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47/6 each, and Jhr/uout Jiarpaiiula 85/-, H2/G, 32/0 for 3, Avith ('crura 

 biruspis at 30/-, 27/G, 27/6 for 3. Leiicanla r itdlina ])vodnGed 22/- and 

 26/- each, and L. alhijiuiirta 30/- and 28/- per pair, whilst Nonatiria 

 cnnrolor came down to ,18/- for 4, and Xi/loiiiij/i'S cample ill arts pro- 

 duced about 8/- each. Laphi/i/Ha cvitjua produced £1 apiece, Hijdrilla 

 jniliistris £1, whilst a pair of Aurotln suhrosca went for £4, and Orr/mdia 

 cn/t/iroccphala 12/- each. Luperina barrcttii produced about 28/- per 

 pair ; £2 lus. for a single Lhicullia fpiaji/ialii, and £4 15s. for an 

 Opliunlcs huiaru. These are the chief records of the day's sale, which 

 was in every way a most satisfactory one. We need not add that 

 almost every insect was specially labelled. The rest of the collection 

 is to be disposed of on the 20th inst. 



g^EYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



British and European Butterflies and Moths (macro-lepidoptera). 

 —By A. W. Keppel, F.L.S., F.E.S., and W. E. Kirby, L.S.A., with 30 

 coloured plates. — [Pubd. by E . Nister.] This is a rather handsome quarto, 

 made in Germany, which is to be commended for its general accuracy 

 and really excellent plates, of which 12 are devoted to butterflies, 4 to 

 Sphingides, 6 to Bombycides, leaving 6 for Noctuides, and 2 for 

 Geometrides. It devotes from 30 to 300 Avords to a species, generally 

 80 or 90, much in the style of Newman's Moths. It does not, how- 

 ever, include even all the English species, still less all the European, 

 so that we can imagine its being, on occasions, very disappointing. 

 The classification is of a good old crusted character, a blemish, how- 

 ever, Avhich it enjoys in common Avith Barrett's more ambitious work, 

 still this Avould prevent our recommending it to the tyro, yet, unless 

 it is intended for the young collector with plenty of pocket money, 

 we hardly see the precise role it is intended to fill. 



The Cambridge Natural H^'^tory (Vol. v.) — Peripatus by Adam 

 Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S., and Myriapods by F. G. Sinclair, M.A. — 

 Insects. — Part L, Introduction, Aptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, and 

 a portion of Hymenoptera (Sessiliventres and Parasitica) by David 

 Sharp, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. [Published by MacMillan & Co., 17/6 net] . 

 This volume does not deal with the more popular Orders of insects, and 

 may on that account beat first sight less attractive to entomologists than 

 the succeeding one. Inasmuch, however, as it treats of those Orders that 

 usually receive less attention, and contains an introduction dealing with 

 anatomy, embryology and metamorphosis, as Avell as an account of two 

 lower classes leading up to the Insecta, we suggest that it ought to be 

 the more Avelcome, as supplying that general knowledge of insects and 

 an outline of their Orders, that it is so desirable that the student of 

 any one section of insect life should possess, whilst it is not perhaps 

 too technical for the general student, or even in some degree for the 

 general reader. It takes a place that has not hitherto been adequately 

 filled, if we can, indeed, say that it has been occupied at all by any 

 English work since Westwood's Introduction , a work that must still 

 keep its place amongst our books of reference, though, by the lapse of 

 56 years, it is in some respects out of date. Packard's Guide and 

 Comstock's more recent Introduction are more nearly of the same class, 

 but neither is by any means so full, whilst both have a distinctly 

 transatlantic tone, especially in the species selected to illustrate their 

 several families. The structures and anatomy of insects occupy two 

 chapters (60 pp.) embryology and metamorphosis one chapter of 28 pp., 



