TËE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. éS 



NEW ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. 



fî^HE Butterflies of North America; with colored drawings and descrip- 

 tions. By Wra. H. Edwards. Philadelphia ; The American Entomolog- 

 ical Society. Part 2, August, 186S. Price $2. 



The second part of this magnificent work, to which we have already drawn 

 attention, is now befbi*e us. It contains five beautifully colored plates, and 

 descriptive letter press; the species figured (none of which are Canadian) 

 tixe Argynnis callippe, Boisd., taken in California ; ^. A^sjofrî's, Edw , from 

 Colorado ; Colias Alexandra^ Edw., from Empire City, Colorado, " high up 

 in the mountains, near the Snowy Range ;'' C. Helena., Edw., from 

 Mackenzie's River; C Christina, Edw., from Slave River; C. Bekn'i, 

 Edw., from among the Yo Semite Mountains, California, at an elevation of 

 about 10,000 feet above the sea; Apatura Alicia, Edw. (new species), from 

 New Orleans. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of ITatural History. Taken irom the Society's 



Records. Vol. xii., Oct. 7 and Nov. 4, 186S. 

 The Maine Farmer. Augusta, Me., Nov. 7, 14, 1868. 



Prom Prof. Townend Glover, Washington, D. 0., a series of his admirably 

 executed plates on the cotton plant and the insects injuring it, and on Bipterd^ 

 &c., in all forty-three plates. A valuable addition to the, at present, small library 

 of the Society ; and for which we beg the author to accept our best thanks. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Rev. L. P., Port Neuf, P. Q. — The following are all of your Coleoptera that we 

 are able to determine as yet ; we shall endeavour to have the rest named for you 

 shortly. {S) Oxytelus sculptus, Gtslv. {p') ffylastes pinif ex, Fitch. {6) Hylastcs? 

 (7) Dinoderus substriatus, Payk. (9) Taeyporus jocosus, Say. (10) Diiolia 

 aerea, Mels. (11) Farta A-notata, Say. (12) Saltica? (14) Fterostichus 

 lucublandus, Say. (15) we take to be an Amara not a Fterostichus ; the species 

 of this genus are very difiBcult to determine ; your specimen differs from all in 

 our cabinet. 



V. S. C, Covington, Ky.— Your letter was received after our article on " Lu- 

 minous Larvae" was in type. The specimen enclosed which, you say, when 

 taken last June, was luminous, and had power to put out its fire at will, is the 

 larva, we think, of a Fhoturis, but different from any that we have. Your com- 

 mon fire-fly is, you state, Fhotinus centrata, Say. ; it is not taken in Canada, our 

 commonest phosphorescent species being Photuris pennsyhanica, DeGeer. Stain^ 

 ton's "Manual," vol. ii. (London, Van Voorst, 1859, price 10s.), contains a 

 synopsis of the genera and species of British Micro-Lepidoptera ; his " Entoiuolo-- 



