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where it was once alarmingly abundant, that this is possible, if money is supplied and if it 

 is given at the time when it can be made use of to the best advantage. On pages 38 to 

 93 of the report will be found an instructive account of the constant efforts of the Com- 

 mittee to get funds to carry on the work properly, and year after year it was the same 

 story of reduced, and what was almost wcrse, delayed appropriations, resulting in the 

 necessity of modifying the whole plan of work arranged for the year, so that instead of 

 making vigorous efforts for the extermination of the insect, and fighting it at the time 

 this could be most effectively done — early in the season, when the caterpillars were small 

 — all that could be done was to try and prevent the further spread of the enemy from the 

 localities known to be infested. The appropriations which have been made for this work 

 are considerable, about $525,000 up to the present time, and this amount would certainly 

 have produced far I etter results, could the Committee have obtained the grants at the 

 time they required them, so that they could have begun the work early in the season and 

 continued employing, from year to year, those assistants who had been taught, at an ex- 

 pense of much time and trouble, what was required of them. J. F. 



Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests During 

 the Year 1895, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy. Nineteenth Re- 

 port, by Eleanor A. Ormerod, F. R. Met. Soc, etc. 



This splendid report fully sustains the high standard of excellence which has charac- 

 terized Miss Ormerod's previous publications. The preface shows that the unusual and 

 prolonged low temperature cf the winter of 1894 95 had apparently but little affected the 

 insects which it might be supposed to destroy. 



The following pests are treated of in separate chapters : Apple, Smerinthus ocellatus; 

 bean, Bmchus rufimanus and B fabce j cabbagp, Ceutorhynchus sulcicollis ; corn and 

 grass, Charceas graminis, Cetonia aurata, Phyllopertha horticola, Melolontha vulgaris, 

 Rhizotrogus solstitiahs, Tipula muculosa and Osciuis frit; gooseberry, Bryobia prceti- 

 osa, B ribis and Nernatus ribesii ; mangolds, Aphis rumicis, SUphaopaca and Atomaria 

 linearis ; orchard caterpillars, Cheimatobia brumata ; pine, Astynomus cedilis and Reiinia 

 buoliana ; plum, Scolytus rugulosus ; strawberry, Harpahis rvpZcomis, Pteroslichus ma~ 

 didus and P. vulgaris ; turnip, Helophorus ruqosus. 



The ravages of the bean weevil appear to have been serious, and those of the ground 

 beetles, upon the strawberry, have been more extensive than in previous years. Ninety- 

 three pages are occupied with the discussion of the above mentioned insects, while fifty are 

 allotted to " Flies injurious to horses, cattle," etc. These chapters are exceedingly inter- 

 esting, and several species of Hippoboscidae, Tabanidas, and GE^tridae, which are very an- 

 noying and injurious to domestic animals, are fully and clearly discussed. In connection 

 with the account, of the attacks of the Forest Fly, Hippobosca, equina, are given two mag- 

 niBcent plates showing upper and side views of the foot of this fly, the tarsi of which are 

 so modified as to enable it to secure a most firm grip on the hairs of the animal upon which 

 it alights. The report concludes with a chapter on Deer and Dog Ticks, very troublesome 

 mites belonging to the Ixodidse W. H. H. 



British Butterflies, by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., London : George Gill & Sons, 1896. Pp. 

 469. (Price 5s.) 



It is only a few months since we spoke in terms of commendation of Mr. Tutt's 

 Manual of the British Moths, and now we have before us an even better work on the 

 butterflies by the same industrious author. About one-fourth of the book is taken up with 

 the general subject, presenting a series of chapters on the four life stages of butterflies, 

 their variation and its causes, hibernation and aestivation, classification, collecting, arrang- 

 ing and preserving specimens, and the inflation of larvae These are written in the 

 authoi's pleasant, easy style, with which his previous works have made ua familiar, and 

 convey much information of interest to buttei fly-hunters everywhere. We are glad to 

 observe that he insists very strongly upon the importance of labelling specimens with the 

 place and date of capture, though the English mode of using short pins and setting the 

 specimens low down makes this a matter of difficulty. 



