November, 1831.] 



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Amongst the Alucitina our own common Alucita hexadactyla 

 (Linn.) is the sole species recorded as found in Oregon. It is the 

 only unsatisfactory figure in the book, the plates of which are w T ith 

 this exception uniformly excellent.* The letter-press is also good, and 

 the work is "got up " in a style every way satisfactory. 



In conclusion, the following table of European and North Ameri- 

 can plume-moths (Pterophoridce proper) is appended, the British 

 species being in italics : — ■ 



* Our English works on lepidoptera, of which this can be said, are few indeed ; it would be well 

 if our authors would remember that a good description is ever useful, a bad plate is only a delusion 

 and a snare. Why cannot we have a work on Palsearctic Lepidoptera like Dresser's birds? 



