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on November 1st. Price Is. net. It contains four pages of the pre- 

 liminary general chapters, including " General Observations on But- 

 terflies," and part of a chapter on " Eggiaying of Butterflies." These 

 general chapters are evidently calculated to occupy 80 pages (4 pages 

 in each of 20 parts), the systematic work beginning at p. 81. Twenty- 

 four pages of this systematic work follows, mcluding a full account of 

 the superfamily Urbicolides [Flatperiules), the family Urbicolidae, and the 

 subfamily and tribe Thymelicinae and Tlu/iiieliciJi. This is followed 

 by an account of the genus Adopaea, a full account of Adopaea lineola, 

 under the titles of "Synonymy," "Original description," "Imago," 

 "Sexual dimorphism," " Gynandromorphism," "Variation," "Egg- 

 laying," "Ovum," " Comparison of eggs of A. lineola and T. artecm," 

 "Habits of larva," "Ontogeny of larva," "Larva," " Foodplants," 

 " Puparium," "Pupa," "Time of appearance," " Habits of imago," 

 "Habitat," "British localities," and "Distribution." Of these 

 details there are, included in the variation of the species, descriptions 

 of the various races and forms that have either come under the 

 author's observation or been culled from the various authorities, 

 whilst the study of the egg, quite unique in its character and upsetting 

 all previous notions of butterfly eggs, is remarkable as well as 

 interesting. As before the author has been able to retain the aid of 

 Dr. Chapman, Mr. Bacot, Mr. Sich, and others for the biological 

 sections, Mr. Prout for the synonymy, Mr. S. Edwards for the litera- 

 ture, whilst Mr. Smallman has most industriously collected some 

 hundreds of lists from lepidopterists in various parts of the United 

 Kingdom, which give a good idea of the actual localities, and Messrs. 

 Gillmer and Rowland-Brown have given considerable help in the distri- 

 bution. We understand Part II Avill be published with the November 

 part of this magazine, and will be continued monthly. The Rev. G. H. 

 Raynor has kindly undertaken the final indexing. It is printed in the 

 same style and is intended to match exactly the volumes of The Xatural 

 Hifitart/ of tlie British Lepidoptera, the fifth of which is being pushed 

 forward as fast as the exigencies of printing will allow. Readers of The 

 Ent. Record can obtain Part I or II post free by sending Is. Id. in stamps 

 to Mr. J. Herbert Tutt, 119, Westcombe Hill, S.E. Parts I and II 

 together will give a capital idea of the scope of the work. 



The Proceedings of the Cleveland Xatiiralists' Field Clid), vol. ii., 

 pt. 1 [T. Woolston, Publisher, etc., Middlesborough] contains an 

 interesting paper by Mr. T. A. Lofthouse, " Cleveland Lepidoptera in 

 1903 and 1904," and another by Mr. Lawson Thompson, F.E.S., 

 " Report on the Coleoptera observed in Cleveland." 



We regret to announce the death of Mr. Ambrose Quail, at 

 Tamworth, New South Wales, on February 11th last, at the age of 

 33 years, which has only just come to our knowledge. Commencing 

 his entomological career as an active member of the City of London 

 Entom. Society, he was obliged, on account of his health, to go to 

 New Zealand, where he resided for some years, returning to Queens- 

 land after a short visit to England in the autumn of 1903, and going 

 on thence to New South Wales, where he had only resided some six 

 months at the time of his decease. 



Mr. Carl Frings has renamed {Sodetas Entonwloyica) Latiiocampa 

 quercKs ab. oiiraceo-fasciata, Cockerell, calling it ab. paradoxa. The 

 form is described in some detail Xat. IJid. Brit. Lep., vol. iii. 



