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body, 26nim. J and ? ; of pronotuui, 5-5mm. J ; of posterior femora, 

 16mm. S • 



Spain : Malaga, Granada, Chiclana, Cartagena, Huescar. 



Species of doubtful position. 



Ephipiiiiiera ele(fans, Fischer, has a short curved ovipositor, and 

 deeply, roundly-emarginate, subgenital lamina in the 3 , and the lobes 

 are rounded in the 2 ■ Length of body, 30mm. <? and y ; of prono- 

 tum, 8-5mm. J , 8mm. ? ; of posterior femora, 19mm. J and $ ; of 

 ovipositor, 16mm. $ . 



Recorded by Fischer from Rome and the Etruscan Apennmes ; 

 probably falls in the genus Steropleiirus. 



E. zelleri, Fischer, is dirty olive-green, with black markings. 

 Length of body, 30mm. 3 and $ ; of pronotum, 8mm. J and ? ; 

 of posterior femora, 19mm. S , 22mm. $ ; of ovipositor, 31mm. 5 ; also 

 recorded by Fischer from Rome. Probably referable to the same genus. 



There is also ^. politus, Navas (1899), from Tarragona; this seems 

 to be synonymous with some other form, but is not referred to by 

 Bolivar. 



The New " Practical Hints."- 



The necessity of producing a second edition of the first part of 

 Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist, has enabled the editor to 

 introduce some very useful subjects Avhich were not included in the 

 first edition of this very helpful volume. To make it a more complete 

 handbook and guide for all sorts and conditions of lepidopterists, seven 

 new chapters of 28 pages have been introduced, dealing with various 

 points with which both beginner and old collector ought to be, and we 

 believe will be, sincerely grateful. 



To know what other people do and how they do it, is often a great 

 desideratum. To have other people's experience presented in concise 

 and understandable form is equally so. In these points the new 

 edition will find a welcome from all. 



The preliminary chapter provides "the holiday-collector" with a 

 warning as to what he must not forget to take with him on his trip, 

 as well as an account of the details of the necessary apparatus, etc., 

 for ordinary collecting. In the second the various methods of "killing" 

 are fully dealt with, and the diflerent forms are discussed fairly and at 

 length — sufibcation cerxns pricking in — each with its "pros and cons." 



"Pinning Lepidoptera" is the next subject presented, with a concise 

 note upon the vexed question of " Uniformity of Pinning," so often 

 sought after, but still an unsolved difficulty. 



In the third chapter the relative sizes and values of "Entomological 

 Pins " will be helpful to many an old hand who may have wondered 

 why some of his insects have become crazy, or why some of the pins 

 have become mere crochet-needles. The evidence of the tendency to 

 reduce the number of sizes of pins in use is suggestive, and leads us to 

 hope that the makers, when they feel the call upon their productions 

 lessened, may be induced to attempt the improvement of those sizes 

 which are still more commonly called for. It has become a matter of 



* Practical Hints for the Field Lepidopterist, pt. I ^second and revised edition), 

 by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. [Price 6s. net.] Published by Elliot Stock, 66, Paternoster 

 Row, London, E.C. 



