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Practical Floriculture ; a Guide to the successful cultivation 

 of Florists' Plants, for the Amateur and Professional Florist. 

 By Peter Henderson. Third edition. Greatly enlarged. 

 12mo. pp. 311. 72 illustrations. New York, 1879. Orange 

 Judd Co. This third edition of an inestimably useful work 

 has grown out of " hundreds of questions which have sug- 

 gested themselves to those already in possession of the first 

 and second eduions." It is replete with information of value, 

 especially to the novice and the amateur ; and no flower lover 

 who owns a garden, or a window-garden, should be without it. 



The Chinch-bug ; its history, characters and habits, and the 

 means of destroying it or counteracting its injuries. P.ulletin 

 No. 5, U. S. Entomological Commision. By Cyrus Thomas, 

 Ph. D. This is an exhaustive account of an insect which, 

 taken all in all, is perhaps the most serious pest which the 

 grain-grower has to contend with. While giving accurate in- 

 formation as to the insect's habits, natural history and enemies, 

 it is, like the other publications of the Commission, chiefly de- 

 voted to the practical question of how to control the enemy. 

 Written for the farmer, with all necessary illustrations, its 

 wide circulation can not fail to be productive of good. 



The Entomological Libraries of the United States. By 

 Samuel Hubbard Scudder. 8vo. pp. 6. (Republished from 

 Bull, of Library of Harvard University.) Cambridge, Mass., 

 1880. From the Author. 



Some of the Insects that frequent the Orchard and Garden. 

 By Rev. T. W. Fyles. 8vo. pp.13. Illustrated. (Reprinted 

 from 4th Rep. of the Montreal Hort. Soc.) Montreal, 1879. 

 From the Author. 



The Food of Birds. (The Thrush Family.) By S. A. 

 Forbes. 8vo. pp. 58. (From Trans. 111. State Hort. Soc. 

 Vol. XIII. 1879.) From the Author. 



An Historical Sketch of Henry's Contribution to the 

 Electro-magnetic Telegraph, with an Account of the Origin 

 and Development of Prof. IVIorse's Invention. By William 

 B. Taylor. 8vo. pp. 103. (From the Smithsonian Report 

 for 1878.) Washington, 1879. From the Author. 



Etude sur les Especes de la Tribu des Feronides qui se ren- 

 contrent en Belgique. Par A. P. de Borre. 8vo. pp. 46. 

 (Ext. des Annales de la Societe Ent. de Belgique.) Nov. 1878. 

 From the Author. 



Quelque conseils aux Chasseurs d'Insectes. Par A. Preud- 

 homme de Borre. 8vo. pp.7. (Ext. des Comptes-rendus de 

 la Soc. Ent. de Belgique. Seance du 2 Novembre, 1878.) 

 From the Author. 



Sur I'oeuf et la jeune larve d'une espece de Cyphocrania. 

 Par A. Preudhomme de Borre. 8vo. pp. i. (Ext. des 

 Comptes-rendus de la Soc. Ept. de Belgique. Seance du 'X 

 Novembre, 1878.) From the Author. 



Note sur des Difformites observees chez V Abax ovalis et le 

 Geotrupes syh'aticus. Par A. P. de Borre. 8vo. pp. 3. 

 (Extr. des Comptes-rendus de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique. 

 Seance du 7 Decembre, 1878.) From the Author. 



Annual Report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, for 1879. By Albert R. Ledoux, A. M., Ph. D. 

 8vo. pp. 198. Raleigh, N. C, 1879. From the Author. 



Description of some minute Hymenopterous Insects. By 

 J. O. Westwood, M. A., F. L. S., etc. 4to. pp. 11. 1 plate. 

 (Ext. from Trans. Linnean Soc. of London. Second series. 

 Zoology, Vol. I.) London, Eng., 1878. From the Author. 



Observations on the Uraniidae, a Family of Lepidopterous 

 Insects, with a Synopsis of the Family and a Monograph of 

 Coronidia, one of the Genera of which it is composed. By 

 J. O. Westwood, M. A., F. L. S., etc. 4to, pp. .36. 4 plates. 

 (Ext. from Trans. Zool. Soc. Vol. X. Part XII.) London, 

 Eng., 1879. From the Author. 



A Decade of new Cetoniidae. By J. O. Westwood, M. A., 

 F. L. S., etc. 8vo. pp.10. 2 plates. (Ext. from Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, 1879. Part II.) London, Eng. From the Author. 



