94 KEVIEW. 



Mr. Morris farther remarks, that my plan is not a new one, (I never said 

 it was,) except as to the way of first moving the wings forward by means of 

 a piece of wetted paper. This is no part of my plan; my words are, "move 

 up the fore wing to the required height, and having a little slip of paper 

 on the moistened tip of the middle finger of the left hand, hold the wing 

 with it by the apex, in this position; then, etc." The pressing the wing 

 gently down with pin D, is the only part of my plan for which I claim the 

 merit of novelty, and very possibly I may err in asserting even thus much. 

 Whether any comparison can justly be instituted between my method and 

 the slovenly one of sticking a pin through the wings, I must leave to my 

 readers. Lastly, Mr. Morris says I do not mention the method of setting 

 with cotton thread, adding, "the effect (of this method) is better, and the 

 process more quickly performed." I emphatically deny both these assertions. 

 With regard to the effect, leaving the vexed question of curved or flat wings 

 untouched, the system recommended by Mr. Morris utterly destroys the beauty 

 of many insects, as the clear wings, L. rubricollis, T. W-album, and many 

 other delicate species; the marks made by the threads being quite perceptible. 

 With regard to speed, I will readily undertake to set twelve JVoctuce according 

 to my method, in as short a time as can be done by any other. When I 

 say this, of course I mean that both parties' insects are to be equally well 

 set; not in that hasty careless way which necessitates the re-setting of five- 

 sixths of the insects you obtain from your correspondents. — J. G-beene, 32, 

 Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin. 



C. dispar. — I must again request Mr. King to explain about C. dispar. His 

 so-called explanation in "The Naturalist" for March, only makes confusion 

 worse confounded. Mr. King puts himself into a worse position than ever, and 

 into the bargain proves that Mr. E. Newman made a blunder in 1857, and a 

 gentleman in Horning Fen told an astounding falsehood in 1856. In "The 

 Naturalist" for January, Mr. K. advertises C. dispar for sale, together with a 

 lot of other insects, and distinctly states that they were all taken during the 

 past season in the fens, etc. In "The Naturalist" for March, he says the C. 

 dispar were not taken last year at all, but many years ago, and on Whittlesea 

 Mere, and not by himself, but by an old collector now dead. If Mr. K. can 

 unravel this tangled skein, I hope he will. — H. Habpue Ceewe, Stowmarket, 

 March 6th., 1858. 



Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Lipidopteres. Tome X. Uranides et Phal- 

 dnites. Par M. A. Guenee. 



The second volume of this important work is now before us, and we are 

 enabled to give our readers a brief abstract of the changes which it proposes 

 in our list of British Geometree. 



The volume begins with the termination of the large family ACLDALIDiE, 

 the only remaining British species of which we find our old friend the "Blood- 

 vein," which is now placed in the genus Timandea, Dup., that of Beadyepetes, 



