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tho name Aletia xylina, Saj) occupies fifteen of the sixteen chapters, chap. 17 being 

 devoted to the "Boll Worm" {Heliothis armiffera ; also a Cotton Worm) ; the 

 Appendices mainly concern Reports from various assistants, and extend to Brazil, 

 Central America, and the West Indies. Most of the chapters are from Prof. Riley'a 

 own pen ; but chap. 5, devoted to anatomy, is by E. Burgess and C. S. Minot ; chap. 

 6, on "the Cotton Belt," by Prof. E. A. Smith; and chaps. 11-13, on machinery, 

 &c., devised for distributing destructive agents, are by Prof. W. S. Barnard, and the 

 plates from 14 inclusive concern the same subject. The two folded maps are 

 respectively explanatory of the physical conditions of the area occupied by cotton 

 cultivation in the States, and of tlie proportion that cotton bears to other crops. 

 The chapters treating on destructive agents, which are mostly " Paris Grreen," 

 "London Purple," Kerosene, and Pyrethrum, should be consulted by all interested 

 in Economic Entomology in all countries, and for nearly all crops. It is the 

 duty of a physician to cure disease or to prolong life ; so also is it the duty of an 

 economic entomologist to endeavour to save the crops of the agriculturist from attacks 

 of insect-enemies. We leave the question of over-production to the consideration of 

 the political economist. 



Second Repoet on the Injurious and other Insects of the State of New 

 York. By J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist. Albany, 1885, 8vo, pp. 262. 



We like this Report. If less bulky than those issued for some others of the 

 States it has the merit of clearness, and absence from a superfluity of red-tape 

 matter of little interest to the general reader ; nevertheless, the subjects treated upon 

 are very numerous, so numerous that we cannot even mention them in a condensed 

 form ; and all are treated upon in a practical, as well as in a scientific manner. The 

 author is an unrelenting enemy of the English sparrow, which he condemns as being 

 one cause of the increase of caterpillars, because it drives away the native birds that 

 feed upon them, and does not perform that useful office itself. The illustrations are 

 characteristic, but there is a coarseness about some of them. The index is vei-y full. 

 A useful feature is a reprint of a scarce paper by the late Asa Fitch who so long held 

 I the position of State Entomologist for New York. 



The Lepidoptera of Dorsetshire, or a Catalogue of the Butterflies and 

 Moths found in the County of Dorset. By C. W. Dale. Dorchester, Henry Ling j 

 London, Triibner and Co. Pp. xiv and 90, 8vo, 1886. 



This is, probably, one of the most complete lists of its kind that exists, and so it 

 should be, the name of Dale having been so intimately connected with the Ento- 

 mology of the County of Dorset for two generations, and for nearly the whole of the 

 present century, and latterly the author has had valuable assistance from the Rev. 

 O. P. Cambridge, the Rev. C. R. Digby, Mr. E. R. Bankes, &c. Taking the number 

 of British species at 2095, 1302 are enumerated as having been found in the County, 

 a very large proportion. An appendix is devoted to notable species in other orders 

 that have been recorded from the County, which is divided into six divisions on 

 account of physical and other features. The short introduction is readable, but, 

 perhaps, the first paragraph might have been advantageously omitted. The work is 

 of antiquarian interest from an entomological point of view. We read that Fapilio 

 Machaon (formerly plentiful) has not been taken at Glanville's Wootton since 1816 ; 

 Apatura Iris not since 1840 ; Vanessa c-alhum not since 1816 ; Melitcea Artemis 



