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Psyche 8:439-?, 1897.

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December iS~>q.] PSYCHE. 438
PERSONAL NOTES.- Mr. R, E. Snod-
grass, instructor in Entomology in Stanford University, has just returned from a ten months' collecting trip to the Galapagos Islands. He brings back a large collection of insects, including an especially large series of Aci'idiidae from all the islands of the group and a large number of Mallophagit taken from the bird& of the islands. The collection belongs to the department of ento- mology of Stanford University, and will be studied by well-known American specialists. Mr. W. A. Snow, son of Chancellor F. H.
Snow of the University of Kansas, and an entomologist known for his systematic stud- ies on the Uiptera, was drowned in the har- bor of Sim Francisco on October 10. Mr.
Snow was swept overboard from a small
launch while greeting General Fnnston and the 20th Kansas Volunteers just returned from Manila. Mr. Snow had been iin assist- ant or instructor in entomology in the Uni- versity of Kansas, in the University of Itli- nois and in Stanford University.
Published by Henry Holt & Co., New York. Scudder's Brief Guide to the c&-
moner Butterflies.
By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. xi + 206 pp.
13mo. $1.25.
An introduction, for the young student, to the names and something of the relationship and lives of our commoner butterflies. The author has selected for treatment the buttcr- flies, less than one hundred in number, which would be almost surely met with by an in- dustrious collector in a course of a year's or two year's work in our Northern States east of the Great Plains, and in Canada. While all the apparatus necessary to identify these butterflies, in their earlier as well as perfect stage, is supplied, it is far from the author's pinpose to treat them as if they wereso many mere postage-stamps to be classified and ar- ranged in a cabinet. He has accordingly
added to the descriptions of the different spe- cies, their most obvious stages, some of the curious facts concerning their periodicity and their habits of life.
Scudder's The Life of a Butterfly.
A Chapter in Natural History for
the General Reader.
By SAMUEL H. SCUDDBR. 186 pp. 16rno.
$1.00. ,
In this book the author has tried to present in untechnical language the story of the life of one of our most conspicuous American
butterflies. At the same time, by introduc- ing into the account of its anatomy, devel- opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonal changes some comparisons with the more or less dissimilar structure and life of other but- terflies, and particularly of our native forms, he has endeavored to give, in some fashion and in brief space, a general account of the lives of the whole tribe. By using a single butterfly as a special text, one may discourse at pleasure of many ; and in the limited field which our native butterflies cover, this meth- od has a certain advantage from its simplicity and directness.
Guide to the Genera and Classification of the Orthoptera of North America north of Mexico. By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. go pp. 8O. Contains keys for the determination of the higher groups as well as the (nearly zoo) genera of our Orthoptera, with full bibliographical aids to further study.
Sent by mail on receipt of price ($1.00). E. W. WHEELER, 30 BOYLSTOX STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MASS:



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[December 1899,
A NEW VOLUME OF PSYCHE
begins in January, 1900, and continues through three years. The subscription price (payable in advance) is $5.00 per volume, or $2.00 per year, postpaid. Numbers are issued on the first day of each month. Libraries and individuals generally ordering thio~~gh subscription agencies (which only take annual sub- scriptions) will please notice that it is cheaper to subscribe for the entire volume at once directly of us.- Any early volume can be had for $5.00, unbound. Address Psyche, Cambridge, Mass.
Vols. 18, Complete, Unbound - - - - - - $37.00. Vols. 1-8, and Subscription to Volume 9 - = = - $41.00. Vol. 8 contains about 450 pp. and 8 plates, besides other illustrations. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, With special reference to New England. By SAMUEL 13. SCUDDER. Illustrated with 96 plates of Butterflies, Caterpillars, Chrysalids, etc. (of which 41 are colored) which include about 2,000 Figures besides Maps and portraits. 1958 Pages of Text.
Vol. I. Introduction; Nymphalidae.
Vol. 2. Remaining Families of Butterflies. Vol. 3. Appendix, Plates and Index.
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