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The Butterflies of the Eastern United States, for the use of classes in 

 Zoology and private students, by Prof. G. H. French, of the Southern 

 Illinois Normal University, will enable the intelligent student, by the aid 

 of svnoptic tables, descriptions and figures, to name almost any of the 

 species that occur within the United States, east of Nebraska, Kansas and 

 Texas. Two hundred species are described, illustrated in 93 figures, 

 and where known, the earlier stages are also given. 



A similar work, devoted to a smaller group, is the Sphingidce of 

 New England, by Prof. C. H. Fernald — a pamphlet of 85 pages and 6 

 plates, in which the forty-two species known to occur in the Eastern 

 States are described and a few of them figured. 



A feature in both of the above publications which deserves special 

 commendation, is the accentuation of the names of the species. The 

 care that has been bestowed upon the preparations of these lists, entitle 

 them to acceptance and adoption, and we hope will ensure us some de- 

 gree of uniformity in pronounciation, hereafter. 



Prof. Fernald and Mr Jno. B. Smith have contributed notes upon 

 Some 0/ the genera of our Sphingidce (Entomologica Americana ii, p. 2). 



Mr. Smith has continued his Introduction to a Classification of the 

 North American Lepidoptera in a fourth paper, devoted to the Sphingidse 

 (id., 1, p 81 — 87), and has also given a more detailed account, with 

 figures, of the scent-organs in some Bombycid Moths, than we have 

 hitherto had ^id. ii, p. 79). 



The careful Life-histories of our Butterflies have been continued by 

 Mr. W. H. Edwards (Canad. Ent., xvii, pp. 155, 181, 245), and also his 

 Descriptions of New Species, from the Pacific Slope (Id. p. 61). 



The Rev. G. D. Hulst has published during the last month, De- 

 scriptions of New Pyralidce, embracing such species as are not named in 

 the American collections and are unknown to those who have made 

 special study of the family. Much the larger number of the species de- 

 scribed (89 in all) are from the western portion of the United States 

 (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. xiii, July 1866, pp. 145 — 168). Mr. Hulst has 

 also published two papers upon the Geometridce in which several new 

 species are described, viz., New Species and Varieties of Geometridce 

 (Ent. Amer., i, pp, 201 — 208) and Notes upon various Species of the 

 Ennominai (id. ii, pp. 47 — 52). 



Descriptions of new species ol Lepidoptera have also been published 

 by Mr. Henry Edward (Ent. Amer., i, p 128, ii, p. 8), Mr. J. Elwyn 

 Bates (Can. Ent., xviii, 74, 94), Mr. Ph. Fischer (Id., xvii, p. 133), 

 Mr. B. Neumoegen (Ent. Amer., p. 192), and Mr. R. H. Stretch (Id., 

 p. 102). 



