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This magnificent work is in quarto form, consists of 607 pages and 13 beautifully 

 engraved plates, six being devoted to venation, one to anatomical details, and the 

 remaining six to the perfect insects and a few larvae and pupae. These six plates con- 

 tain no less than 389 figures of moths, and thirty-six figures of larvae and pupae. The 

 work embraced all species of this group known to Dr. Packard up to the date of its 

 publication, and is indeed wonderfully complete. 



For the Pyralidae I know of no exhaustive work, but for the Phycitidae the paper by 

 the Eev. Geo. D. Hulst in the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. XVII., 1890, and obtainable sep- 

 arately, I believe, for about one dollar, should be studied. This paper consists of 136 

 pages and three plates illustrative of structure and venation. 



For the Crarnbidae, Prof. Fernald's recent monograph of eighty pages, with its three 

 plates of venation and structural details, and its six exquisite colored plates of the species 

 is all that could be desired, but for the Tortricidae there is no reasonably complete work 

 at a moderate price One of the earliest illustrated papers was that by the late Coleman 

 T. Robinson, published in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. II., 1869, which was intended to be the 

 first of a series to include the whole of the species found in the U. S. This first paper 

 illustrated with six beautifully colored plates, embraced descriptions of no less than 

 seventy species, but the project was cut short by the untimely death of Mr. Robinson. 

 Since that event the chief work issued on that group is that of Lord Walsingham, eighty- 

 four pages, quarto, with seventeen colored plates, published by the trustees of the British 

 Museum, but this is a somewhat expensive work, costing £2. 



I do not know of any general work on the Tineina. 



In regard to catalogues and check lists, there is no general catalogue of North 

 American Lepidoptera. For a mere check list I would recommend that issued by 

 Prof. J. B Smith, with the assistance of Dis. Skinner, Hulst, Fernald and Riley, which 

 is sold at $1.00. 



For the butterflies Edwards's " Revised Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera," issued in 

 1884 is to be recommended, though Dr. Strecker's catalogue, issued in 1878 at the cost 

 of S2.00, though having certain defects, contains much useful informal ion and more com- 

 plete references. 



For the Sphingidae, Zygaeaidae and Bombycidae, using the latter term in its older 

 sense, there is no American catalogue, but they are, of course, embraced in Kirby's world- 

 wide catalogue of Sphinges and Bombyces, with the exception of some of the groups, such 

 as the ^Egeriadae, which he excludes, but this is an expensive work costing £2 4s 



For the Noctuidae we are indebted to Prof. J. B. Smith for a comprehensive cata- 

 logue of 424 pages, which is obtainable for $2.50. 



Other works might be mentioned with commendation but the selection has been 

 purposely restricted to those which are most indispensable. 



Of books on the other orders of insects I am not competent to speak, but for any- 

 one who is primarily interested in the economic relations of butterflies or other insects no 

 works can be more highly recommended than " Insects Injurious to Fruits," by Dr. Wm, 

 Saunders, and Prof. J. B. Smith's " Economic Entomology." 



It is, doubtless, impossible to do much in the entomological line without some books, 

 but by a judicious selection ten or twenty dollars may be laid out to purchase a very fair 

 selection of the most useful works for a beginner, and then other works could be added 

 as one's interest in the subject developed and one's means would admit. 



SOME HOUSEHOLD INSECTS. 



By Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, Port Hope. 



So many enquiries are repeatedly made respecting common insects that frequent 

 houses and cause annoyance to the inmates, or damage to household goods and provisions, 



