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PRACTICAL HINTS FOR THE FIELD LEPIDOPTERIST. By J. W. 

 Tutt, F.E.S. Part iii. Price 6s. net (interleaved). (London, Elliot 

 Stock ; Berlin : R. Friedlander and Sohn.) 



This is presumably the concluding part of an exceedingly useful 

 publication by an author whose energy and zeal for his subject seem 

 almost inexhaustible. The major portion of the work, which runs 

 to 1 66 pages without the blank interleaves (and which therefore 

 should surely have been issued in a cloth cover !), is devoted to 

 additional hints arranged month by month, with separate paragraphs 

 for the main groups of butterflies and moths. The enormous 

 number of suggestions, so valuable in themselves, are rendered in 

 this part infinitely more useful and accessible by the addition of an 

 index, which, by the way, covers also the two previous portions. A 

 special feature, however, of the present instalment is the series 

 of chapters of a more general nature, devoted to subjects which are 

 of the deepest interest to the collector, and about which little of any 

 practical use has as yet been written. After an introductory chapter 

 entitled " Collectors, Collecting, Collections," we are treated to a 

 capital account of the Eggs and Egg-laying habits of these popular 

 insects, in which the most useful advice is given as to how to obtain 

 eggs in confinement, how to manipulate and preserve them through 

 the winter, how to send them through the post, and numerous other 

 points. Then follows a still more valuable chapter on the preser- 

 vation, photographing, and description of the eggs, also a chapter on 

 larvae and one on pupas, in both of which we find information often 

 required by the student but seldom given in the multitude of works 

 on Lepidoptera which have appeared in recent years. Like other 

 contributions to entomological science by Mr. Tutt, the present work 

 is characterised by its thoroughness, accuracy, and extreme lucidity. 

 In short, we can safely say that we have seldom seen so much in- 

 formation of real practical use got together into such a small space, 

 and this fact, coupled with the happy idea of interleaving the work, 

 should inspire and encourage the novice and experienced collector 

 alike to the making of original observations. Every entomologist 

 should possess these " Hints," and although the price at first sight 

 would seem somewhat large, yet we can assure the lover of moth or 

 butterfly that he will get full value for his money. Our readers' 

 attention should also be directed to the beautiful photographic 

 plates (of which there are seven) accompanying the text of the 

 introductory chapters. P. H. G. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH HIERACIA. By W. R. Linton, 

 Vicar of Shirley, Derby. London: West, Newman and Co., 1905. 



Mr. Linton has been well known for several years as one of the 

 few that venture on the critical study of the genus Hieracium ; and 

 he has turned his knowledge, wide and precise gained in their 

 habitats and from herbaria and books, to the help of British 



