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The Butterflies of North America. By W. H. Edwards. Third Series, Part II. 



The second part of the new series of this superb work contains the usual three 

 exquisitely finished coloured plates of butterflies. The first illustrates the Californian 

 Colias Harfordii Hy. Edwards, and its variety Barbara, giving no less than nine pictures 

 of the imagines, and more than a dozen of the earlier stages ; the second Argynnis Goronis 

 Behr., giving both the upper and under surfaces of the male and female of this beautiful 

 Californian species, which extends northward as far as our own Northwest Territory, 

 where it has been taken by Capt. Gamble Geddes ; the third plate fully illustrates all the 

 stages of Neonympha Gemma Hubn. and N. Henshawi Edw. There is the usual letter- 

 press description of all the species figui*ed, and also a notice of Argynnis Callippe Boisd. 

 It is hardly necessary to add that no Lepidopterist's library can be considered complete 

 without a copy of this admirable work. 



Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests during the year 

 1886, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy. By Eleanor A. Ormerod, 8vo., 112 

 pages. London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 



We must congratulate our esteemed friend upon the publication of her Tenth Report. 

 It is full of interesting matter and well illustrated with excellent wood-cuts, chiefly the 

 work of the talented authoress. The principal noxious insects treated of are " Earwigs" 

 affecting cabbage — a pest that we are happily free from in this country ; Clover Weevils, 

 the Hessian Fly and other wheat insects, the Hop Aphis, Mustard Beetles, the Horse and 

 Ox Warble-flies, etc. Economic Entomologists everywhere may learn much from these 

 pages ; though the insects treated of are for the most part British, many of them have 

 been transported to this side of the Atlantic and to other distant regions, where they have 

 wrought incalculable damage to crops of various kinds. 



Synopsis of the Hymenoptera of America, North of Mexico. By E. T. Cresson. Part I. 

 Families and Genera. 8vo., 154 pages. 



This valuable work, published as a supplementary volume by the American Entomo- 

 logical Society in Philadelphia, is a very much needed contribution to the literature of 

 this difficult order of insects. With this assistance towards classification, we trust that 

 many will be encouraged to collect and study these particularly interesting creatures. 



Transactions of the American Entomological Society, and Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Philadelphia. Vol. xiii., 1886. 



This volume is replete, as usual, with papers of high scientific value by such well- 

 known authorities as Dr. Horn on Coleoptera, Messrs. Ashmead, Blake, and Howard on 

 Hymenoptera, The Rev. Messrs. Holland and Hulst on Lepidoptera, and Prof. Willisto.n 

 on Diptera. 



The Mulberry Silk-worm ; being a Manual of Instructions in Silk Culture. By Prof. 

 C. V. Riley. Bulletin No. 9. Division of Entomology, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



