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"For those interested in the study of the smaller moths, 

 this hook will be found of great use : the ways of catching, 

 keeping, rearing, killing and setting these minute creatures 

 are fully detailed." — Athenaeum. 



" This edition presents several new features ; firstly, some 

 fourteen pages devoted to the Entomological localities in the 

 neighbourhood of London, with the means of getting to them, 

 and what to be found in them fully detailed. To the London 

 Entomologist this will, we think, prove a welcome addition; 

 secondly, we have an account often days at Kilmun, with a 

 trip to the Island of Arran ; and lastly, we have the journal 

 of a Microlepidopterist for the year 1853, which may fairly 

 stand as a model of such things. This volume should be 

 found in every collector's possession ; as a handbook they 

 will find it invaluable." — Natural History Review. 



GEODEPHAGA BRITANNIC A; a Monograph of 

 the Carnivorous Ground Beetles indigenous to the British 

 Isles. By John Frederick Dawson, LL.B. Coloured 

 Plates. London : John Van Voorst. Price 125. 



u In consequence of a suggestion made to me by several 

 of my entomological friends and correspondents, I have been 

 induced to undertake, and at length to publish, a specific 

 arrangement of the carnivorous ground beetles indigenous 

 to the British Isles, a group to which I have paid much 



attention I have been unwilling to reject any 



reputed indigenous species which I felt I could reasonably 

 retain ; and yet, after full consideration, have been compelled 

 to reduce their a^^reuate amount very considerably, either 

 because many of them are evidently varieties of others, or 

 because no sufficiently conclusive evidence exists to warrant 

 their retention in the British Fauna." — Preface. 



" From a comparison of Mr. Dawson's Tabula Specierum 

 with the corresponding portion of Stephens's Manual, we find 

 in the latter 449 species, while in Mr. Dawson's list there are 



