224 THE entomologist's record. 



the Journal of the New York Kntoiiiohxjical Society, vol. x., no. 2, Juiie^ 

 1902. Mr. Kearfott's acquaintance with the European as well as the 

 American literature of his subject, fiujjurs well for the stability of his 

 "work. 



Volume iii of British Lepidoptera is at last completed. It contains 

 much more material than either of its predecessors — almost double the 

 amount of detail printed in small type. The index is in the printer's 

 hands, and the binding has to be done. We have no doubt that most 

 lepidopterists will prefer it to those already published, for it deals 

 entirely with Macro-lepidoptera. 



The new edition (3rd) of Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace's Island Life 

 has just been issued. The veteran naturalist is to be congratulated 

 on the excellent way in which he has brought the work up to date, 

 and dealt with the mass of details for ever accumulating on the 

 subject he has treated in so luminous a manner. Chapter xvi, on 

 " The British Isles," has been largely recast, and his method of 

 obtaining the help of well-known specialists in each branch of the 

 fauna and flora treated, has worked remarkably well. The lepidoptera, 

 coleoptera, and trichoptera peculiar to Britain, have been treated by 

 Mr. Tutt, Canon Fowler, and Mr. McLachlan respectively. 



Ji^E VIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



HiSTOIRE NaTURELLE ET MfEURS DE TOUS LES PaPILLONS DE 



Bel«ique, by L. J. L. Lambillion. [Published at Namur, Imprimerie 

 Douxfils, vol. i., 829 + cxxiv pages. Price 6 francs, 1902]. — We 

 receive from the continent numbers of works on lepidoptera. As a 

 rule they exhibit an excellence of illustration that cannot be 

 approached m this country at the price, whilst the letterpress, both 

 general and relating to the species, is utterly worthless. Here we have 

 a book, based on the lines of the better British and American models, 

 in which the general information is good and up-to-date, whilst the 

 description of each species is worked out under various headings — 

 Insecte parfait, ffiuf. Chenille, Chrysalide, Plantes nourricieres, Epoque 

 d'eclosion. Localities, Distribution geographique, etc. Such a book 

 must leave its mark on its successors, and one may hope that a more 

 scientific style of letterpress will become general in the near 

 future. Considering the way in which British lepidopterists have, 

 during recent years, extended their studies to the continental rhopalo- 

 cerous fauna, and the endless stream of inquiries from would-be 

 travellers abroad to which one is subjected, it is remarkable that not 

 a single British lepidopterist figures among the list of subscribers. 

 Possibly the fact of the publication of the work was insufficiently 

 advertised, at any rate, we strongly advise our readers, who are in any 

 wav interested in European Ehopalocera, to invest 5s. in a book that 

 will give them much interesting information about the whole of the 

 species of butterflies belonging to the Belgian fauna, much food for 

 reflection, andwillenablethem,perhaps, to explain why two countries like 

 Belgium and Britain in the same latitude, and separated only by a few 

 miles of water, should have such a different Rhopalocerous fauna, that 

 of Belgium almost doubling that of tbe British Islands. We heartily 

 congratulate the author on the completion of vol. i, and trust that the 

 support he obtains will be such as to urge him to continue the succeed- 

 ing volumes without delay. 



