This book offers the first synthesis of much scattered information on spittlebugs; not just the first in Canada, or in North America, but apparently the first such compendium in the world. The considerable taxonomic emendations, range maps, and corrected biological information should be of interest to specialists familiar with spittlebugs. It is also hoped that the style of presentation, the numerous illustrations, and the brevity of description together with the short and simple identification keys will attract the amateur, and encourage more people to take up the fascinating study of entomology.