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June 1897.] PST’CHE. 83

tennae cases firmly united in one piece atemergence; basal parts of first legs entirelyconcealed, the maxillae reaching down thecenter to the tip of case. Abdominal seg-Inents punctured.

THE BUTTERFLIES OF HILDESHEIM.

OUR countryman, Mr. A. R. Grote, has

signalized his appointment to the charge ofthe Roemer Museum in Hildesheim byestablishing an issue of papers under the titleMittheilungen. These appear by numbers inimperial octavo, very handsomely printed andillustrated. No. 8 is concerned with thebutterflies of Hildesheim and is by Mr. Grotehimself, as four previous numbers have been(44 PP., 4 pl.) Its subject would not muchinterest American naturalists did the papernot go far beyond what the title indicates,being mostly concerned with a generalclassification of butterflies (or at least thoseof Hildesheim), which in several pointsdiffers materially from classifications in

vogue, if any can be called in vogue in thistime of flux.

Butterflies are first divided into two greatgroups, the Parnassi-Papilionidae and the

PierioHesperiidae. The first contains the1/wo groups indicated by its title, regarded asfamilies. The second includes ten families,which in their order downward are Pieridae,Nymphalidae, Agapetidae (Satyridae), Lim-nadidae (Danaidae), Libytheidae, Nemeo-biidae Nemeobius lucina) Riodinidae(Erycinidae-- non European), Lycaenidae,Hesperiidae and Megathymidae (Megathy-musNan American type). The last fivefamilies Grote looks upon as an early andsimultaneous offshoot fl’om the Pieri-Hesper-idian stem, which last culminated in thePieridae, but on its way thereafter threw offthe branch which included the remainingfamilies, in the order Libytheidae, Limnaodidae and Agapetidae.The scheme is based solely on the wing-

neuration and has its merits and demerits onthis ground. The most striking innovationis the primary subdivision which ignoresprevious dichotomy by leaving the Hesperi-idae in conjunction with others; a minor oneis the separation, with family signification, ofNemeobius fl’om the Riodinidae; it showsthe length to which one may go in discussingclassification from a single standpoint.

Guide to the Genera and Classification of the Orthoptera of North Americanorth of Mexico. By SAMUEL H. SCVDDRR. 9 pp. 8

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Just Published, by Henry Holt & Co., New York.Scudder’s Brief Guide to the Com-moner Butterflies.By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. xi --[- 206 pp.12mo. $1.25An introduction, for the young student, to

the names and something of the relationshipand livesofour commoner butterflies. Theauthor has selected fbr treatment the butter-flies, less than one hundred in number, whichwould be almost surely met with by an in-dustrious collector in a course of a year’s ortwo year’s work in our Northern States eastof the Great Plains, and in Canada. Whileall the apparatus necessary to identify thesebutterflies, in their earlier as well as perfectstage, is supplied, it is far from the author’spurpose to treat l’hem as if they were so manymere postage-stamps to be classified and ar-ranged in a cabinet. He has accordinglyadded to the descriptions of the different spe-cies, their most obvious stages, sonae of thecurious facts concerning their periodicity andtheir habits of life.

Scudder’s The Life of a Butterfly.A Chapter in Natural History forthe General Reader.

By SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. I86 pp. 6mo.i oOOo

In this book the author has tried to presentin untechnical language the story of the lifeof one of our most conspicuous Americanbutterflies. At the same time, by introduc-inginto the account of its anatomy, devel-opment, distribution, enemies, and seasonalchanges some comparisons with the more orless dissimilar structure and life of other but-terflies, and particulayly of our native forms,he has endeavored to give, in some fashionand in brief space, a general account of thelives of the whole tribe. By using a singlebutterfly as a special text, one may discourseat pleasure of many and in the limited fieldwhich our native butterflies cover, this meth-od has a certain advantage from its simplicityand directness.

The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada,With special reference to New England. By SAU.L H. SCUDDR.

Illustrated with 96 plates of Butterflies, Caterpillars, Chrysalids, etc. (of vehich 4i are

colored) which include about 2,ooo Figures besides Maps an8 Portraits. 958 Pages of Text.Vol. . Introduction; Nymphalidae.Vol. e. Remaining Families of Butterflies.

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