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THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The BuTTERrLiES of North America — ^with 

 Colored Drawings and Descriptions, by 

 Wm. II. Edwards. Publisbed bj' the American 

 Entomological Society, Philadelphia. — Part 4 of 

 this magnificent work has been received. It 

 contains descriptions and plates of Argynnis 

 leio, Behr., CoUas JEurytheme, Boisd., Colias 

 Keewaydin, n. sp. Thecla onLm-io, Edwards, 

 and Limenitis Weidemeyerii, Edwards ; to- 

 gether with the continuation of the Synopsis. 

 Price $2.50. Orders should be sent to E. T. 

 Cresson, 518 S. Thirteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Annals of Bee Culture for 1869 — Being 

 a Bee-keeper's Year Book — From D. L. Adair, 

 Editor, Ilawesville, Ky. This is a verj'- neat 

 little pamphlet of C4 pages, and treats of many 

 subjects that are of vital importance to the Bee- 

 keeper. As the editor well remarks, a publica- 

 tion of this kind is needed to collect in small and 

 convenient compass the advancements now 

 being made each j'car in the art of Apicul- 

 ture. We wish Mr. Adair success, and would 

 suggest that a full index of the subjects treated 

 of, would add value to the next number. Sub- 

 scriptions received by the editor. Price 50c. 



Illustrated Catalogue of Grape Vines — 

 Isidor Bush & Sons, Bushberg, Mo. — The best 

 catalogue of tlie kind that we ever knew to be 

 p)ublished in the West. It is well illustrated 

 and full of practical information. The authors 

 have evidently endeavored to make it valuable 

 and interesting regardless of cost. Tliej' clearly 

 have no special axe to grind, and in their eflbrts 

 to establish a reputation as Grape growers and 

 Ijropagators, we wish them every success. 



Good Health — A monthly Journal of 

 Physical and Mental Culture. Boston, Mass. 

 .$2.00. 



The Rural Carolinian, Charleston, S. C. — 

 A new monthly agricultural Journal of excel- 

 lent appearance, f 2.00 a year. 



Missouri Dental Journal — A monthly de- 

 voted to the specialty of Dentistry. St. Louis, 

 Mo. $3.00 a year. 



Second Annual Eeport of the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Nebraska. — From 

 E. W. Furnas, President. 



The Minnesota Monthly. — ^D. A. Kobert- 

 son, Editor and Proprietor, St. Paul, Minn. 

 $2.00 a year. 



Condition and Doings of the Boston 

 Society op Natural History. Boston, 18C9. 



Grape List of the Cliff Cave Wine Co. of 

 St. Louis, Mo., C. W. Spaulding, Pi-esident. 



A Guide to the Study of Insects — By A. 

 S. Packard, Jr., M. D., Salem, Mass. Parts 

 VII, VIII and IX of this work have been 

 received, and are equal in value to those parts 

 which have preceded them. Part VII concludes 

 the Diptera and commences the Coleoptera. 

 Part VIII continues the Coleoptera, and Part 

 IX contains the Ilemiptera and commences the 

 Orthoptera. Each Part 50 cents. We shall 

 probably notice this work at greater length 

 when once completed. 



Illinois Horticultural Society. — ^We have 

 received from the Secretary, W. C. Flagg, a 

 circular calling attention to the Fourteenth 

 Annual Meeting of this Society, which will be 

 held at the Court House in Ottawa, on Tues- 

 day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, De- 

 cember 14th, loth, ICth and 17th, 1809, com- 

 mencing at 9 o'clock A. M. on Tuesday. 



The Chronicle — University of Michigan. 

 $2.50 a year. 



American Journal of HoMCEorATHic Ma- 

 teria Medica — Philadelphia. $2.00 a year. 



Beloit College Monthly — Beloit, Wise. 

 $1.50 a year. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Notice. — Sucli of our correspondents as have already 

 seut, or may liereafter send, smalt collections of insects 

 to be named, will please to inform us if any of the 

 species seut are from otlier States than their own. 

 Lists of insects found in any particular locality are of 

 especial interest, as throwing lijfht upon the geograph- 

 ical distribution of species. But to make them of real 

 value, it is requisite that we know for certain, 

 whether or not all the insects in any particular list come 

 from that particular locality, and if not, from what 

 locality they do come. 



I^ocust Borer — Juluin JBagliy, Cedar Fork, Mo. — 

 The prettily banded black and yellow beetle, found on 

 your Locust trees, is the common Locust Borer (^fcAo- 

 2>alus roliiiiice, Foerster.) It is a § specimen, and as the$ 

 ol this species is absolutely undistinguishable from tlie 

 5 of A. pidim. Drury, which attacks Hickory, and 

 comes out in ,Jiuie, we are guided simply, in our decis- 

 ion, by the fact of your finding it on Locust in the 

 month of September. (See on this point our answer to 

 ^y. W. Buttertield on page 118 of Vol. 1.) 



Cocoon found on Carj>et — A. A. Billiard, 

 Brighton, Ills. — The coeoou found embedded in your 

 IJarlor carpet, was that of some unlcnown moth. Tlie larva 

 was doid>tless a vegetable-feeder, and had simply crawl- 

 ed into your room and made use of the carpet to help 

 build its cocoon. All manner of material is used by 

 different caterpillars for the external covering of their 

 cocoons, uot excepting hard wood. 



Directions for making' boxes tor preserving: 

 insects.— If " Subscriber," St. Louis, Mo., will send 

 us Ills name and address we will send him printed 

 directions. 



