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as against 42 in Great Britain. This seems sing-nlar, as there are so many 

 apjDai-ently exceptionally suitable localities for these conspicuous insects. The 

 scarcity, too, of tlie, in England, almost xiniversally abimdant and distribvited 

 Panorpidse, is remarkable, the only species recorded being Fanorpa germanica, 

 and it for only the Cork district. No species of Raphidia or Nothochrysa has 

 been recorded at all ; and the absence of Chrysopa perla, so abundant in 

 England almost anywhere, also culls for comment. On the other hand the List 

 includes four species of Trichoptcra which are as yet um-ecorded for Great 

 Britain, viz., Lininophilus fuscinervis, Tinodes macucicornis, Apatania fimhriata, 

 and Lyx>e fragilis. The captvu-es of the very rare Psectra dijyterd at Wexford, 

 and the occvirrence commonly of Chrysopa ahhreviata on the sand-hills at Port- 

 marnock, are most noteworthy. 



We heartily congratulate the authors and the Royal Irish Academy on 

 so interesting and valuable a contriljution to the literatiu'e of the Natural 

 History of Ireland.— G. T. P. 



Illustrations of African Ltc^knid^ ; being Photographic Eepresenta- 

 tions of the Type Specimens contained in the Imperial Zoological Museum at 

 Berlin. By Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S., &c. London : Published by H. H, 

 Druce at 43, Circus Road, N.W. 1910. 



The author of this exceedingly useful little work has been enabled, by the 

 kindness of the Director, to obtain photographs of the type-specimens in the 

 Imperial Zoological Musevun at Berlin, of the species of African Lycsenidas 

 described by Herr E. Suffert and Dr. F. Karsch, in "Iris" and other German 

 periodicals of recent date. These photographs, representing abovit 40 hitherto 

 luifigured species, are reproduced on eight admirable half-tone plates, with 

 brief explanatory letter-press ; and these will not fail to be highly appreciated 

 by all students of exotic butterflies, especially by those whose attention is 

 directed to the Family on which Mr. Druce is so well known as one of the 

 leading authorities. 



iiuarics. 



Basil George Ncvinson, M.A., who died on December 27th last, at 3, Tedworth 

 Sqiiare, Chelsea, was born at Leicester on November 2nd, 1852 ; he was educated 

 at Shrewsbury School, from which he proceeded to Exeter College, Oxford, and 

 afterwards became a barrister. He was a member of the Conservative Club, and 

 of the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club. 



Mr. Nevinson was a man of very versatile tastes ; he was a great lover of 

 music, and was himself no mean performer on one or two instruments. His 

 house was a veritable museum of objects of art and of curiosities of all kinds ; 

 his collection of Chinese robes and Japanese embroideries was one of the best 

 private collections in existence, and he was much interested in bronzes, ivory 

 carvings, and bric-a-brac generally. 



With all this he was a very keen Entomologist ; he was perhaps most 

 interested in the Lamellicornia, especially in the genus Phanseus, of which he 

 published a " Revised Synonymic List " in 1892, and had nearly completed a 

 Monograph ; his series of the very rare genus Plusiotis is almost, if not qiiite, 



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