ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 117 



Ei'iHTii Rkport of thk Injurious and otheu Insects op tiif: Statk of New York 

 FOR THE Year 1891 : By J. A. Lintner, Ph D, State Entomolngist, Albany, 1893, 



Anything publiahed by Dr. Lintner is sure to contain much valuable information and 

 to be highly interesting, whether the subjects treated of are new to us or not. The 

 Report before us fully supports this statement. It treats of a large number of insects, 

 injurious or otherwise; and gives in most cases a life history of each, including the 

 author's own observations, which are always accurate and clearly detailed. Attention 

 may especially ba drawn to the accounts of the Raspberry Geometer (Si/ncJilora glaucaria), 

 the Birch-leaf Bucculatrix (B. Canadenslsella), and the Pear-midge (Diplosis pyrivora). 

 An appendix contains some very interesting popular lectures on Economic Entomology, 

 which are well worth perusal. The only drawback to the Report is the late date of its 

 publication, which is more than two years after the observations recorded in it were 

 made. C. J. S. B. 



Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea : By John Henry Leech, B.A., F LS , etc. 

 In parts, 4-to, 642 pp , 43 plates ; R. H. Porter, London, Dec, 1892 —Jan., 1894. 



The fifth and last part of the letter-press of Mr. Leech's work has just been issued,^ 

 and is accompanied by the statement that five plates of Hesperidte and a supplemental 

 plate will shortly follow, completing the work. Presumably these plates will be accom- 

 panied by the letterpress of the t' tie page, preface and index, with which the work will 

 be ready for the binder. As to the typography of the book, it must be said that it leaves 

 nothing to be desired. The paper is luxuriously heavy ; the type is beautifully clear and 

 large ; and the text conspicuously free from errors of a minor character, such as occasion- 

 ally appear even in the most carefully edited works. The scholarship and taste of Mr. 

 Leech and his accomplished secretary, Mr. Richard South, are reflected in the execution 

 of the literary portions of the work. The plates, which are from drawings by William 

 Purkiss, and are executed by chromo-lithography by William Greve, of Berlin, are with- 

 out doubt the finest examples of this form of work which have as yet graced any similar 

 publication. While a preference is by many accorded to figures lithographed and after- 

 wards colored by hand, and the most excjuisitely perfect illustrations have been produced 

 in this way ; and while the results of chromo-lithography as ordinarily employed in 

 scientific illustrations have generally been more or less marred by striking crudities, these 

 plates before us are most marvellous illustrations of the capabilities of the chromo-litho^ 

 graphic process, when employed by those who are masters of the art. The plates are 

 almost perfect facsimiles in form and color of Mr. Purkiss's exquisite drawings ; and the 

 student of Chinese and Japanese lepidoptera may well rejoice upon having at his command 

 such an infallible guide to specific identity as is found in these beautiful illustrations. 

 The only adverse criticism which the mechanical and typographical execution of the work 

 admits is on the score of the bulk of the letter press, which will necessarily be bound up 

 in one volume. The heavy paper employed results in the production of a book which, as 

 a manual of reference, promises to be somewhat uncomfortably " fat." 



The title of the book indicates the consciousness of the author that, in our present 

 state of knowledge, any effort to deal with the lepidopterous fauna of the great regions 

 covered by this work must at best be attended by imperfections. There are wide areas in 

 China in which little or no attempt has yet been made to make collections ; and it must 

 necessarily be many years before it can be asserted that our knowledge of the fauniatic re- 

 sources of Central Asia is complete. In his classification, Mr. Leech follows the order 

 now almost universally recognized by writers in England and on the continent as most 

 natural. He erects, as far as the writer has been able to observe, no new genera ; and 

 while giving us a large number of new species, appears to have pursued a conservative 

 course in this regard, which is to be commended. To the student of Asiatic lepidoptera 

 the work is simple indispensable, and will remain a lasting monument of the energy and 

 scientific accomplishments of its learned and enthusiastic author. W. J. Holland. 



