loos.] 187 



Mallota cimbiciformli, Fin., in Northamptonxhire. — On July 16th T took an 

 example of the rare Dipteron, Mallota eimbieiformix, Fin., in Ashton Wold, 

 Oundle, on privet blossom. I am indebted to Mr. E. E. Austen for the identification 

 of the specimen in question.— N. Ckarles Rothschild, 6, Chelsea Court, S.W. : 

 July, 1908. 



Peyomyid itniniftata, v. Ro*.,and P. setaria, Mgn., in North Kent.— With refer- 

 ence to Mr. A. E. J. Carter's article in the June number of this Magazine, T am 

 pleased to be able to record the capture of two males of P. univittata, v. Ros., at 

 Rexley on June 20th. T also take this opportunity of recording the capture of a 

 male of P. setaria, Mgn., at Chattenden on August 19th, 1905. This specimen 

 agrees in most points with the description of P. setaria, Wdm ., in Dr. Meade's 

 " Descriptive List of British Anthomyiidse "; it is not included in the second edition 

 of Mr. VerralPs " List of British Biptera," but Mr. Carter, who has been good 

 enough to compare my specimen with the description in Herr Stein's recent Mono- 

 graph, agrees in its identification as P. setaria, Mgn. — H. W. Andrews, Shirley, 

 Welling, Kent: June 27th, 1908. 



Jletnctu. 



A Natural History of the British Butterflies, their World-wide 

 Variation and Geographical Distribution ; a Text-Book for Students 

 and Collectors : by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. Vol. II, pp. 495, plates xxviii 

 London : Elliot Stock. Berlin : Friedlander & Sohn. 1907—1908. 



The second volume of Mr. Tutt's great work on our British butterflies deals 

 with the very interesting little group of the superfamily " Rural ides," known to 

 collectors as " Hairstreaks " (Rurah'nas), and with the first two of our " Blues " 

 (Lycieninse) — the essentially tropical Lampides beetles, a rare visitor to our 

 shores, and our much more familiar " Holly Blue," Celastrina arqiohis. To these 

 seven species 400 pages are devoted, and the fact that the account of the last named 

 butterfly, with a general summary of the tribe (Celastrinidi) to which it is referred, 

 occupies no fewer than 105 pages (pp. 378—482), shows, if further proof were 

 needed, that the work of Mr. Tutt is if possible even more detailed and con- 

 scientious than in the volume on the subject that has already appeared. Every 

 reference to each of these butterflies, from pre-Linnsean times to the present date, 

 would seem to have been brought together by the indefatigable author and his 

 colleagues in the woi'k, and the result is a mass of information which would be 

 positively overwhelming were it not for the clear arrangement with which we are 

 now familiar in Mr. Tutt's books ; though perhaps here and there a little repetition 

 may be noticed. 



From such a wealth of valuable material it is by no means easy to make choice 

 of any one subject of outstanding interest. We would, however, refer specially to 

 the discussion as to the nature of the green colouring of the under-side of Callo- 

 phrys rwbi (pp. 97 — 99) ; and to the very full account of the life-histories of 

 Edioardsia w-album (of which the generic name, pre-occupied in both Zoology and 

 Botany, is amended by Mr. Tutt on p. 483 to the somewhat quaint title of 



