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EECENT ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. 



The following brief notices of some of the most valuable Entomological publications 

 which have appeared during the past year, are from the jjages of the Canadian Entomo- 

 logist : — 



Economic Entomology, by Andrew Murray, F. L. S., London, England. Aptera, 8vo., 

 pp. 433, profusely illustrated with wood-cuts. 



This useful volume is the first of a series of baud books which are intended to serve 

 as guides to the different departments of the collection of Economic Entomology in process 

 of formation at the Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington Museum, and also as 

 practical treatises for the use of the public generally. In order the better to serve its primary 

 purpose of guide to the collection, the contents of the several cases are described in this 

 volume in the order in whicii they present themselves to the visitor, containing in some 

 instances other specimens than insects. The work opens with a short chapter on Crusta- 

 ceans likely to be mistaken for insects ; for example, species of Oniscus, Porcellio, and Ar- 

 nuuUllo. Next in order are the Miriapods^Julidae and Scolopendridae ; then Scorpions 

 and their allies ; Spiders, Mites, Lice, Thysanura (Spring tails) and Lepismidae. Three 

 new genera and thirteen new species are described in this volume. 



The descriptions are briefly and plainly written, and the habits and life history of the 

 species are delineated in a pleasing and popular manner. The work is well printed in good, 

 clear type, and most of the illustrations are excellent. Already we have found it very use- 

 ful, giving in a condensed form a vast amount of information not otherwise readily obtain- 

 able. We heartily commend this work to our readers, and trust that the talented author 

 may be spared to complete the series proposed, which will appear in the following order : — 

 2nd vol. Bugs ; 3rd, Locusts, Grasshoppers, Cockroaches, and Earwigs ; 4th, Two-winged 

 Flies ; 5th, Bees, Wasps, &c. ; 6th, The Dragon Flies and May Flies ; 7th, Butterflies 

 and Moths, and lastly, the Beetles. 



Ninth Annual Report of the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the State of 

 Missouri. By Chas. V. Riley, State Entomologist, March, 1877 ; 8vo., pp. 129 with 

 33 illustrations. 



We welcome the ninth of this series of valuable reports with much pleasure. The 

 following are the subjects treated of in the order in which they appear ; The Gooseberry 

 Span Worm ; the Imported Currant Worm ; the Native Currant Worm ; the Strawberry 

 Worm ; Abbott's White Pine Worm ; LeConte's Pine Worm ; the Colorado Potato 

 Beetle ; the Army Worm ; the Rocky Mountain Locust ; the Hellgrammite Fly, and the 

 Yucca Borer. The bulk of the report, sixty-seven pages in all, is occupied with details 

 in reference to that terrible scourge of the West, the Rocky Mountain Locust, Calopienus 

 spretus, the other and less important subjects being much more briefly treated of These 

 reports contain an immense fund of valuable information, and have done much to popu- 

 larize Entomology in America. 



CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO. 



By W. H. Edwards. 



Part \ —Diumals. {Published by the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia, 8vo. pp. 

 68 Price ■$! ; interleaved for additions, $1.S0. 



This work of Mr. Edward's is conservative in its character, and as such is most re- 

 freshing; after having tried in vain to fathom the innovations with which we have for 

 the past few years been peri)lexed, this excellent catalogue comes to our rescue, and will 

 we feel sure, be appreciated by all who do not believe in the excessive multiplication of 

 genera and their establishment on minute and often variable characters. Here the dear 

 old familiar names are nearly all in their places again, and we go back to the time-hon- 

 oured method of heading our collections with Papilio, and embracing in it some 22 species. 



