192 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
as larve in their cocoons until quite late in the spring. The 
experienced Frederick Smith used to persist that no hymeno- 
pterous insect passed the winter as a pupa; this assertion, 
however, requires some slight modification. The American 
Anthonomus (A. quadrigibbus, Say) does not appear to be so 
destructive as our apple species, and the manner of oviposition 
appears to be quite different (see p. 184). 
The numerous figures in this work will be tolerably familiar 
to the readers of the various State reports, of Packard’s excellent 
‘Guide,’ and of the ‘Canadian Entomologist,’ of which latter 
periodical the author is the editor. Their source, however, is 
very justly acknowledged in the preface, and they are mostly 
well worthy of the use to which they are put, the figures of 
S. cerasi and its ally, S. vitis (figs. 159 and 295), with one or two 
others, being the only exceptions. 
In popular works popular names are more or less a matter of 
necessity, and in America the objection to their use is greatly 
minimised by the vulgar name being more often than not a 
literal translation of the scientific name. The term ‘locust ”’ is 
repeatedly misapplied, and we are pleased to see the renowned 
Caloptenus referred to as “ grasshopper or locust” (p. 157); the 
former correct name may thus make headway. But, on the 
other hand, it is a great pity to have Cicada septendecim again 
styled the ‘‘Seventeen-year Locust.” The volume concludes 
with a short synonymic list referring to many of the species 
treated of, and with a good index. 
To all entomologists this cheap and thoroughly well got-up 
volume can be strongly recommended ; much will be found to 
instruct and interest, especially the curious forms of larva, e. g., 
Empretia (fig. 112), Phobetrum (fig. 111), Nematocampa (fig. 179), 
Procris americana (fig. 275), which greatly reminds us of the 
larve of T'richiocampus viminalis, Fall., feedmg on our own 
poplar-leaf, &c. ‘To the gardeners and practical fruit-growers of 
this country much of the information will prove readily applicable 
and of generally good service until Miss Ormerod produces an 
enlargement of her ‘ Manual,’ or, still better, a similar work on 
our British species.—H. A. F. 
