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wheat and root crops, fruit, and forest trees in this country, and 

 to furnish suggestions for the prevention or remedy for these 

 attacks. Such a manual was much needed, and, written as it is 

 in a plain unaffected style, will commend itself to the most 

 unlearned. 



The descriptions of the insects and their habits are briefly 

 and clearly detailed, accompanied in almost every instance by a 

 figure, either from original drawings by the author or reproduced 

 by permission from Curtis's well-known ' Farm Insects.' These 

 illustrations, in many cases pourtray the insect in its successive 

 stages of larva, pupa, and imago, as well as the appearance 

 presented by its peculiar mode of attack. 



The remedies suggested are all based upon experiments 

 made and communicated by trustworthy observers, or taken from 

 previously published information duly acknowledged. 



Miss Oimerod has been fortunate in securing the co-operation 

 of numerous well-known entomologists in various parts of the 

 country, who have freely contributed the results of their own 

 observations and experiments pro bono publico, and the result is 

 a very useful little Manual. 



We will make one suggestion for improvement in a second 

 edition. Two Introductions and a Preface strike us as being 

 rather de trop. It would surely be better to let the Preface 

 follow and form part of Introduction No. 1, retaining the title of 

 " Preface" only ; and let this be succeeded by the " Introduction 

 to Entomology," the first seven pages of which might be con- 

 densed with advantage. Some of the illustrations are good, but 

 many of them are not delicate enough, and would be much 

 improved by the application of less ink and pressure. There is 

 room for some improvement, too, in the Index. As the book is 

 intended chiefly for the use of those who are not professed 

 entomologists, it would be desirable that the Index should in 

 every case contain the common English name as well as the 

 scientific name. We do not find the Yellow Underwing Moth 

 under anj T of these three English words, nor is it included 

 even under the generic term Tryphcsna, although described and 

 figured at p. 38, as well as being figured also at p. xxxi of the 

 Introduction. 



Ought not the larvae of Tenebrio molitor, popularly known as 

 "meal-worms," to find place amongst "Injurious Insects"? — for 



