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I have always found this insect in hay fields, generally in timothy or clover, 

 occasionally among wild grasses. I do not recollect ever having taken a specimen in a 

 grain field of any kind. If it has so thoroughly acquired the habit of subsisting upon the 

 cultivated cereals in the West why should it not affect the same plants here, especially if 

 it has been introduced from that section of the country through commercial transportation 1 ? 

 It would be highly interesting to learn of its occurrence in this State at localities distant 

 from main railroad lines. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



The Butterflies of the Eastern United States : by G. H. French, A.M. 



This book is indicative of the progress made in Zoology, and particularly in Ento- 

 mology, in that such work is possible, and that it is appreciated. In a plain, simple, and 

 still complete and thorough way, it presents the facts known about a large and distinct 

 group of living objects, which attract the interested attention of every lover and student 

 of nature. The first question which a student asks of a newly found object is, " what is 

 it?'"' If the object comes within the scope of this volume, this question will be answered 

 easily and satisfactorily. The work has been done carefully and well. The writer has 

 shown his good judgment quite as much in what he has left out, as in what he has put in 

 his book. He has wisely accepted the work which the great body of Entomologists has 

 done before him. He has not felt that a woe rested upon him if he failed to revise, 

 which commonly means to ignore all such work. He has not tried to create a chaos and 

 call it seience. He has evidently preferred to present the facts of this subject, rather than 

 to display himself. Eor what he has done, and for what he has omitted to do, he deserves 

 thanks. The volume is well printed, and its many illustrations, though in many cases 

 familiar, are still the best extant. While we recognize their abundance, we still wish 

 there were more, and hope that it will at some time be possible to figure in such a book 

 every species mentioned. We trust that this work will be followed by others equally 

 meritorious in every division of the wide Entomological field. 



Catalogue of Canadian Plants. Part III. ; Apetalse : by John Macoun, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.R.S.C., Montreal. 1886. 



The last publication issued by the Geological and Natural History Survey forms the 

 third part of Professor Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian Plants. Part I., Polypetalse, and 

 Part II., Gamopetalse, have already been notieed in these pages. Part III., Apetalse, 

 carries the work on to the end of the Exogens and completes Volume I. 



The value of this important work, which is quite indispensable to every student of 

 Canadian botany, is much enhanced by the Addendum and comprehensive index of the 

 whole volume, contained in the present part. In the former we find corrections and 

 additions to the information recorded under each species in Parts I. and II., so as to bring 

 our knowledge of the whole of the plants mentioned down to date, and in the latter not 

 only are the orders, genera and species given, but every synonym also appears. 



By the publication of this work Professor Macoun confers a lasting benefit upon the 

 scientific world. No living botanist has the knowledge of Canadian plants which he has 

 acquired. Possessed of a keen faculty of observation which almost amounts to an instinct, 

 he has had the advantage of travelling extensively and of collecting and studying in their 

 native habitats most of the plants which have been found growing spontaneously in 

 Canada. Moreover, by generously assisting all who apply to him for information, he has 

 secured the hearty co-operation in his work of all the active Botanists in Canada, so that 

 the "Catalogue of Canadian Plants" is not only a record of his own vast experience 

 which extends over a period of more than thirty years of constant study, but also includes 

 the work of all other collectors and Botanists who have investigated or written upon the 

 flora of the Dominion. 



