108 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



finally secured it in a door-way, mucli to the astonishment of the surrounding 

 public, who evidently thought me an escaped lunatic, and did not seem one 

 whit the wiser when I informed them of the name of my prize. I also took 

 recently a specimen of that pretty and rare beetle Gnorimus maculosus. — 

 E. B. Reed, LocdoD, Ont. 



London Branch. — You will be glad, Mr. Editor, to learn that Entomology 

 is still progressing with us, and that it has lately obtained a start in a fair 

 and fresh field. The Head Master of Hellrauth College, the Rev. A. Sweat- 

 man, has procured a cabinet for the school, and is giving every encouragement 

 to the' boys to take an interest in the science ; and a New York gentleman, 

 Mr. Gordon, the father of one of the pupils, has very liberally offered two 

 prizes for the best collection of specimens procured during the holidays, and 

 to be presented to the College cabinet. — E. B. Reed, London, Ont. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Lepidopterist'' s Guide, intended for the use of the Young Collector, 

 containing full instructions for the Collecting, Management, Observation, 

 and Preservation of Lepidoptera, in all their stages. By H. Guard Knaggs, 

 M.D., F.L.S. London : Van Voorst, Paternoster Row, E. C. (Price, 

 Is. 6d. stg.) 



We have, time and again, recomniended our readers and correspondents to 

 procure Dr. Packard's Guide, and we hope that most of them have invested 

 in it by this time : we now advise- such of them as collect Lepidoptera to lay 

 out a little more of their hard cash in the purchase of Dr. Knaggs' Guide, for 

 though both are ' guides,^ and trust worthy ones too, they do not pull in 

 opposite directions, but lead the faithful follower to a very fair knowledge of 

 Entomology. The work before us, whose title we have given in full above, 

 while modestly put forth as for the use of young collectors, is one from which 

 very few old hands would not learn a good deal well worth knowing; it is, 

 indeed, if not the best, at any rate one of the best, manuals of practical 

 instruction in a particular branch of natural history that has ever been 

 published. Full and clear instructions are given for first getting hold of and 

 then looking after and taking care of Lepidoptera in every stage of their 

 existence, from the new laid egg to the perfectly developed fly. From being 

 a book of instructions, some may think that it must be a pretty dry sort of 

 affair — like, for instance, the drill books at the Military School-^-but we can 

 assure them that it is quite the reverse, being really most interesting and 

 amusing; some parts of it would even entertain the only too numerous indi- 

 viduals who do not know a bug from a butterfly ! 



