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fesses to some uncertainty as to whether the Plum Curculio really 
occurs in Australia, and the article is introduced upon this uncer- 
tainty. Asin Part I the volume concludes with some consideration of 
fruit and grain-eating birds and lists of materials for the destruction 
of insects and of insecticide machinery. The volume marks a distinct 
advance uponits predecessor, particularly in the illustrations, which are 
reproduced in a very superior manner. Original drawings were made 
by Mr. C. C. Brittlebank under Mr. French’s direction. 
Manual of New Zealand Entomology.*—We have not before noticed — 
Mr. G. H. Hudson’s interesting book published under the above title — 
last year. It is a handsome little volume of 120 pages and with many ~ 
colored plates, nearly all of which are well executed. The work con- 
sists of some observations on the anatomy of insects in general, a pop- 
ular definition of the seven Linnean orders, a chapter on methods of 
collecting, and a systematic consideration of certain types of families 
arranged according to classificatory position. By a rather curious © 
arrangement this consideration begins with the Coleoptera and ends — 
with the Hemiptera. The author seems to have made a large number 
of important personal observations on the life histories of different 
species. Owing to the restricted size of the volume only a small pro- 
portion of the families are thus considered, but as a general thing the 
accounts are full and presumably accurate and at the same time are — 
written in a most interesting and rather popular style. Every insect 
treated is figured upon a colored plate, usually in the larval stage and 
sometimes in the pupal stage as well as in the adult. This method of 
taking a single type of each family treated is, perhaps, as good a one 
as could have been chosen for a work of this extent. The insects are ~ 
many of them strange in appearance and some of the observations | 
upon life histories are new to science. The only matters in the volume — 
. 
which are open to criticism are the ancient classification and certain 
mispelled family names. The book is well calculated to excite an inter- © 
est in entomology and this is the avowed purpose for which it was 
written. 
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Roan 
*An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology for Introduction to the 
Study of our Native Insects. With twenty-one colored plates. By G. V. Hudson, — 
F. E. 8. Wellington, New Zealand..London. West, Newman & Co., 1892. 9 
