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In conclusion, we will only express our opinion, that Mr. Dawson has 

 produced a very original and useful Monograph, and we hope that many 

 other entomologists may be incited to follow his example, in still further 

 and more rigidly scrutinizing either this or some other branch of the 

 science. Mr. Dawson has shown us how much may be done with the 

 Geodephaga, other sections would possibly prove not less fruitful in in- 

 teresting and useful discoveries. 



The Entomologist's Companion. By H. T. Stainton. Second Edition. 

 Pp. 156. London : John Van Voorst. 1854. Price 3s. 6d. 



The title of this work, which we are glad to see has reached a second 

 edition, might, perhaps, mislead those expecting to find it an introduction to 

 entomology, in the general acceptation of the word ; whereas it treats of a 

 very small, though exceedingly imteresting portion of insects, the 

 Microlepidoptera, particularly including the Tineina. This edition pre- 

 sents several new features, a summary of which we shall present to our 

 readers. Besides copious instructions of the how, and when, and where to 

 catch the micros, hints about rearing their larva, and a calendar of their 

 appearing in the several conditions of imago, pupa, and larva, which were 

 contained in the edition of 1852, we have as follows — Firstly, some fourteen 

 pages devoted to the entomological localities in the neighbourhood of 

 London, with the means of getting to them, and what to be found in them, 

 fully detailed. To the London entomologist this will, we think, prove a 

 welcome addition. Secondly, we have an account of ten days at Kilmur, 

 with a trip to the Island of Arran. If our author would visit the north 

 Islands of Arran, situated off the west coast of Donegal, in Ireland, 

 we can, we think, promise him a harvest of his favourites not yet 

 touched, without much of the inconvenient moisture he met with in Scot- 

 land; and we would be greatly disappointed in the resources of our 

 country, if he did not find in it some insects whose names have not 

 appeared in the pages of the " Entomologist's Companion." And, lastly, 

 we have the Journal of a Microlepidopterist for the year 1853, 

 which may fairly stand as a model of such things. In conclusion, we 

 heartily recommend this little work to all our readers, but to none so much 

 as to our Irish naturalists. Many discoveries, no doubt, will yet reward 

 the diligent observer in England and Scotland ; but nowhere, in our opi- 

 nion, is there so much of the terra incognita as in Ireland. This volume 

 should be found in every collector's possession ; as a handbook they will 



