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or no attempt has yet been made to make collections, and it must neces- 

 sarily be many years before it can be asserted that our knowledge of the 

 faunistic resources of Central Asia is complete. In his classification, Mr. 

 Leech follows the order now almost universally recognized by \vriters in 

 England and on the continent as most natural. He erects, so far as the 

 writer has been able to observe, no new genera, and while giving us a 

 large number of new species, appears to have pursued a conservative 

 course in this regard, which is to be commended. To the student of 

 Asiatic lepidoptera, the work is simply indispensable, and will remain a 

 lasting monument of the energy and scientific accomplishments of its 

 learned and enthusiastic author. W. J. Holland. 



Science Gossip. New Series: Vol. I., No. r, March, 1894. London: 

 Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 



After the lapse of a tew months the old established and deservedly 

 popular magazine, " Hardwicke's Science Gossip," re-appears under the 

 above title, with a change of editor and publisher, but, we are glad to 

 find, with no serious change of plan or scope or style. The new editor, 

 Mr. John L Carrington, was for thirteen years editor of the London £//- 

 tomologist, and also connected for a long time with the Field newspaper 

 as a contributor to its Natural History Department ; he has associated 

 with him a long list of able assistants, and we may feel every confidence 

 that the new series of the magazine will be as useful and entertaining as 

 any of the preceding volumes. The first number now before us contains 

 many interesting papers, including two on entomological subjects : British 

 Dragon-flies and Roosting Butterflies, the latter with two pretty illustra- 

 trations. We can heartily commend this publication, and trust that many 

 of our readers will subscribe to it and receive a monthly store of delight. 



Myriapodes des Environs de Geneve par Alois Humbert. Geneve 

 et Bale : Georg & Cie, 1893. 



We have to thank M. Henri de Saussure, the editor and publisher of 

 this posthumous work, for this handsome addition to the library of our 

 Society. It is a quarto volume, well printed and illustrated with a 

 portrait of the late M. Humbert, and fourteen beautifully executed plates 

 of Myriapods and their structural details. To any one interested in the 

 study of these rather neglected creatures, this work must be perfectly in- 

 valuable. 



