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Packards' Guide to the Study of Insects. Part 5, January 1869. 



Price 50 cents. 



This part contains a continuation of tlie order Lepidoptera, bringing down 

 the account as far as the beginning of the Geometridce. It is illustrated with 

 two beautiful plates of Telea polyphemus, and about sixty wood-cuts. All 

 our collectors of this favourite order ought to obtain at any rate the parts of 

 this work that relate to it. 



BOOKS EECEIVED. 



The American Naturalist. Vol. I, No. 12, Feb. 1869. (Completing the 

 volume). 



Le Naturaliste Canadien, Bulletin des recherches, observations et décou- 

 vertes se rapportant a l'histoire naturelle du Canada. No. 1. Décembre, 



1868. Quebec. 



The first number of this new magazine, the prospectus of which we noticed 

 in our last issue, is now before us» It consists of 24 octavo pages, with a 

 wrapper, and is illustrated by a wood-cut of the Beaver ( Castor fiber). Be- 

 sides much other interesting matter it contains a description of a new species 

 of Hymenoptera,-— Z7rocerws tricolor, Provancher, which is stated to bear 

 some resemblance to TJ. Cressoni, Norton. 



The Editor, in his introductory remarks, states that there are about a mil- 

 lion French-speaking inhabitants in the Dominion of Canada, and hence 

 infers that the time has come when they should have an organ in their own 

 language specially devoted to Natural History. We certainly quite agree 

 with him, and trust that his enterprise will be so abundantly successful as to 

 utterly confute those prophets of evil who venture to characterise it as a fool- 

 hardy and ruinous undertaking. 



Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Vol. XII, Dec. 

 2, 1868. 



Transactions of the American Entomological Society. Vol. I. No. 2. 

 Containing numerous descriptions of new species of Hymenoptera by Cresson 

 and Norton ; Lepidoptera by Edwards, Grote, and Kobinson ; Coleoptera by 

 Horn, Le Conte, and Zimmermann ; and two splendid plates of Lepidoptera. 

 Among the descriptions of new species of this last mentioned order, we notice 

 two from Canada : — Plusia Mappa, G. and E. taken by Mr. Bowles at Que- 

 bec, and Thecla Ontario, Edw., taken by Mr Reed at Port Stanley. (C. E. 

 No. 3. p. 21). 



The Canada Farmer. Toronto. January, 1869^ 



The Maine Farmer. Augusta, Me. Dec. 26, 1868; Jan. 2, 9, 1869. 

 The WeeMy N. T. Sun. New York. Jan. 27, Feb. 3, 10, 1869. 



