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young, the distribution of species, etc. ; and the third will be devoted to descrip- 

 tions of the orb weaving fauna of the United States, with coloured illustrations 

 of a number of species. The whole will form one of the most complete works 

 of the kind in the English language. Entomologists will need to have long 

 purses if they wish to possess all the literature of the day, and to procure for 

 themselves such costly and beautiful books as Scudder's and Edwards's Butter- 

 flies and McCook's Spiders. We trust that all who can possibly afford it will aid 

 the authors in their self-sacrificing enterprises by subscribing for their books, but 

 those who cannot do so should use their influence with their local Scientific 

 Societies and Public Libraries and induce those in charge to purchase these 

 valuable works for the general benefit. We are glad to say that the Public 

 Library in Toronto and our Entomological Society have set a good example in 

 this respect and rendered these works available for many of our readers. — c. J. s. B 



Report on Insect and Fungus Pests. No. I. By Henry Tryon, Assistant 

 Curator of the Queensland Museum. Published by the Department of 

 Agriculture, Brisbane, Australia, 1889. 1 Vol., 8vo., pp. 238. 



We have perused with great interest this first work that we have seen on 

 the Economic Entomology of Australia. Some of the pests referred to are very 

 familiar to us here, for instance, the Codling Moth and the Woolly Aphis of the 

 apple tree, while others are species closely allied to those which are very destructive 

 with us. The report takes up different fruits, vegetables and field crops that 

 are most commonly cultivated in the colony, and describes the insects which 

 especially attack them ; as far as possible the life history of each pest is given 

 and remedies are suggested. The work is very carefully and thoroughly done, and 

 will, no doubt, be of great value to the fruit growers and farmers in that part of 

 the world. Its usefulness would of course be greatly enhanced by illustrations oi 

 the insects treated of, but evidently there were difficulties in the way of procuring 

 these that could not at first be overcome. Future reports will doubtless be made 

 popular in this way. The author deserves much credit for the valuable book he 

 has produced. We trust that the Queensland Government will give him all the 

 assistance and encouragement possible in the prosecution of his studies in prac- 

 tical entomology, and enable him to continue a work that is of the utmost 

 economic importance. — c. J. s. B. 



The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. By Lionel de Niceville, 

 Calcutta. -Vols. 124-503 pp. 6 pi. 1890. 8o. 



Some three years or more ago, we noticed a work on the above subject by 

 Marshall and de Nicdvilie, of which two volumes had been published, the last by 

 de Niceville alone. A third volume of over 500 compact pages has just come 

 to hand, the most notable thing about which, at least to a dweller in temperate 

 regions, is that it is wholly concerned with the Lycaenid?e, of which eighty- two 

 genera and over four hundred species are described. Such wealth in these pigmies 

 among butterflies is a striking fact. The author, however, beyond the generic 

 collocation has made no attempt to classify this immense assemblage, contenting 

 himself with only distinguishing certain groups of genera by the name of one 

 of the included genera, as the " Thecla group," etc., which groups are character- 

 ised in a general but not formal way in the body of the work. These agree 

 tolerably well with the groups Doherty had previously characterised from the 

 egg alone, but are about twice as numerous and are established mainly upon the 



