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On the Riccl'e of the Edinburgh District. By William 

 Evans, F.R.S.E. T. a?id F. E. B. S., xxiii. pp. 285-287, t. 3. 



Notes on New Diseases on Picea pungens (on buds, due to 

 an Ascomycete) and on Abies pectinata (on leaves, due to an 

 Ascomycete). By Dr. A. W. Borthwick. T. and P. E. B. S., 

 xxiii. pp. 232-233. 



Warty Disease of the Potato (^CJirysophlyctis endobioticd). 

 By Dr. A. W. Borthwick. Notes froj?i the Royal Botanic Garden^ 

 Edifiburgh, pp. 11 5-1 19, t. 23. — The destructive "Black-Scab," 

 first observed within the British Islands a few years ago in Cheshire, 

 is now recorded from Scotland. 



Pleurotus decorus, from Drumnadrochit (96), exhibited. 

 T. and P. E. B. 6"., xxiii. p. 235. 



BOOK notices. 



A Natural History of the British Alucitides. Vol. i. 

 By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. London : Elliot Stock, 1906. Price 

 £1 net. 



This is the first of two ponderous volumes which are to treat of 

 the so-called " Plume Moths," and although bearing a separate title 

 they really form vols. v. and vi. of the author's great work on the 

 British Lepidoptera. Although issued at short intervals it is obvious 

 that the materials for these exhaustive volumes must have been 

 accumulating for a long period, and we read in the preface that 

 the notes for the present one were commenced twenty years ago. 

 It would thus be difficult to imagine any person better prepared or 

 more competent to produce a thoroughly good account of these 

 interesting, if neglected, insects than the present author. If Mr. 

 Tutt be spared to complete his second volume in the same style, 

 and we sincerely hope that he will, the British entomologist will 

 possess the best account, by a long way, of the " Plume Moths " 

 that has ever been produced. 



As in previous volumes, we are treated to a first part containing 

 a portion of a general history of Lepidoptera, and in vol. v. there 

 are two chapters in part i., the first dealing with hybridisation, and 

 the second with "mongrelisation." 



These chapters are of much interest, and should be read by all 

 students of variation and heredity. 



The second and systematic part of the book is treated in the 

 same masterly fashion as in the previous volumes, and in conse- 

 quence of the increased difficulty met with in studying these tiny 

 moths the accounts (one might well call them monographs) given of 



