ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



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Entomolocical Record for 18()9. — We learn 

 from the Editor that the Record for 18U9 will be 

 out early in the spring. This work is published 

 at considerable loss to the Naturalists' Book 

 Agency at Salem, Mass., and every entomolo- 

 gist should encourage the undertaking. 



Pn.vR CiLTi RE iokProi'IT.— B. V. T.Quiuu — 

 J'ress of the Tribune Association, N. Y. — A. 

 work which, though it has called forth some 

 severe criticism, every i)ear-grower should have. 

 We consider that portion on the diseases and 

 insects of the pear, as singularly incomplete. 



Smai.i, Fruit Recoruek and Cottage Gard- 

 ner. — A. M. Purdy (successor to Purdy & 

 Johnson) of Palmyra, N. Y., has sent us copies 

 of the above monthly. It is spicy and practi- 

 cal, and we hope the energetic editor will not 

 fail of success. 



Le Naturaliste Canadien. — Vol. II, No. 1 

 of this ably edited little monthly, comes to us 

 in a new dress, with a much embellished cover, 

 handsomer type, and a marked improvement 

 in the character of the engravings. M. TAbbe 

 I'rovancher is doing a good work in popular- 

 izing the delightful study of Natural History, 

 and we sincerely wish him success in his under- 

 taking. 



1ntelj.1(;ence of Animals. — From the French 

 of Ernest Menault — Charles Scribner & Co., 

 publishers. This is a highly interesting little 

 book, and the author is benignant and sensible 

 enough to accord, with Montaigne, Reaumur, 

 La Fontaine, Leroy, Cuvier, Spence, and others, 

 a degree of reason and intelligence to the lower 

 animals. The work is fully illustrated, and is 

 lull of amusing and instructive reading. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



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Illinois State Entomologist.— Just as our 

 last form is going to press, we learn that Df. 

 Wm. Le^aron, of Geneva, Kane county, Ills., 

 has been appointed to the office of State Ento- 

 mologist, made vacant by the death of our late 

 associate. Well done. Governor Palmer! Our 

 Illinois friends have good cause to rejoice at the 

 appointment I 



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Missouri Reports.— We can yet dispose of a 

 few copies of the First Missouri Entomological 

 Report, wilh uncolored plates, for f 1.00, or of 

 the Second Report for 75 cents, both separately j 

 bound. Citizens of Missouri can obtain the 

 same, bound in with the Agricultural Report, j 

 by sending .■)0 cents for postage, to C. W. Murt- 

 feldt, 61l' North Fifth street, St. Louis, Mo. I 



Iniects Named— i/j'ss Marion Hohart, Port Bynm, 

 IIU. — The butterfly which you reared from nettle- 

 feeding larvii' is Grapta comma, Ilarr., or the Comma 

 Butterfly. Mr. Edwards long since found the lar\;c of 

 this species feeding on the Broad-leaved Xettle in the 

 Catskill Mountains, though Dr. Harris bred his speci- 

 mens from hop-feeding larvw. The species is of quite 

 uncommon occurrence witli us, and we have only met 

 with one specimen in seven years' collecting. There 

 are four other Xorth American species belonging to this 

 genus, namely, progne, J-alhum,faimiis, and interroga- 

 tionis, which greatly resemble one another in the gen- 

 eral appearance of the upper surfaces. We may at 

 some future time take occasion to explain and illustrate 

 the distinguishing features which separate these species. 

 Xo, 2, which you bred from a "black bristly cater- 

 pillar, with reddish-brown transverse bands on the 

 body," is a small c? of the Great White Leopard Moth 

 lEcpaniheria scriionia, Hiibn. = Phahvna oculatissima, 

 Sm. and Abb.) Xo. S, bred from hazel-feeding larva', 

 is the Chain-dotted Geometer (Geometra catenaria), 

 which also feeds on the Wood-waxen, otherwise known 

 as Dyer's Green or Dyer's Genista. Xo. 4, the large 

 black tumble-bug with a rhinoceros-like horn on the 

 head, and which was disinterred at a depth of two (eet 

 in frozen ground, is cf -Yylori/dts satyrue, Fabr. Xo. h, 

 Arctiit rirgo, Sm . and Abb. Xo 6, Cotalpa lanigera, 

 Mnn. X'o. T, feeding upon Htizel leaves, is Serial 

 respertina, Schonli. Xo. 8, on Milk-weed, is fetraopts 

 o-maeulatas, Hald. Xo. 9, Carahus sihosus, Say. You 

 should always pin your beetles through the riglit wing- 

 cover near the shoulder, and not through the scutel . 

 or through the left wing-cover. 



Supposed Trout Enemy — Fred. Mather, Honeoyc 

 Falls, N. r.— The single small case which you send, and 

 of which you noticed great numbers a few weeks ago 

 with the head and legs of the bearer protruding, antl 

 climbiug upon some spawn which you brought from 

 Mr. Green's— came safely to hand, but without an 

 occupant. It is the case of a Caddice-fiy larva, and 

 Ipoks much like those known to be made in Europe by 

 a genus of these flies (Sericontoma) comprising small 

 species. The small dusky flies, with long antenna", two 

 somewhat similar caudal appendages and strongly nerved 

 wings, which flies are very thick on the snow around 

 the i)onds which do not freeze, breed in the water, as 

 you rightly conjecture. They belong to the Perla 

 family, and the species in question is Capnia minima, 

 Xewp,, or in English, the Diminished Capnia. The 

 larva' of these insects live in the water, and in general 

 form resemble the flies except in wanting wings, and 

 the pupa is said to be also active. The other two insects 

 which were enclo.sed with these flies, and which were 



