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 shades of the yellowish green of the flower spike; besides it is clothed 

 Avith short white hairs making the surface pubescent like the plant. 

 After the last moult the first segment becomes pinkish, which color 

 extends down the side of several rings. When not feeding it conceals 

 itself among the ribbed seed })ods and ovaries of the spike; it is then 

 a dif^cult object to see even when one is searching for it, When 

 feeding on the unopened buds it clasps the long slender calyx tube 

 and bores a perfectly round hole through the calyx, crawling in 

 far enough to reach the tender organs which, all completely devoured, 

 tlie calyx remaining, again its jiosition and color serve it admirably 

 for protection. The young larva wholly enters the calyx. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Tkaxsactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 

 Vol. XI, May 1879. 



Maskell AV. M. (p. 187.) On some Coccidae in New Zealand, Avith 

 four Plates. (The author describes Mytilaspis pyriformis, M. Cordyli- 

 iiidis, M. drimydis, Aspidiotus atherospermae, A dysoryli, A aurantii, 

 Diaspis (/if/OS, Ctenochitoti {n. g.) 2)erforatuH, C,viridis, C. (donyatus, C 

 spinosiis, Im/Usia (n. g.) patella, Asterochiton (n. g.) Lecanioides. A. au- 

 reus, Acanthococcus multispinus, Eriococcus araucariae, DactUopiua cal- 

 ceolariae, D. (jlaucus, D. poae, Icerya, purchasia, Foicellia [n. g.) vitreo- 

 radiata, as new species.) 



Maskell AV. M. (p. 228.) On a Hymenopterous Insect parasitic on 

 Coccidae. (Describes and figures Diapria coccopliaga n. s.) 



Powell Llewellyn. (}>. 2(33.) On Desis robsoni, a marine si)idcr, 

 from Cape (Jampbell. 



Psyche. Vol. II, No. Gi, August, 1879. 



Sprague F. H. (p. 275.) Notes on Butterflies of Massachusetts. 



Bean Thos. E. (p. 200.) AA'estward progress of Eristalis tenax, 

 Linn. 



Patton AV. 11. (p. 260.) The ovipositor of Amblychila. 



Canadian Entomologist, A^il. XI, X'o. 7, July, 1879. 



Lintner J. A. (p. 121,) On Cecidomyia leguminicola n. s. 



Chambers V. T. (p. 125.) Microlepidoptera. (The author discusses 

 Adela bivieUa, A. hella, A. Schlaegeri, Antispila an-pelopsiella, A. hy- 

 dra ngeaeella.) 



Edwards AV. H. (p. 127.) Notes upon the preparatory stages of 

 certain species of Butterflies. (Describes the immature stages of 

 Eresia texana, Phyciodes vesta, Melitaea Baroni.) 



AVestcott 0. S. (p. 131.) A successful moth trap. 



Hagen Dr. H. (p. 132.) The typical collections of Diptera of 

 North America in the Museum in Cambridge, Mass. 



Patton AV. H. (p. 133.) Description of a new Fossorial AVasp. 

 (Describes Chforion aerarhim n. s.) 



