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twenty-six plates. In connection with this order attention may be called to the interesting 

 discovery that the large Mantid, Tenodera Sinensis, Saussure, from China and Japan, has 

 been introduced into the United States and has been breeding for at least three years in 

 the vicinity of Philadelphia. 



In regard to Hemiptera, I have already referred at some length to the San Jose" 

 Scale and the work in connection therewith, but mention should also be made of Prof. 

 Oockerell's pamphlet on the other scale insects closely allied to the San Jose Scale and 

 liable to be confounded with it. 



The completion early last year oE Mr. W. H. Edwards's magnificent work on the 

 Butterflies of North America, which was undertaken in 1868, caused something like a 

 pang to those who for so many years had been receiving as they appeared the successive 

 parts of this splendid work, and the hope has been expressed on many sides that the 

 talented author might be willing to undertake the issue of a supplementary volume of, 

 say, twenty-five plates, for which he has ample materials, provided one hundred sub- 

 scribers at $1.00 per plate could be secured. 



But if the closing of Mr. Edwards's labors produced a temporary lull in the issue of 

 beautiful illustrations of our North American butterflies, we are now about to see issued 

 a work which is surely destined to popularize the study of the Lepidoptera on this contin- 

 ent if anything can. 



Dr. Holland, the talented Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania, 

 who has amassed an enormous collection of Lepidoptera, including that of Mr. Edwards 

 with all that author'a types, has undertaken the publication of a large edition of a 

 popular book on the North American butterflies, to be called "The Butterfly Book, 

 A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America," and has 

 authorized me to make the following announcement in regard to it : 



It will be brought out, probably about the end of November, by tb_8 Doubleday & 

 McClure Co. of New York,* and will be illustrated by forty-eight coloured plates 

 done by the same system of photographic reproduction and printing which has become 

 so familiar through the publication on Birds issued monthly by the Nature Study 

 Publishing Co, of Chicago and Ne*r York. These plates will represent 526 species of 

 diurnal lepidoptera, in many cases giving both the upper and under sides of the insect. 

 The figures are, in the main, taken from the type specimens contained in the Edwards 

 collection, and many of the species are represented for the first time, having never 

 previously been figured. In addition to the representations given of the imago, Dr. 

 Scudder has most kindly granted permission to reproduce the plates contained in his 

 Butterflies of New England in which the early stages of these insects are represented. 

 There are, furthermore, to be about 200 cuts in the text, representing anatomical 

 details of structure which are useful in the determination of genera. A cut repre- 

 senting the neuration of each genus is given, and in some cases additional cuts showing 

 the subgeneric forms. Brief descriptions of the imago, egg, caterpillar and chrysalis, 

 when the latter are known, are given in the text. Interlarded in the somewhat dry 

 technical details are extracts from the writings of other authors, which are calculated 

 to interest the general reader, and quotations amusing and pathetic, gathered from 

 out of the mass of butterfly lore. 



All this is to be put before the American and Canadian public in good binding 

 lor the sum of $3.00, but it will be necessary to sell 7,000 copies of the book, unless 

 a monetary less is to result, but surely among the 70,000,000 of the United States 

 and the 5,000,000 of Canada there should be no difficulty in disposing of 7,000 copies 

 of such a book at such a price. 



A fair idea of the character of the plates can be obtained from the rough proofs 

 which Dr. Holland has sent to be shown at this meeting. 



A Canadian edition has been published by Mr. William Briggs, 29-33 Richmond St. West, Toronto. 



