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young, the distribution of species, ete. ; and the third will be devoted to deserip- 
tions of the orbweaving fauna of the United States, with coloured illustrations 
of a number of species. The whole will form one of the most complete works 
of the kind in the English language. Entomologists will need to have long 
purses if they wish to possess ali the literature of the day, and to procure for 
themselves such costly and beautiful books as Scudder’s and Edwards’s Butter- 
flies and McCook’s Spiders. We trust that all who can possibly afford it will aid 
the authors in their self-sacrificing enterprises by subscribing for their books, but 
those who cannot do so should use their influence with their local Scientific 
Societies and Public Libraries and induce those in charge to purchase these 
valuable works for the general benefit. Weare glad to say that the Public 
Library in Toronto and our Entomological Society have set a good example in 
this respect and rendered these works available for many of our readers.—c. J. 8. B 
Report ON INSECT AND FunGus Pests. No. I. By Henry Tryon, Assistant 
Curator of the Queensland Museum. Published by the Department of 
Agriculture, Brisbane, Australia, 1889. 1 Vol., 8vo., pp. 238. 
We have perused with great interest this first work that we have seen on 
the Economie Entomology of Australia. Some of the pests referred to are very 
familiar to us here, for instance, the Codling Moth and the Woolly Aphis of the 
apple tree, while others are species closely allied to those which are very destructive 
with us. The report takes up different fruits, vegetables and field crops that 
are most commonly cultivated in the colony, and describes the insects which 
especially attack them ; as far as possible the life history of each pest is given 
and remedies are suggested. The work is very carefully and thoroughly done, and 
will, no doubt, be of great value to the fruit growers and farmers in that part of 
the world. Its usefulness would of course be greatly enhanced by illustrations o¢ 
the insects treated of, but evidently there were difficulties in the way of procuring 
these that could not at first be overcome. Future reports will doubtless be made 
popular in this way. The author deserves much credit for the valuable book he 
has produced. We trust that the Queensland Government will give him all the 
assistance and encouragement possible in the prosecution of his studies in prac- 
tical entomology, and enable him to continue a work that is of the utmost 
economic importance.—Cc. J. s. B. 
THE BUTTERFLIES OF INDIA, BURMAH AND CEYLON. By Lionel de Nicéville, 
Calcutta. Vol. 3. 12+503 pp. 6 pl. 1890. 8o. 
Some three years or more ago, we noticed a work on the above subject by 
Marshall and de Nicéville, of which two volumes had been published, the last by 
de Nicéville alone. A third volume of over 500 compact pages has just come 
to hand, the most notable thing about which, at least to a dweller in temperate 
regions, is that it is wholly concerned with the Lycaenide, of which eighty-two 
genera and over four hundred species are described. Such wealth in these pigmies 
among butterflies is a striking fact. The author, however, beyond the generic 
collocation has made no attempt to classify this immense assemblage, contenting 
himself with only distinguishing certain groups of genera by the name of one 
of the included genera, as the “Thecla group,” ete., which groups are character- 
ised in a general but not formal way in the body of the work. These agree 
tolerably well with the groups Doherty had previously characterised from the 
egg alone, but are about twice as numerous and are established mainly upon the 
