Consists of the first portion of the book, apparently excised(?).

Bound volume contains: 1. Guide to the study of insects (excerpt) -- 2. Descriptive catalogue of the North American insects belonging to the Linnaean genus Sphinx -- 3. Entomology -- 4. On the colouring matter of some aphides -- 5. On the Nephila plumipes: or silk spider of South Carolina. -- 6. Descriptions of several new species of Cynips, and a new species of Diastrophus 7. Contributions to the natural history of the Cynipidae of the United States and their galls -- 8. Additions and corrections to the paper entitled: "On the Cynipidae of the North American oaks and their galls." -- 9. The white coffee-leaf miner (Cemiostoms coffeellum Stainton) -- 10. The butterflies of North America. by W. H. Edwards. Second series -- 11. On the Cynipidæ of the United States and their galls -- 12. The songs of the grasshoppers -- 13. Anisopteryx vernata distinguished from A. pometaria.