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Psyche 6:494, 1891.

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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.
read a letter from Mr. H. B. Fletcher of England who assured him that he had found CAMBRIDGE ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB.
the eggs and caterpillars on two species of 10 March, 1893.-The 177th meeting was
Tropaeolum, one of the Geraniaceae.
held at 156 Brattle St. Mr. S. Henshaw was Mr. Scudder also exhibited numerous chosen chairman and Mr. H. G. Dyar secre- specimens of Schistocerca liierosaWalk., from tary.
the Galapagos Islands and showed the differ- Mr. S. H. Scudder directed attention to a ences between the races inhabiting three passage in his Butterflies of the Eastern United distinct islands. In some further remarks States, where he had questioned whether upon the orthoptera of the Galapagos, he Tropaeolum was one of the food plants of said that the paucity of species and their Pieris rapae, as he thought there might be a character in no way supported Baur's notion confusion from the fact that the caterpillar that these islands formed part of a sunken fed upon the genus Nasturtium which was continent, but decidedly indicated a recent the common name of Tropaeolum; but he accidental fauna. JUST PUBLISHED.
Scudder's Brief Guide to the Corn-
Scudder's The Life of a Butterfly.
moner Butterflies.
A Chapter in Natural History for
BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, author of -BU~-
the General Reader.
tei-flies of the Eastern United States and BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. 186 pp. 16mo. Canada,"etc. xi + 206 pp. 12mo. $1.21;. $TOO. An introduction, for the young student, to In this book the author has tried to present the names and something of the relationship in untechnical language the story of the life and lives of our commoner butterflies.
The
of one of our most conspicuous American
author has selected for treatment the butter- butterflies. At the same time, by introduc- flies, less than one hundred in number, which ing into the account of its anatomy, devel-
would be almost surely met with by an in- opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonal dustrious collector in a course of a year's or changes some comparisons with the more 01- two year's work in our Northern States east less dissimilar structure and life of other but- of the Great Plains, and in Canada. While terflies, and particularly of our native forms, all the apparatus necessary to identify these he has endeavored to give, in some fashion butterflies, in their earlier as well as perfect and in brief space, a general account of the stage, is supplied, it is far from the author's lives of the whole tribe. By using a single purpose to treat them as if they were so many butterfly as a special text, one may discourse mere postage-stamps to be classified and ar- at pleasure of many; and in the limited field ranged in a cabinet.
He has accordingly which our native butterflies cover, this meth- added to the descriptions of the different spe- od has a certain advantage from its simplicity cies, their most obvious stages, some of the and directness. curious facts concerning their periodicity and their habits of life. A short introduction to the study of butterflies in general is prefixed HENRY HOLT & CO.,
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