Abstract: IN this “Rural Manual” the authors give clear and concise accounts of the insects which, in North America, may be regarded as pests on vegetables grown in gardens. Each chapter is, as a rule, assigned to a particular species or group of vegetables, but “cutworms”(Noctuid caterpillars), blister-beetles, and flea-beetles are treated respectively in three special chapters, while another chapter is devoted to “unclassified pests.” Most of the insects described are distinctively American species, but some—such as the cabbage-fly (Phorbia brassicae)—are common in British and European gardens. It is interesting to notice that in several cases an American insect attacks a cultivated plant in a manner like that adopted by an allied insect in Europe with the same plant; for example, the caterpillars of Hydroecia (Papaipema) nitela and H. cataphracta bore potato-stems, as those of H. micacea and H. ochracea do in these countries, while the damage by the American potato flea-beetle (Epitrix cucumeris) to foliage is closely comparable with that of our Psylliodes affinis. Manual of Vegetable-garden Insects. By Cyrus Richard Crosby Mortimer Demarest Leonard. Pp. xv + 391. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1918.) Price 12s. 6d. net.