Unfortunately, this book again has a 

 somewhat diflferent nomenclature from either of the publications by Dr. Dyar and Dr. Smith 

 referred to above. The reasons for some of the changes are given, which will help the student 

 to correct Ij' understand the true nature oi many genera ; but beginners, finding such wide 

 differences of opinion between leading authorities, will, it is to be feared, bo for some time at 

 any rate considerably confused. This difficulty, however, must necessarily stimulate much 

 original thought and investigation, which will eventuate in a better knowledge of North 

 American systematic entomology. On the Avhole, the Moth Book will be found one of the 

 most u.seful accessible publications which has ever appeared upon American entomology. 



Felt, E. P. Aquatic Insects in New York State. (N. Y. State Museum, Bull, 18, Entomo- 

 logy). This is a sumptuous volume of 300 pages lavishly illustrated with 52 beautifully 

 executed plates and a few text-cuts. It is a study at the Entomological Field Station, Ithaca, 



