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spondence from specialists and IMS. information relative to habits and 

 geographical distribution are also gathered together in this manner and 

 indexed. 



Many of the more obscure species have the labels of determination 

 affixed by such students or collectors as Edwards, Strecker, IVIorrison, 

 et al., and in the HesperidcB a majorit}- of the species are represented by 

 series of from 12 to 50 or more specimens. In this family only the 

 genus Pamphila has more than one absentee in the collection. Begin- 

 ning with the genus Amblyscirtes, as arranged in Edward's Catalogue of 

 1884, Eudavuis Elecira, Lintn. , and Erycides Sangumea, Scud., are the 

 only missing species. In the four genera preceeding Pamphila all the 

 species are represented. In the Lyccenidce and Erycinidce, catalogued 

 as above, the collection is nearly as full ; the latter family is complete. 

 These data are given to illustrate the working condition and my literary 

 material. 



If anything in the above shall encourage any collector with material, 

 the determination of which is not satisfactory to him, to entrust me 

 therewith for the purposes of identification and study I shall be amply 

 repaid by the benefits of the latter and shall do my best to see that he 

 is promptly benefited by the former. 



Book Notice. 



"Insect Life, Vol. I, No. i. U. S. Dept. of Entomology. Periodical Bulletin, 

 July, 1888. Devoted to the economy and life habits of Insects, especially in their 

 relations to Agriculture, and edited by the Entomologist and his Assistants, with 

 the sanction of the Commissioner of Agriculture. Washington, D. C." 



The above pretty fully explains the prospectus of a new Journal 

 devoted to Entomology and issued by the Entomological Department 

 at Washington. Under the personal supervision of Dr. Riley it cannot 

 fail to be well edited ; and giving more or less the details of the De- 

 partment experiments and researches, it cannot fail to be of great and 

 lasting value. 



We have only one exception to note. Having the name "Insect 

 Life" given it, an impression might be given that it is to be a scientific 

 Journal in the ordinary sense of the term, and not what it professes and 

 aims to be a "periodical Bulletin''; this impression is strengthened by 

 the fact that in the very first number there are given descriptions of new 

 species of insects whose types are entirely out of the possession of the 



