260 [November, 



Macrocetitrua marginator , Nees. — I liad the pleasure ot" receiving from Mr. W. 

 A. Kollasoii of Truro, Macrocentrus marginator on April 30th last, wliicli he hud 

 bred lliat day from some currant stems in which iicsia tipuliformis larva? wore 

 feeding. This parasite has been bred from different species of Sesia ; Marshall, 

 however, does not mention it having been bred in England from 6\ tipuliformis, but 

 tiiat it had been on the cuntinent. — Gr. C. liiGNELL, Saltash : October Vilh, 1907. 



Rare Urthuptera near Dover. — I am pleased to be able to record the cajjture 

 of numbers of Aptertfgida a/bipennis, Meg., and also of Decticus verrucivoru.s, Linn., 

 at Stonchall Farm, near Lydden, near Dover. — Malcolm liuiiu, Sibertswold, near 

 Dover : September thth, 1907. 



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" BaXTlSUFLIES OF lloNGKONG AND SO0TU-ICaST ChINA :" by J. C IvERSHAW, 



F.Z.S., F.E.S. Parts I-VI. Ito, pp. 181, plates I-XLV and la-V«. Kelly and 

 Walsh, Limited ; Hongkong, Shanghai, Singajjore and Yo'vohama. London ; K. H. 

 Porter. 



Our knowledge of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Chinese Empire, almo.^t a 

 negligcable quantity a few years ago, may now be said to compare favourably witii 

 that of most parts of the world of equal extent. This increase is tlue, in the first 

 place, to the late Mr. J. H. Leech's great and sumptuous work, " Butterflies from 

 China, Japan and Corea ;" and the work now under review forms another substantial 

 contribution. Mr. Kershaw may be congratulated on tiie success witli which he has 

 dealt with the butterfly-fauna of a most interesting district, which if it be not as 

 rich as that of some other tropical regions (mainly through its being the seat of a 

 dense and industrious population, before whom nearly every vestige of forest vege- 

 tation has long ago disappeared), yet includes many fine and showy species as well 

 as a few peculiar forms of these insects. 14.3 species of butterflies are recorded as 

 having been met with at Hongkong and Macao, and on the adjoining mainland of 

 South-liast China, as against about 120 observed by the writer of the present notice 

 during part of two years (1892 and 1893) on the island of Hongkong alone. The 

 additional species include the migratory American Anosia {Danai.s) a rchipp us, v/hich 

 has at last followed its food-plant across the whole width of the North Pacific Ocean. 

 No new species are described, nor indeed are any detailed descriptions of tiie perfect 

 insects given ; but all except a very few are figured by the three-colour process from 

 the author's drawings. While ;ill the plates may be pronounced good, some of them, 

 as Plate VIII, including most of the Lycxnidai, and Plates IX and X, containing the 

 Pieridse and some of the I'apiiios, attain a high degree of merit. The supplemen- 

 tary plates of the larvae and pupa} are also excellent examples of colour-printing as 

 executed in Japan, though a few of the figures are somewhat lacking in detail. The 



