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fesses to some uncertainty as to whether the Plum Curculio really 
occurs in Australia, and the article is introduced upon this uncer- 
tainty. As in Part I the volume concludes with some consideration of 
fruit and grain-eating birds and lists of materials for the destruction 
of insects and of insecticide machinery. The volume marks a distinct 
advance upon its predecessor, particularly in the illustrations, which are 
reproduced in a very superior manner. Original drawings were made 
by Mr. G. C. Brittlebank under Mr. French's direction. 
Manual of New Zealand Entomology.* — TTe have not before noticed 
Mr. G. H. Hudson's interesting book published under the above title 
last year. It is a handsome little volume of 120 pages and with many 
colored plates, nearly all of which are well executed. The work con- 
sists of some observations on the anatomy of insects in general, a pop- 
ular definition of the seven Linnean orders, a chapter on methods of 
collecting, and a systematic consideration of certain types of families 
arranged according to classificatory position. By a rather curious 
arrangement this consideration begins with the Coleoptera and ends 
with the Hemriptera. The author seems to have made a large number 
of important personal observations on the life histories of different 
species. Owing to the restricted size of the volume only a small pro- 
portion of the families are thus considered, but as a general thing the 
accounts are fall and presumably accurate and at the same time are 
written in a most interesting and rather popular style. Every insect 
treated is figured upon a colored plate, usually in the larval stage and 
sometimes in the pupal stage as well as in the adult. This method of 
taking a single type of each family treated is, perhaps, as good a one 
as could have been chosen for a work of this extent. The insects are 
many of them strange in appearance and some of the observations 
upon life histories are new to science. The only matters in the volume 
which are open to criticism are the ancient classification and certain 
mispelled family names. The book is well calculated to excite an inter- 
est in entomology and this is the avowed purpose for which it was 
written. 
*An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology for Introduction to the 
Study of our Native Insects. With twenty-one colored plates. By G. V. Hudson, 
F. E. S. Wellington, New Zealand. London. West, Newman & Co., 1892. 
