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Japanese species, collected in 1887 by Dr. Hollaud duriug bis visit to 

 Japan as the naturalist of the United States Eclipse Expedition of that 

 year. In all, over 4,000 species of Khopalocera are found in the collec- 

 tion, tlie genus Papilio alone having more than 250 species correctly eti- 

 quetted in the drawers allotted to them. 



In the Heterocera the collection is also rich. By purchase Dr. Holland 

 has obtained the entire collection of the Hypenidie and Pyralidai of 

 Japan, made by the late Henry Pryer, of Yokohama. This collection, 

 the foruiation of which occupied Mr. Pryer seventeen years, is being- 

 made the basis of an elaborate monograph of the Pyralidai of Japan by 

 Dr. Holland, in the preparation of which he will have the assistance of 

 Prof. C. H. Fernald and others. 



Recent entomological Publications.— During the past few months a num- 

 ber of very important American entomological publications have been 

 received. We do not feel the same latitude in publishing critical re- 

 views in Inse ct Life as we should in a private periodical, but impor- 

 tant publications should receive some attention at our hands, if only a 

 mere announcement of their publication, for Insect Life reaches a 

 large class of readers whose means of ascertaiuiug just what has been 

 published in an entomological line are otherwise slight. 



The first part of Professor Comstock's " Introduction to Entomology " 

 was received some two months since. The title reads, "An Introduc- 

 tion to Entomology, by John HenryComstock, Professor of Entomol- 

 ogy and General Invertebrate Zoology in Cornell University, and for- 

 merly United States Entomologist, with many original illustrations 

 drawn and engraved by Anna Botsford Comstock, Ithaca, N. Y.; pub- 

 lished by the author, 1888." This first part is a volume of 234 pages, 

 comprising 201 illustrations, and considers the orders Thysanura, Pseu- 

 doneuroptera, Orthoptera, Physopoda, flemiptera, and Neuroptera, 

 leaving the Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, and Hymeuopterafor the 

 second and concluding jjart. The work is designed primarily as a text- 

 book. Price $2. 



Mr. John B. Smith's monograph of the " Sphingidic of America j^orth 

 of Mexico "has just been published by the American Entomological 

 Society, Philadelphia. It is a work of 195 pages, based largely on 

 work and material at the National Museum, and is illustrated by nine 

 plates, the plates referring mainly to anal characters and wing-vena- 

 tion. 



Dr. Lintner's fourth report on the injurious and other insects of the 

 State of iS"ew York has also recently come to hand. Dr. Lintuer uses 6S 

 text figures, and his report, including indices, covers 237 pages. 



The first and second ])arts of Mr. Scudder's long contemplated work, 

 entitled '•' Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, with 

 special reference to Ii^ew England," have also been received. The work 

 is published by the author and is very elaborate, the illustrations form- 