Report of E. W. Hilgard, Professor of Agriculture, Uni- 

 versity of California. (Supplement to the Biennial Report of 

 the Board of Regents.) 8vo. pp. 113. Sacramento, Cal., 

 1879. From the Author. 



Leeds & Co.'s Plant Catalogue for Spring of 1880. 8vo. 

 pp. 5(5. Richmond, Ind. From Leeds & Co. 



Sopra Certi Organi di Senso nelle Antenne dei Ditteri. 

 Memoria del Dott. Paolo Mayer. 4to. pp.12, pi. 1. (Reale 

 Accademia dei Lincei. Anno 1878-9.) Roma, 1879. From 

 the Author. 



Report of the Curator of the Southern Illinois Normal Uni- 

 versity, G. H. French. 8vo. pp. 18. (Ext. from the Fifth 

 Annual Report of the Prin^pal to the Board of Trustees.) 

 Carbondale, 111., 1879. From the Author. 



Ein sechstes Phytoptocecidium von Acercampestre. Von 

 Dr. Fr. Thomas. 8vo. pp. 6. (Abdruck aus der Zeitschrift 

 fiir die gesammten Naturwissenschaften Band. LII. 1879. 

 September-October-Heft.) From the Author. 



De la Meilleure Disposition a donner aux Caisses et Cartons 

 des Collections d'Insectes. Par A. P. de Borre. 8vo. pp.4. 

 (Ext. des Annales de la Soc. Ent. de Belgique. Seance du 

 5 Avril, 1879.) From the Author. 



Notice sur les Especes des Tribus des Panageides, des 

 Loricerides, des Licinides, des Chlsenides et des Broscides, qui 

 se rencontrent en Belgique. Par A. Preudhomme de Borre. 

 8vo. pp. 27. (Ext. des Comptes-rendus de la Soc. Ent. de 

 Belgique. Seance du 1 Juin, 1878.) From the Author. 



"Production and Distribution of Cereals of the United States. 

 By J. R. Dodge. 8vo. pp. 14. (Ext. from Report of Joseph 

 Nimmo, jr., chief of the Bureau of Statistics on the Internal 

 Commerce of the United States.) Washington, Dec. 1, 1879. 

 From the Author. 



Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique Suisse. Vol. V, No. 9. 

 Schaffhausen, Dec. 1879. From the Editor. 



Le Phylloxera. Comites d'etudes et de vigilance. Rapports 

 et Documents, lie Fascicule. Paris. Oct. 1879. From the 

 Editor. 



Report of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Agricul- 

 tural College. 8vo. pp. 20. Annapolis, 1880. From A. 

 Grabowskii. 



Extracts from Correspondence. 



[We shall publish in this Department such extracts from the 

 letters of our correspondents as contain entomological facts 

 worthy to be recorded, on account either of their scientific or 

 of their practical importance. We hope our readers will con- 

 tribute each their several mites towards the general fund ; and 

 in case they are not perfectly certain of the names of the in- 

 sects, the peculiarities of which are to be mentioned, will send 

 specimens along in order that each species may be duly 

 identified.] 



Pyrethrum for House Plants. — I have tried 

 the Pj-rethrum powder to some extent, and find 

 it a perfect remedy for the green Aphis on house 

 plants. We have dusted our plants only twice 

 this winter and there is not an Aphis nor a scale, 

 nor a Mealy-bug to be seen, either in the house 

 or in the pit. Our plants never were so thrifty 

 and beautiful. We have, however, had an ex- 

 ceptionally mild and sunn}' winter. — Marj' E. 

 Murtfeldt. 



Green varieties in the genus Argynnis.— I 

 have been very much interested in Edwards's 

 Butterflies of North America, especially with 

 reference to the fact that three species of the 

 genus Argynnis there figured have always green 

 females. Now in the New Forest, I find that a 

 fair percentage of females of Argyniiis paphia 

 are green, and it appears to me that in this 

 wild district we have an archaic coloration of 

 tliis species ; for I am told that rarel)', if ever, in 

 other parts of England is such a variety seen. I 

 took twenty-two specimens of this variety in 

 August last, after great labor, as the Forest was 

 a complete bog, owing to our wet season. — 

 J. Jenner Weir, London, Eng. 



Influence of Winds on Aletia. — I discover 

 your leaning towards the theory that, in this 

 latitude the Aletia hibernates, and that the ad- 

 vent of it on the summer's cotton growth is from 

 the hibernated moth of the vicinage. 



I have heretofore expressed both to yourself 

 and to Prof. Comstock the result of my observa- 



