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[218.] 291. HALtica (ORCHESTRIS) PUNCTICOLLIS K7rby.—Plate vii, 
fig. 9.—Length of body 234-3 lines. A single specimen taken in Lat. 
65°. Taken also by Prof. Peck in New England ? 
Body subovate, very black, underneath glossy. Head irregularly 
punctured behind: antennae underneath pieeous at the base: prothorax 
very minutely and lightly punctured, pale-yellow with two black round 
dots in the disk between which above the scutellum is a less black tri. 
angular impression: elytra very minutely and lightly punctured: forebreast 
‘pale-yellow. 
Variety B. Elytra with a blue tint. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGY. 
We are indebted to the kindness of Prof. Townend Glover, Entomolo- 
gist of the Agricultural Department, Washington, for the first part of his 
new illustrated work on our North American insects. This part contains 
thirteen finely colored plates, in which are figured nearly all our described 
Orthoptera. The engravings, which are very beautiful, are from copper 
plates, and are, both in design and execution, the production of the: 
talented author. We deem this work, of which the first number is merely 
introductory, one of very great merit, and sincerely hope that our 
esteemed friend will be enabled to continue it until the whole of his 
_ valuable material, which has cost him many years of patient labor and 
study, and which includes figures of a large proportion of our insects of 
all orders, may be given to the scientific world. 
We observe that this first edition of the first part, of fifty copies only, 
has been generously published at the author’s own expense. It is not to 
be expected that so costly a work could be undertaken by any private 
individual ; we trust, therefore, that the Department of Agriculture, which 
he has so long, ably, and faithfully served, will at once recognize the 
value of his labors, and that upon their recommendation, Congress will, 
with its accustomed liberality in all scientific matters, make such appro- 
priation as may enable the author to give the world the benefit of his 
patient and persevering study; the more especially as this work will treat 
of the many insects injurious to vegetation, and will therefore be of 
immense practical value to Agriculturists as well as to Entomologists. 
