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The life-history of each species dealt with is considered at full length from all 

 available sources, and incidentally a large amount of valuable information is given 

 respecting allied forms to ours, not found in Britain. Among so much that is 

 interesting, we would select for particular notice the very detailed account in all its 

 stages of our curious salt-marsh frequenting species Adactylus lennetii ; and, 

 perhaps most remarkable of all. Dr. Chajiman's most valuable researclies into the 

 life-history of Buckhria (TrichopliiuxJ pnludum, first given in Trans. Ent. See , 

 London, 190G, pp. 133 — 153, the excellent coloured plalc illustrating this memoir 

 being reproduced here. The assistance of Mr. Bacot, Dr. Chapman, Mr. Eustace 

 Bankes, Mr. A. Sieh, and other well-known Entomologists, especially the two first- 

 named, who have collaborated with Mr. Tutt in working out this difTicult group of 

 moths, I'cceives full and grateful recognition. 



The two preliminary chapters of the volume (pp. 1 — 07), are devoted to the 

 consideration of the important questions of" Hybridisation " and '■ Mongrelisation " 

 for the results of the interbreeding of different forms of the same species) in the 

 Lepidoptera. An immense mass of n)ost valuable and interesting material, amount- 

 ing to an exhaustive summary of all that has been written on these subjects, is 

 contained in these chapters, and is brought " up to date " by an " Addendum " 

 (pp. 536 — 543), a rr.snmd of the most recently published memoirs on the subject of 

 liybridisation. 



We understand that a large amount of material dealing with the Alucitid 

 branch of the " Plume " phylum has been brought together in readiness for a 

 forthcoming volume of the work ; and when this appears, Lepidopterists will be in 

 possession of a standard book of reference on these most interesting moths, equal in 

 scicnlifie value to any work of the kind that has yet been accomplished by any 

 student of the Order. 



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Frederic Moore, D.Sc., A.L.S., died at his residence, 17, IVfaple Eoad, Penge, 

 after a short illness, on May 10th, at the ripe age of 77 years, and was buried on 

 the loth at Elmer's End Cemetery; the Entomological Society of London, of 

 which he had been a Fellow for more than half-a-century (he having been elected 

 as long ago as 1853), being represented at his funeral by the President, Mr. C O. 

 Waterhousc, Col. Swinhoc, Mr. W. L. Distant, and other well-known Entomologists. 

 Dr. Moore may be regarded as the father of Indian Lepidopterisf.s ; his knowledge 

 of the butterflies and moths of that vast region was unequalled, and his industry 

 and devotion to the science thai he loved was untiring, and remained unabated to 

 the very end of his long life. Among his numerous entomological memoirs, chiefly 

 on Indian and Eastern Lepidoplera, three great works stand pre-eminent ; the 

 earliest being " A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the 

 Uon. East India Company " (in conjunction with the late Dr. Thomas Horsfield, 

 1857-59), which may be said to constitute the foundation of our knowledge of the 

 subject; "Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects (ITeterocera) in the 

 Collection of the late W. S. Atkinson " (1879-88), and the very valuable " Lepi- 

 doptei'a of Ceylon (1881 — 87). His last great undertaking, the " Lepidoptera 



