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dilated, and the third joint of the antennae is short, and not elongated as in the 

 other British species of the genus ; the first joint of the arista also is much shorter. 

 I have quite rocentlj recorded H. obscurelhi^, Fin., from the Forth District. — 

 A. K. J. Caiitku, \, West Holmes Gardens, Musselburgh : June ^rd, 1907. 



[This species was also taken by Dr. J. IT. Wood in Sloko Wood, Herefordshire, 

 on June 18tli, I'JOfJ. — G. H. Veuuall]. 



Correclion of Localily. — In mj paper on the genus Imina, published in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1906, I described a 

 species as Loxotrochis sepias from a specimen in the British Museum Collection, 

 stating ifs locality as Espiritu ISanto, New Hebrides ; I have since been informed 

 by Sir George ITampson that I misinterpreted the label, and that the real locality 

 is the province of Espiritu Santo in Brazil. — E. Metbick, Thornhanger, Marl- 

 borough : May 22iid, 1907. 



fu'uiciu. 



A Natural Histout of the British Lepidopteea : by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 

 Vol. V. 8\o, pp. siii, 558. London : Swan, Sonnenschein and Co. 1906. 



Following closely on the first volume of Mr. Tutt's " Natural History of the 

 British Buttci flies," noticed on p. 112 of the curi'ent volume of this Magazine, we 

 have to welcome another instalment of his great and comprehensive treatise on our 

 indigenous Lepidoplera. 



This volume, the fifth in order of the series, is devoted to the consideration of 

 those delicate and highly interesting insects known familiarly as " Plume Moths " — 

 Alucitides, as our author styles them — of which nineteen species, comprising the 

 " Agdistid " and " Platyptiliid " branches of the Plume Moths, and including, 

 roughly, two-thirds of the species known to occur in our Islands, are dealt with in 

 Mr. Tutt's usual thorough and exhaustive manner. It may indeed fairly be said 

 that the present volume, embodying as it does the outcome of continuous research 

 and accumulation of material from all sources during the last twenty years, fully 

 equals, if indeed it does not excel, any of its predecessors in original and scientific 

 treatment of its subject. 



A very comprehensive and detailed historical account, from the time of Linne 

 to the present day, of the two superfamilies into which the " Plumes " are divided 

 by the author — the Agdistldes, rei)resented in Britain only by the well-known 

 Adactylus bennetii, and the Alucitides, comprising all the rest of our species — is 

 followed by a general consideration of the biological characters of the grouj) as 

 a whole. Especial weight is give)i to the excellent work of Zeller and O. Hofmann 

 in this connection ; and the discussion of the phylogcny and the still somewhat 

 uncertain i-eiationship of the Plume Moths to the other great sections of the Order 

 Lepidoplera will be found very suggestive and interesting. We would call special 

 attention to the carefully drawn-up and elaborate table, facing p. 106, by Dr. Chap- 

 man and Mr. Bacot, of the characters of nearly every species occurring in our 

 Islands in its last larval instar. 



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