INSECTA, 
m 
De Marseul has in a measure adopted the scheme of this 
pamphlet in his " Nouvelles et faits divers/^ exclusively relating 
to Coleoptera. 
B. Separate Works. 
Harris, Thaudeus William, Entomological Correspondence of. 
(Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural His- 
tory, i.) Edited by Samuel H. Scudder. Boston, 186r, 
pp. 375. 
This volume contains : — a memoir of Harris by T. W. Higgin- 
son ; a list (with titles, dates, and references) of Harrises writings, 
and his entomological correspondence with Hentz, Melshei- 
mer. Doubleday, Herrick, Le Conte, Morris, Say, Zimmerman, 
Darling, Le Baron and Higginson. As appendices, it also con- 
tains : — descriptions of the larvse of many American insects, 
with memoranda of their metamorphoses, habits, &c. ; descrip- 
tions of a few species (OrthopterOy Neuroptera, Hemiptera and 
Biptera), selected from Harrises MS. j reprints of the original 
descriptions in the 'New England Farmer^ (1826-30) of several 
species, chiefly Coleoptera ; and some passages of the first edition 
of the ' State Report on Insects,^ omitted from the third edition. 
There are 46 woodcuts, reproduced from Harrises drawings, a 
portrait of Plarris, and 4 plates, relating chiefly to the earlier 
stages of Lepidoptera, of which the first two are coloured. 
Packard, Jr., A. S. A guide to the study of Insects, and a 
Treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops. For the 
use of Colleges, Farm Schools, and Agriculturists. Ten 
plates and about 600 woodcuts. 8vo. Salem. 
This work, noticed at some length in the 'Record^ for 1868, 
was completed by the issue, in October, 1869, of part x. (part v. 
having appeared in January, 1869). 
. Record of American Entomology for the year 1868. 
This work, published by the Peabody Academy of Sciences, 
Salem, Mass., is edited by Packard, who undertakes the Hymeno^ 
pteray Lepidoptera [Heterocera) y and Arachnida. He is assisted 
by Scudder in the Lepidoptera {Rhopalocera) and Orthoptera ; 
by Osten-Sacken in Dipteray Leconte in Coleopteray Uhler in 
Hemiptera and Neuropteray and Hagen in Pseudo-scorpions. 
This volume refers to 402 new species of North- American insects, 
described in American journals during 1868; and it is intended 
that subsequent volumes shall also contain notices of such Ame- 
rican species as are published in Europe. 
Packard, Jr., A. S. First Annual Report of the Trustees of 
the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Mass., Jan. 
1869 ; Appendix to Report on Articulata (p. 56 et seq.). 
Contains a List of Hymenopterous and Lepidopterous Insects 
