22 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 



IDENTIFICATION 



Several popular leaflets for the identification of our more com- 

 mon or popular insects (e. g., butterflies) have been published by the 

 Museum and may be purchased for a nominal sum. Others are being 

 prepared and the study collections at the Museum are open to students 

 upon appUcation. The Butterfly Book and The Moth Book, both 

 by Holland, are recommended for work in those groups. Blatchley's 

 Coleoptera of Indiana is useful for students of beetles, except snout- 

 beetles and their relatives, even along the Atlantic coast. For those 

 beetles omitted in Blatchley, see Blatchley and Lang's book on The 

 Rhyncophora of the Eastern States; both these books, however, are 

 for professionals and advanced amateurs, rather than for beginners. 

 Comstock's Manual for the Study of Insects and Kellogg's American 

 Insects give good surveys of American entomology, especially as regards 

 anatomy and the broader phases of the subject. The author's Field 

 Book of Insects (Putnam's) is intended to answer ''common questions 

 about insects," and to enable the beginner to identifj^ about 1,000 of the 

 more frequently seen or more interesting species. Volumes V and VI 

 of the Cambridge Natural History form the best world-wide treatise in 

 EngUsh. 



FINALLY 



Do not forget that information about the insects is usually of as 

 much value as the specimens — or more. 



