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The alteration in title from " europaischen " to " palaearctischen " Faunenge- 

 bietes is verj largely the cause of the great increase in the totals of the present 

 edition. The actual number of species added to the limited European Catalogue 

 could only be ascertained after much calculation, but a considerable proportion of 

 the additions appear to be extra-European species. 



A Review of this work cannot be undertaken without long and cai'eful study, 

 but from a merely cursory examination the general impression is that the scheme of 

 classification adopted is a great improvement on that of the second edition. Many 

 references included in that edition are now omitted, e. g., " Stt., I. B.," is frequently 

 eliminated, probably from considerations of space, but these omissions will prevent 

 us from accepting the new edition as a substitute for the second, which for this 

 reason cannot be regarded as obsolete. One very tiresome omission, common to 

 both editions, is the failure to cite the authority for sinking a name as a synonym — 

 such references are certainly of equal importance with the citation of the synonyms 

 themselves. The adoption of index numbers would have rendered it possible to 

 give such information without largely increasing the letter-press, and would liave 

 saved younger students much unnecessary research, while all would have been glad 

 to have found such references in the new edition. The date 1818 adopted for 

 Hiibner's Verzeichniss in Part II is incorrect, no signature containing llicros could 

 have appeared before 1822, probably not until 1826. The printing does not stand 

 out so clearly and so black as in the second edition, owing to the more glossy surface 

 of the paper, and the Indexes will be very trying to those who have not good sight ; 

 it is to be regretted that they are printed in smaller type than in the second edition. 



All students of the Lepidoptera are greatly indebted to the late Dr. Staudinger 

 and to Dr. Rebel for the immense amount of work represented by this Catalog* 

 which, whatever faults it may be found to possess, cannot fail to be of the greatest 

 assistance in systematic and other work, and it will be regretted by all that Dr. 

 Staudinger did not live to receive the congratulations which we are now only able 

 to offer to his collaborator. 



Particular attention should be directed to the Addenda and Corrigenda {II, 

 pp. 249 — 266), for even now it is not known to every one that there were very im- 

 portant corrections and additions on pp. 422 — 426 of the second edition. 



It is to be hoped that all new species and genera will be numbered in accord- 

 ance with the new Catalog, to enable their location with facility. — John Haetley 

 DURRANT : June Sth, 1901. 



©bituarn. 



Alexandre Condant. — As briefly announced on the cover of our last No., M. 

 Constant died suddenly on May 13th at his residence, Villa Niobe, Golfe Juan, 

 near Cannes in France. He was 72 years old. He came of a family hailing 

 from the Burgundy District of France, and for many years was in business in the 

 important town of Autun (Saone et Loire) as a banker, as was, we think, also his 

 father before him. Autun is not in a wine growing district, but some miles away he 

 possessed an extensive vineyard, where we first made his acquaintance in the year 

 1874, working after the fashion of an ordinary labourer, in blouse and sabots. 

 A few days later we proceeded to Autun, and the richly wooded and well watered 



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