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The Butterflies of North America. By W. H. Edwards. Second 

 Series, Part xi. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. ; London: Triibner & Co. 1883. 

 4to. 



A very magnificent Part of this magnificent woi'k. The three exquisite plates 

 illustrate : (1) three species and varieties of Pieris, and contains about twenty 

 figures ; (2) Limenitis Uros, with about twenty-five figures, a pictorial complete life- 

 history ; (3) Lemonias Nais and Palmerii, with about thirty figures, also forming 

 life-histories. The details of habits and economy are, as usual, of the fullest possible 

 nature. Those for Limenitis Eros are especially interesting and singular, the habits 

 of the larvae of this species (which feed on willow) being extraordinary, they forming 

 " perches " out of the artificially-stiffened mid-ribs of the leaves on which they rest, 

 and making little packets of bits of leaf, the position of which is changed as the leaf 

 is devoured ; the object of these packets the author has failed to determine. Part 

 xii, concluding the Second Series, is to be occupied by a revised List of North 

 American Butterflies. 



The Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. Parts 4 — 6. 

 London : W. Satchell & Co. ; Leeds : Taylor Brothers. 1882—1883. Svo. 



Three very respectable Parts, the " Transactions " of this strong and energetic 

 " Union," have just reached us. They entirely concern the Zoology and Botany of 

 Yorkshire, and should be of the greatest service to naturalists generally, and to those 

 of Yorkshire in particular. Entomology is a leading feature, and consists of notes 

 on Yorkshire Kymeno'ptera by Messrs. Bairstow, Roebuck and Wilson, and the com- 

 mencement of a List of Yorkshire Lepidoptera by Mr. Porritt (occupying a portion 

 of Part 5 and the whole of part 6) ; from this we learn that 1343 of the 2031 

 British species have been found in Y^orkshire. Tliis latter list has evidently been 

 patiently compiled, and the author has apparently sought out every available source 

 of information, both old and recent : moreover, the indications of localities are 

 copious, perhaps sometimes too copious in the case of common species. 



The Natural History of Hastings and St. Leonards and the vicinity. 

 First Supplement. Pp. 1—53. 1883. 



In Yol. XV, p. 72 (August, 1878), of this Magazine, we had occasion to report 

 favourably on the efforts of the energetic body of Naturalists located at Hastings 

 and vicinity, with respect to the publication of a complete Fauna and Flora of their 

 district. During the five years that have elapsed since the publication of their first 

 report, they have evidently not been idle, and this " first supplement " is almost as 

 bulky as the original. Among the contents we find an entirely new and complete List 

 of the Coleoptera, compiled according to Dr. Sharp's new Catalogue. Symenoptera, 

 Hemiptera, Neuroptera and Diptera are also catalogued in considerable detail, and 

 the list of wasps and bees may be regarded as tolerably complete (amongst the Ich- 

 neumonidcB and TenthredinidcB much evidently remains to be done). About ninety 

 additional species of Lepidoptera are recorded, and mostly amongst the Micros ; 

 this we regard as a favourable feature. Nearly 3560 species of insects have now 

 been recorded from the district. 



