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AgKOTIS MIKAISJLIS 11. S. 



S . Fore tibiae unarmed ; male antennae simple. Blackish fuscons; 

 terminal space paler, powdered with grayish. Lines obliterate. Me- 

 dian lines approximate. Snbterminal defined by difference of shade' 

 Discal spots contrasting, yellowish or ochery white in a black shade ; 

 orbicular reduced, reniform moderate, subquadrate. A whitish dot in 

 front at insertions of forewings. Head collar and tegulae concolor- 

 ous ; dorsum of thorax pale reddish, contrasting ; tegulae with indis- 

 tinct inner black edging. Hind wings dark fuscous, with pale inter- 

 lined fringes. Beneath dark fuscous powdered with grayish; on pri- 

 maries the inception of common line marked in black, and costal dots. 

 Expanse 36 mil. Allied to discoidalis, but very different in color. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



Kepokt of the Entomologist of tpie Department of 

 AGRicuLTrKE, Washixgtox, August, 1879. 

 r.v (Aharles V. Riley. 



(This i)amphlet, \)\^. l—b'l, with seven plates, contains a brief 

 report on insects affecting the cotton plant (p. 5) ; the silk-Avorm 

 (p. 10); the grape phylloxera (p. 33); the apple worm (p. 33); the 

 westward progress of the imported cabbage-worm (p. 34); Phoxopteris 

 7)»6ecutona (p. 34); Vkipheromera femorata {\\ 36); the great elm-leaf 

 beetle (p. 40); DapsiUa rulUaiia (p. 4'-i); the clover-root borer (p. 43); 

 the clover-seed midge (p. 45); the apple coleophora, C. m'jlicordla n. 

 s. (p. 48); and Fuller's rose beetle (p, 50). The wood cuts on seven 

 plates give 19 useful and excellent figures.) 



The Canadian Entomologist, A^ol. XI, August, 1879. 



Edwards AV. H. (p. 141.) Notes on the preparatory stages of cer- 

 tain species of Butterflies. No. 3. (Discusses MeliUied minuta, Par- 

 nassius smintheus var. Behn'i, Panwssi(ts Baldur, Chionobas Ivallda, 

 C. Iduna.) 



Chambers V. T. (p. 143.) Tineina. (Refers quercAmkUa Cham, to 

 ahdoinitudis Zell., Clemensella to striolafa: necopinuseUa to Hageni, au- 

 ristrigella to mediostriateJhi as synonyms ; describes Lith. querrivoreUa 

 as new.) 



Bethune Rev. C. J. 8. (}). 140). Insects of tlie nortliern i)art of 

 British America from Kirby's Fauna Boreali-.lmericana. 



Ferxald C. H. (p. 155.) Tortricidae. (Describes as new Tortrix 

 C'lemensiana, Tortrix juglandana, Penthina osmundana, GrapholUha al- 

 hrninrulana, Uetiiila? Coinstocl\i(in(i.) 



