june,s,6.] SUPPLEMENT TO PSVCHE. 11 



ScoLYTIDAE. Pol VL; rapluis rufipennis Kb_v.,Julv, suininit, 



Lake of Clouds. 



X.vloterus lineatus Oliv.. Ji.lv. Summit. Hylurgops glabratus Zett. 

 Xvleborus tachygraphus Zimm. 



caelatus Eich. Axthribidae. 

 Drvocoetes aiitographus Ratz., July, sum- 

 mit. Eurymycter fasciatus Oliv.. Willis Seat. 

 Tomicus pini Sav. summit. Allandi-us bifasciatus Lee, sumuiit. 



just Published, by Heury Holt & Co., New York. 



Scudder's Brief Guide to the Com- Scudder's The Life of a Butterfly, 

 moner Butterflies. A Chapter in Natural History for 



Bv Samuel H. Scudder. xi + ::o6 pji. the General Reader. 



By Samuel II. Scudder. iS6 pp. i6mo. 

 $i.oo. 



.\n introduction, for tlie young .student, to 

 the nauies and something of the relationship 



and lives of our commoner butterflies. The In this book the author has tried to present 



author has selected for treatment the butter- in untechnical language the story of the life 



flies, less than one hundred in number, which of one of our most conspicuous American 



would be almost surely met with by an in- butterflies. At the same time, by introduc- 



dustrious collector in a course of a year's or ing into the account of its anatomy, devel- 



two year's work in our Northern States east opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonal 



of the Great Plains, and in Canada. While changes some comparisons with the more or 



all the apparatus necessary to identify the.se less dissimilar structure and life of other but- 



Initterflies, in their earlier as well as perfect terflies, and particularly of our native forms, 



stage, is supplied, it is far from the author's he has endeavored to give, in some fashion 



purpose to treat them as if they were so many and in brief space, a general account of the 



mere postage-stamps to be classified and ar- lives of the whole tribe. By using a single 



ranged in a cabinet. He has accordingly butterfly as a special text, one may discourse 



added to the descriptions of the different spe- at pleasure of many : and in the limited field 



cies, their most obvious stages, some of the which our native butterflies cover, this meth- 



curious facts concerning their periodicity and od has a certain advantage from its simplicity 



their habits of life. and directness. 



