164 THE entomologist's record. 



of Xylocampa litlioriza, Biston hirtaria, Teplirosia crepuscidaria, Lobophora 

 lohulata, — Frank Bouskell, Hon. Sec. 



:OTICES AND REVIEWS. 



Victorian Butterflies, and How to Collect them. Published 

 by H. Hearne & Co, 208-210, Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. 

 Part I, price 4s. Many of our readers will be pleased to bear of this 

 work, brought out by Mr. E. Anderson, a former Secretary of the City 

 of London Entomological Society, in conjunction with Mr. F. P. Spry, 

 a member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. The first part to 

 hand is a good deal on the lines of Newman's BriU'sh Butterflies, and 

 contains a general Introduction, with some concise notes on the oval, 

 larval and pupal conditions ; on pinning, killing, and setting insects ; 

 a diagrammatic repi'eseutation of a butterfly, with the names of the 

 nervures, the various i);irts of the wing, and body, &c. The second 

 j)art is, to a gTcat exten^, descriptive, but the gi-eat value of the book 

 consists in the well-executed wood-cuts scattered throughout. There 

 is one of the male and another of the female of almost every species 

 dealt with, whilst many have a figure of the larva and pupa in addition, 

 and these are so well done that there can be but little trouble for the 

 student to name his caj)tures from them. The figures of Pieris teutonia 

 give us a characteristic white Pt'eris with a black border on the outer 

 margin of all four "wings, the border containing a ro^v of marginal 

 dots as in Colias hjale and C. edusa J , a fact of the highest phylogenetic 

 sigTiificance, whilst those of Tachyris ega show the way in which 

 Pierinai with spotted borders are modified into the black-tijijied forms as 

 in SyncMoe daplidice, &c. Mr. Anderson mentions Danans (Danais ?) 

 petdia as having been recorded from England (p. 42), an evident 

 error; whilst he correctly records D. erippus as having been taken 

 here. He maintains Pyrameis liershaioi as being j)robably identical 

 with P. cardui, and A\a-ites of it : — " The chief point of difference is 

 stated to be the blue centres of three spots on the posterior wangs of 

 the Australian insect — a difference which Sir F. McCoy states to be 

 quite invariable. As jJointed out by Mr. Oliff, the variety with blue 

 spots has been taken in the New Forest, England, by Mr. Jenner Weir, 

 and also by himself in Holland. Moreover, during one of the pojjular 

 excursions of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria to Mount Dan- 

 denong, one of the authors captured a specimen with black spots, 

 similar to the European form, so as both forms are found in both 

 localities, it would appear that there is only one species " (j^p. 73-74). 

 There are many other jjaragTaphs to be found of general interest. We 

 must congratulate the authors on their Avork, and would only ask that, 

 where possible, fuller descriptions of the egg might be added with 

 advantange, and some reference to the apjjearance of the larvae in 

 their various skins. The printing and general get-up of the book 

 appears to be most satisfactory. The first part contains the Pajrdiomdce 

 (Pajnlionince and Pierince) ; and the Nymphalidce (Danaince, Satyrince and 

 Nymphalince). Any English lepidopterists avIio would like to have 

 the work, can obtain it through Mr. J. A. Clark, The Broadway, London 

 Fields, N.E. 



