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Aptera, Oitboptera, Neuroptera, Hyraenopteia, Coleopteia, Lepidoptera, 

 Thysanoptera, Diptera, and Rliynchota. The book is beautifully 

 printed and exquisitely illustrated, the contents seem happily chosen, 

 and the book reflects the greatest credit on everyone concerned. We 

 are not surprised that Mr. Lefroy is proud of his Hindoo artists — 

 descendants, no doubt, of highly-civilised races when our ancestors 

 were still clad in skins and seated on their haunches in a cave. Anyway, 

 they are well ahead of the best colour-printers that try to illustrate our 

 entomological work in Britain. We should be glad if Mr. Lefroy 

 would let the Publication Committee of the Entomological Society of 

 London know somethmg of cost, etc., for the plates in this work. 

 There are 786 pp., 84 full-size coloured plates and SJ-^O text-figures, 

 and the book is capitally indexed. It is a work entomologists should 

 make a point of seeing; they are not likely to carry it about with them. 



Mr. South has, with the aid of Mr. F. N. Pierce (who finds the 

 genitalia distinct), apparently run to earth the Noctuid captured at 

 St. Anne's-on-Sea, noted by Mr. South in 1889 {Knt., xxii., p. 271) 

 as " pale grey," and by ourselves {Brit. Nuet., i., p. 140) also as "pale 

 grey," and then under the name of inccrta as " greyish fuscous, with 

 a slight ochreous {i.e., yellowish) tinge." He finds that these agree 

 with one of the two original examples that were named (jiieneei by 

 Doubleday in 1864 (from Rhyl), and which is now in the British 

 Museum coll. {via the " Burney coll.") ; the other is in the possession 

 of Mr. E. R. Bankes, and these, we understand, are also tinged with 

 ochreous ; so also is a second example captured at St. Anne's-on-Sea in 

 1891, i.e., all the four old specimens are now tinged with ochreous. 

 It is remarkable that neither Doubleday, South, nor ourselves saw any 

 yellowish tint in (jueneei and incerta when the specimens were fresh ; 

 one suspects, therefore, that this slight ochreous tint is a sign of 

 maturation in a species belonging to a genus that tends a little to 

 grease. 



At two or three recent meetings of the South London Entomo- 

 logical Society we have been shown, perhaps a dozen, examples of this 

 insect of the pale grey tint we remember the 1889 (and ? 1891) 

 specimens to have had when quite fresh ; our description for the 

 I'arieties of British Noctiiae made two years later notes the change. 

 But Mr. South has named these pale examples ba.vteri. It would be 

 unfortunate if the specimens of ba.vteri were to change to <iueneei in 

 the course of a year or two in the cabinet drawers, but we are afraid 

 they will. We understand that most of this year's captures have been 

 put on the market at a high figure. There is a long range of sandhills 

 on the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales coast; no doubt this 

 species will be found to be widely distributed there. 



No. xvii. of the Memoiren de la Soc. Knt. Beltiii/iie has just been 

 issued, and contains two important papers on Coleoptera — Bevisioji des 

 rrionides — 8rd mem. Deraneistrines, by Professor A. Lameere, and 

 KataliKi der Stajihi/liniden-Gattnnnen, etc., by Dr. F. Eichelbaum. 

 The former paper deals with the genera DeraiiciHtrus, Serville, 

 Poecilnsunia, Serville, CalocoiiiKH, Serville, Pyrodes, Serville, and 

 Sobariis, Harold. The genus J>erancistn(s, Lameere uec Serville, has 

 already been shown to be composed of very divergent elements, and the 

 species have been spread among Prosteriiddes, Thoms., Ih'ra)icititn(s,Serv. 

 {sens, restr.), Salenoptera, Serv., HolonntuK, Thoms., Klateropsis, Chevr., 

 and Spfienostethus, Hald. All these have been well defined, and 



