ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. lOT 



The introductory chapters, upon some of the points which will at once present them - 

 selves to a beginner are excellent — concise, clearly expressed and accurate, and treat of 

 such subjects as : — What are butterflies, their structure, habits, variations and life-histories ? 

 There are three keys for identification, based on the perfect insect, the caterpillar and the 

 egg, and pages 63 to 174 are taken up with short accounts systematically arranged of the 

 insects treated of. There is a short glossary and an appendix giving instructions for col- 

 lecting, rearing and studying butterflies. 



On the whole this is a very useful little work, well prepared, convenient in size, well 

 printed and well got up. It is, of course, arranged after the same system as Mr. Soudder's 

 great work " The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada," and many of the 

 views there expressed are repeated here. The nomenclature is also the same, but the 

 names more frequently used by other authors are also given. A good feature of the work 

 is that the proper pronunciation of every name is shown by accents, and a popular 

 English name is given for each species. The author's observatiens on dimorphism of some 

 species, as of Colias Earytlieme and Fapilio Ajax do not seem quite to agree with those 

 published by Mr. W. H. Edwards. It would be difticulfc, however, to treat such subjects 

 fully in the space allotted to each species in this Brief Guide, which, we think, all who 

 use it will agree, is too brief, and they would like much more of it, of the same style. J. F. 



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Fig, 39. 

 THE LATE PROFESSOR WKSTWOOD. 



OBITUARY. 



The Late Professor Westwood. 



We are much pleased to be able to give in this issue a likeness of the very eminent 

 entomologist. Prof. Westwood, for which we are indebted to the kindness of the publishers 

 of the Illustrated London News. 



John Obadiah Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., etc., was born at Shefiield, England, on the 

 22nd of December, 180.5, and died, shortly after completing his 87th year, on the 2nd of 

 January last. His father was a die-sinker at Shefiield, but afterwards removed to Lich- 

 field. When nearly 16 years of age he went to London to be articled to a solicitor, and 

 though he devoted his attention more to the study of natural history than of law, he was 

 admitted as a solicitor and became partner in a firm. Having some private means, which 

 he augmented by writing and drawing, he was enabled to neglect his profession and give 

 himself up almost entirely to entomology and archaeology. 



