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Pagenstechev contributes a working-out of the (alluhdiclae, to 

 Wytsman's G<:nrra luifcctonoii the editor himself contributes T.eptocir- 

 rinac, Mr. Rippon a section of the I'ainUoninaf, and Pagenstecher the 

 Lihi/tlicidac. Of works deahng with special faunrP, wider or narrower, 

 only some of the principal can be mentioned. The first volume of a 

 large work on Belgian lepidoptera by M. Lambillion is favourably 

 noticed in the hjit. Fwcord, p. 224. An up-to-date local list of 100 

 pages for Berlin has been published by Bartel and Her/ ; Petersen 

 gives us a fauna of 217 pages for Esthonia ; Bachmetjew, one for 

 Bulgaria in the Russian Hurar. and Kroulikowsky, one for the Govern- 

 ment of Jaroslaw in the same journal ; Naufock's " Fauna of Lower 

 Austria" occupies the greater part of the annual volume of the 

 Vienna Ent. Ycrcin ; Tessmann discusses the lepidoptera of Staven- 

 hagen in the Arch. Vcr. Fr. Nat. Meckl. ; Strand continues his Nor- 

 Avegian contributions in the Xyt. Mcu/. Nat. ; Hagen has worked out 

 the Mentawai lepidoptera in Maas' Bel liehensiciinUfien Wildcn, and in 

 the Abh. Senck. Nat. Gca. ; and Hampson, the yoetuUaa of South 

 Africa in the Ann. 8. Afrc. Mus. Petersen's Lepidopteren-Fauna von 

 FstUnuJ is of more than faunistic interest, on account of his many 

 valuable notes on differentiation of allied species by the $ anal 

 clasps, etc. The new edition of Wallace's classic Island JAfc will also 

 have to be consulted by lepidopterists for up-to-date information on 

 geographical distribution ; and its author's application to Mr. Tutt 

 for assistance has further resulted in the pubHcation by the latter of a 

 useful list of species and forms thus far only recorded as British, 

 Avhich has appeared in the pages of the FntomoloriiHt's Fwcord. 



New species from almost all parts of the world are still being 

 described by Warren, Walsingham and Durrant, Meyrick, Rebel, 

 Schaus, Lower, and many others, but details will, of course, be sought 

 from the usual sources of reference. 



I notice also that several books and pamphlets have been published 

 on various branches of economic entomology, sericulture, etc., but 

 they have not interested me personally, and I am unable to supply 

 particulars. 



Of our three principal entomological magazines, the F atom oloi fist's 

 Montldji maintains its high position, but the volume for 1902 does not 

 contain very much which will be of interest to the average lepidop- 

 terist. Doubtless, however, Mr. C. W. Dale's series of historical 

 articles on some of our rarer British Rhopalocera — " Lycaena aria " 

 {Noiniades sonianiiis), Li/racna avion, Papilio niarhaon, Aporia crataer/t, 

 etc. — will form an exception, whilst the more scientific disposed will 

 turn with pleasure to Dr. Chapman's paper on ('vinoptenj.v familiella, 

 and the few who are engaged in attempting to reduce our chaotic 

 nomenclature to order will have to make themselves acquainted with 

 Walsingham and Durrant's closely-reasoned i-epudiation of Billberg's 

 Fniniicratio as of any authority on the subject. In the Kntnuiidoniat^ 

 /^^Tojv/ one finds a good deal of valuable faunistic work, both British and 

 foreign ; Mr. Tutt's contributions on peculiarly J'ritish forms and on 

 " Migration " have been noticed above ; and life-histories and variation 

 also come in for a good share of attention. The Knto)t\oloiiist contains 

 a variety of readable material, including " The Classification of 

 Gvacilaria and allied genera," by Dr. T. A. Chapman, "Life-History 

 of Vanessa antiopa,'" by F. W. Frohawk, and other articles too 

 numerous to mention. 



