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Japanese species, collected in 1887 by Dr. Holland during bis visit to 

 Japan as the naturalist of the United States Eclipse Expedition of that 

 year. In all, over 4,000 species of Khopalocera are found in the collec- 

 tion, the genus Papilio alone having more than 250 species correctly eti- 

 quetted in the drawers allotted to them. 



In the Heterocera the collection is also rich. By i)urchase Dr. Holland 

 has obtained the entire collection of the Hyiienidie and Pyralidic of 

 Japan, made by the late Henry Pryer, of Yokohama. This collection, 

 the formation of which occui)ied Mr. Pryer seventeen years, is being 

 made the basis of an elaborate monograph of the Pyralidae of Japan by 

 Dr. Holland, in the preparation of w^hicli he will have the assistance of 

 Prof. C. H. Fernald and others. 



Recent entomological Publications.— During the i^ast few months a num- 

 ber of very important American entomological publications have been 

 received. We do not feel the same latitude in x^ublishing critical re- 

 views in Inse ct Life as we should in a private periodical, but impor- 

 tant publications should receive some attention at our hands, if only a 

 mere announcement of their publication, for Insect Life reaches a 

 large class of readers whose means of ascertaining just what has been 

 published in an entomological line are otherwise slight. 



The first part of Professor Comstock's '' Introduction to Entomology " 

 was received some two months since. The title reads, "An Introduc- 

 tion to Entomology, by John Henry Comstock, Professor of Eutoinol- 

 ogy and General Invertebrate Zoolog}^ in Cornell University, and for- 

 merly' United States Entomologist, with manj^ original illustrations 

 drawn and engraved by Anna Botsford Comstock, Ithaca, N. Y.; i)ub- 

 lished by the author, 1888." This first part is a volume of 234 pages, 

 comprising 201 illustrations, and considers the orders Thysanura, Pseu- 

 doneuroptera, Orthoptera, Physopoda, Hemiptera, and ]!s'europtera, 

 leaving the Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, and Hymenoptera for the 

 second and concluding part. The work is designed i)rimarily as a text- 

 book. Price $2. 



Mr. John B. Smith's monograph of the " Sphingidae of America ]S'orth 

 of Mexico "has just been published by the American Entomological 

 Society, Philadelphia. It is a work of 195 pages, based largely on 

 work and material at the National Museum, and is illustrated by nine 

 plates, the i^lates referring mainly to anal characters and wing-vena- 

 tion, 



Dr. Lintner's fourth report on the injurious and other insects of the 

 State of Xew York has also recently come to hand. Dr. Lintner uses 68 

 text figures, and his re^jort, including indices, covers 237 pages. 



The first and second i)arts of Mr. Scudder's long contemplated work, 

 entitled '-Butteifiies of the Eastern United States and Canada, with 

 special reference to Kew England," have also been received. The work 

 is published by the author and is very elaborate, the illustrations form- 



