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divisa. Qeometridae (?) ; Pseudarbessa decorata. It appears very evident 

 from the specimens, collected over eighteen months in exactly the same 

 place, that the Syntomidae, in being so numerous, have acted as the 

 types, toward which the other species have converged. The particular 

 interest of the exhibit consisted in the association being one of moths, 

 a butterfly being the exception, and not one of butterflies with perhaps 

 a single moth, which latter is so frequently the case in South America. 

 The butterfly most closely resembled Ayyrta mivilia, one of the 

 Syntu/nidae that is perhaps the most abundant of all the group. 



:e^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS- 



Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist. — Part II. — By J. 

 W. Tutt,F.E.S. Price63.net. 144 pp., interleaved. Elliot Stock, 62, 

 Paternoster-row, E.G. — Encouraged by the very gratifying reception of 

 Part I of this work, which appeared in April, 1901, the author pub- 

 lished a second part last October. Those who are familiar with Mr. 

 Tutt's works on entomology will hardly need the assurance that 

 Part II is no whit inferior in point of interest to Part I. Both parts 

 contain ample hints for field work, arranged under the headings of 

 the different months, and so far they resemble one another ; but 

 Part II embodies also a vast store of information on collateral 

 subjects, among which may be mentioned the various departments and 

 systems of larva-rearing, the procuring and treatment of lepidopterous 

 eggs, the best modes of keeping underground pupse, sugaring in all 

 its various forms, sallowing, beating, assembling, and light. We may, 

 without fear of exaggeration, say that this work constitutes a store- 

 house of solid information. The ardent collector, experienced or in- 

 experienced, will find herein matter for continual cogitation, and cer- 

 tainly should emerge from the study of it a better and a wiser 

 entomologist. The winter months are, naturally, difficult to fill up, 

 but even under the heading of November and December, when days 

 are short and drear and chill, we find most useful instructions as to the 

 method of discovering the eggs of Thecla w-albmn, Zephyr ns tjaereus, 

 and Ptilophura plumiyera. Moreover, we are encouraged to continue 

 our sugaring well on into November, because (as we learn) (Jalo- 

 cam pa exoleta is sometimes abundant then, and other species, 

 such as Hoporina cruceayo, are by no means over. ^lost use- 

 ful also in a work of this kind are the exact dates given for find- 

 ing various insects, as for instance, the first week of April for larva 

 of (Jleora lichniaria, April 20th for the imago of Xylomiyes conspi- 

 inllaria, and July 15th for Thymeliais actatun. Then on page 22 we 

 learn that " food used will keep some time without changing, if the 

 ends of the stem be clipped off, a fresh surface exposed, and the water 

 in the gallipots changed." Again, on page 97 will be found a most 

 interesting account of the habits of the very local Lithosia vutscerda in 

 its native haunts on the Norfolk Broads, and on page 65 are similar 

 notes about Acidalia dilutaria [holosericata) in its very restricted habitat 

 on Clifton Down. Few, indeed, are the species to which this work 

 does not contain some reference, and we may safely say that not only 

 is no entomological library complete without it, but that no one who 

 is at all interested in the insects of his native country ought to go 

 through another collecting season without becoming the happy 

 possessor of this inestimable vade-mecum. — G.H.R. 



