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insects, when addressed to the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to departments of entomology in State agricultural colleges, 

 and to persons holding oflficial entomological positions, and dried bisects and dried 

 reptiles may be sent in the mails when so put up as to render it practically 

 impossible that the package shall be broken in transit, or the persons handling the 

 same be injured, or the mail bags or their contents soiled. 



"Nursery stock, including field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, 

 cuttings, grafts, scions and buds (which may carry injurious insects) may be 

 admitted to the mails only when accompanied by a certificate from a State or 

 Government inspector to the effect that said nursery stock has been inspected and 

 found free from injurious insects." 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Butterfly-hunting in Many Lands; Notes of a Field Naturalist. By George 



B. Longstaft". pp. 728, pis. 6 & A-J. Longmans, Green & Co., London, New 



York, etc. 1912. ($7.00). 



This extensive volume is an account of the travels of an entomologist who has 

 visited a number of countries, mainly in the tropics, searching for butterflies. 

 Among entomological books, it is probably unique in its scope, and although 

 it does not aim at completeness of detail for any region, the connected form of 

 presentation gives it a value to the collector or general entomologist which is not 

 shared by any of the various, elaborately illustrated works on butterflies now extant. 

 There are lists of butterflies taken in India, Ceylon, China, Japan, South Africa, 

 Guiana, the Antilles, New Zealand and many other interesting places, but with 

 them are many notes on their habits as well as observations on some of the more 

 striking insects of other orders. 



Still more interesting are the descriptions of these places as an entomologist 

 ■\dews them from the standpoint of his own interests, which are naturally quite 

 different from those of the ordinary globe trotter and again less prejudiced than those 

 of the naturalist who deals with an isolated area. 



In addition to the entertainingly written body of the book, there is a chapter 

 of over 100 pages entitled "Bionomic Notes," dealing with the scents of butterflies 

 heliotropism, attitudes, polymorphism, which is of considerable interest for the 

 general zoologist. 



Translations of a number of papers by Fritz Miiller on the scent organs of Lep- 

 idoptera are given in an appendix, and the book is supplied with a good index. 



C. T. Brues. 



Guide to the Insects of Connecticut, Prepared under the direction of W. E. Britton. 



Part I. General Introduction pp. 38, pis. 5, by W. E. Britton. 



Part II. The Euplexoptera and Orthoptera, pp. 43-169, Vols. 6-11, by B. J. 



Walden. 



Published as Bull. 16, State Geol. & Nat. Hist. Survey, Connecticut, 1911. 



These two papers form the first part of a synopsis of the insects of Connecticut 

 which is being prepared under the direction of Dr. W. E. Britton, the State Ento- 



