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dealing with local natural history with which we have met, and the 

 price is quite incommensurate with the value and size. — H.J.T. 



A MoNoaRAPH OF THE Genus Teracolus.. By Emily Mary Bowdler 

 Sharp. 156 pp., 44 coloured plates (450 figs.), 4vo. £3 3s. Od. net. 

 Messrs. L. Reeve and Co. — The issue of this work was originally com- 

 menced in parts in 1898, and so far as it was carried out by the author 

 it is now published for the first time in one volume with title and 

 index. To those Avho make a special study of the Piendae this book, 

 with its 44 plates of carefully executed and coloured figures of almost 

 all the species with their local races and forms, should prove very use- 

 ful. All the chief synonymic references are given, with descriptions 

 of the male, female and local races, while particular attention is given 

 to the Seasonal Dimorphism which is such a feature in the economy 

 of many species of this genus. Long lists of localities are included 

 with many extracts from the published writings of all the best authori- 

 ties, such as Dr. Trimen, Dr. Butler, Col. Yerbury, Guy Marshall, 

 Hon. Walt. Rothschild, De Niceville, etc. The genus I'eracolnx {sensil 

 lata), according to Kirby, Handbook, vol. i., p. 192, 1896, forms " a 

 little group peculiar to Africa and South-western Asia as far as India, 

 where they represent the Paltearctic genus KuMo'e. It is very 

 numerous in species which, though differing very much in outward 

 appearance, present few. tangible characters by which they can be 

 satisfactorily separated into genera, and hence they have been united 

 into a single genus by Dr. Butler, in which he has been followed by 

 Mr. Trimen, who formerly treated Idmais as distinct." Seitz Macro- 

 Icp., Fn. Afric, vol. xiii., 1910, recognises only one genus as does 

 Miss Sharp. The price of the bound book is considerably less than 

 when the parts were issued. It might also be mentioned that Messrs. 

 Reeve are disposing of the remainders of such works as Barrett's 

 British Lepidoptera, Fowler's British Coleoptera, Wilson's Larva- of 

 British Lepidoptera, Lang's Butterfiies of Europe, etc., at much reduced 

 prices, even in monthly volumes if wished. It may be mentioned that 

 Barrett is the only modern author who deals with the British 

 Tortrices in anything like detail. — H.J.T. 



The South Eastern Naturalist, being the Transactions of the 

 South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies for 1914. 208 pp. and 1 

 plate. Price 3s. 6d. net. Prom H. Norman Gray, Hon. Assist. Sec, 

 334, Commercial Road, London, E. — This is the eighteenth annual 

 volume which has been issued. The present issue is divided into four 

 parts. The first deals with the activities of the Union during the year. 

 This includes a record of work done by affiliated societies and their 

 members, which we regret to see is lamentably imperfect, in that it 

 contains no items from one of the most virile of local societies, viz., 

 The South London Entomological and Nat. Hist. Society. This 

 society contains a large proportion of the most active and original 

 workers, in Entomology at any rate, and the records of their work 

 would go far to fill up the references in that section, which is thus 

 deficient in the recorded activities of the Union. The second part is a 

 daily record of events at the Congress, this year held at Bournemouth, 

 and is most interesting reading, particularly to those of us who took 

 part. This occupies nearly sixty pages, including accounts of the 

 meetings of Council and Delegates, of the Field Meetings, of the 

 Mayoral Reception, of the Discussion on the papers read, etc., and 

 concluding with a description of the Museum and Loan Exhibition. 



