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Eupithecia assimilata, Dbd. Among the imagines the British species figured 

 are E. fuscantaria, Eupethecia plumbeolata, nanata, vulgata, dodoneata, 

 pulchcllata, subnotata, and abbreviata; Cidaria iniata ; Aleucis pictaria; 

 Cidaria russula, variety perfascata, Haw.; Emmelesia ajffinitata, Steph.; and 

 Oporabia autumnata. 



The preface to the volume concludes thus : — "In conclusion, I cannot resist 

 the pleasure of closing this list by a name which I cannot repeat too often, 

 that of my excellent and useful friend, H. Doubleday, of Epping, who seems 

 to have devoted to my work, and even to the enriching of my collection, 

 a more active zeal than many others display in their own interest." We 

 are sure there are very few, if any, British Entomologists, who will 

 not feel pleasure in reading this testimony of the first of European Lepi- 

 dopterists, to the worth of so good a naturalist and so excellent a man. 



The work, of which we have given this brief notice, is marvellously 

 cheap. The letter-press, of five hundred and fourteen pages large octavo, 

 and closely printed in small type, is only five shillings and sixpence. The 

 plates to the two volumes, twenty-three in number, including one on the 

 SiculidcB, which is published here by mistake, as it belongs to volume xi., 

 are only twelve shillings most accurately coloured. They have been supplied 

 to us by Messrs. "Williams and Norgate. 



P.S. — We are sorry to observe, since the above was written, that some, we 

 think, very ill-timed remarks have appeared in the "Intelligencer," on the 

 long-deferred appearance of M. GueneVs truly splendid work. "When we con- 

 sider the trouble which it costs us to form a collection of British Lepidoptera, 

 we may form some opinion of the immense labour which is required to ar- 

 range the Families, Genera, and Species, with all their Synonymes, of those 

 of the entire world. M. Guenee has been working for years, at great sacrifice 

 of time and health, at this truly Herculean task, and we can assure him that 

 the Entomologists of Great Britain fully appreciate the value of his labours, 

 and pay due homage to the fame he has so justly earned. — Ed. 



The Missel Thrush, (T. viscivorus.) — While en route to some distant 

 shooting-ground, the tediousness of the journey was enlivened by many an 

 ornithological anecdote. Among others, my companion, W. Faussett, Esq., 

 of Binbrook, related the following: — "The Lady Soapsuds, anglice washer- 

 woman, came in great perplexity to inform her mistress that three lace 

 collars were missing from the lines where they had been hung up to dry. 

 Various were the conjectures as to what had become of them, but all 

 inquiries for their recovery failed, until the gardener's notice was attracted 

 by something white upon the branch of a tree; this proved to be one of 

 the missing collars, fluttering from the side of a Missel Thrush's nest. 

 The other two were found imbedded in the nest when pulled to pieces." 

 I believe this to be not an uncommon circumstance; the blackbird is 



