248 Review of Emmons’s Agriculture of New York. 
the money which has been expended on the volume before us, 
could have secured an original memoir, that would have been 
useful both to the scientific student and to those seeking for 
information in a popular form.* 
The plates contain figures of many of our common insects of 
each order. The figures are in general recognizable, but the exe- 
cution is disgraceful. The references are frequently es and 
more often imperfect, even for the most common spec 
As the plates appear to be the most important part of the book, 
and a review of the whole would be tedious, we will begin by 
agri some of the si errors conveyed by the ‘fignres 
Coleoptera. To go through the other orders would require 
ae patience than can be properly claimed either of our readers 
or of ourselves; moreover, as the order of Coleoptera has been 
better studied than any other, and information regarding it is 
more accessible to both the student and the compiler, a glance at 
the part of the work devoted to it will probably enable us fairly 
to appreciate the method porsued by the author. 
Pl. 2, fig. 8, ‘Clerus apiarius.’ The name belongs to a Buro- 
pean insect ; the figure if not copied from a European work, may 
represent our somewhat allied Trichodes apivorus Germ 
g. 2, ‘ Buprestis dentipes’ is B. punctulata Sch. (trans- 
versa ai and belongs to the genus pire B. vee Germ 
is a Chrysobothris. Fig.8, ‘ Buprestis ——’ is an Elateride, 
not eet in the text. Fig. 10,  Dyticus Harrisit ’ is D. verti- 
calis 
Pi. 8. “The very abundant Clytus colonus is aed: while 
C. erythrocephalus is left unnamed: fig. 4, of the reference 1s 
marked 5 on the plate, while 4 is omitted : we thus have 13 ref- 
erences to 12 figures. Fig. 9, ‘ Hlaphidion’ is irrecognizable. 
. Pl. 10, fig. 5, ‘ Scarites ——’ is the very common Passalus inter- 
ruptus, atid i is tibted among the corrections (p. 256) as “ allied to 
Sinodendron,” but its name is not given. 
Pl. 11, fig. 3, acne 12-notata’ is Hippodamia convergens 
Guérin. Fig. 1 1, ‘C. binoculatw’ is (text, p. 137) described 
as C. trioculata: the description of C. memes p. 138, we may 
_remark in passing, is altogether wron 
. 12, figs. 10 and 11, * Platycerus piceus? in recent times is 
placed i in the genus Ceruchus. 
Pl. 14; fig. 5, ‘Chrysomela tremula.’ Why is this European 
species introduced into the Natural sristory of lew York? It 
has been frequently figured in its own country. 
Pl. 14, fig. 4, ‘ Galleruca ——’ is the well known Gallernes Need 
brotica) 12-punctata : in the text, p. 129, it is noted as Crioce 
_* Even a few plates added to Dr. Harris's admirable treatise On the Insects of 
usetts negbaiae to Vegetation, would have given to the farmer, as well as to 
the scientific observer all the necessary information regarding our injurious specie. 
