80 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



In order that the tyro entomologist may not in his early career be 

 troubled with too much Latinity, the four families of butterflies are 

 named "Brush-footed Butterflies "= Nymphalidae, "Gossamer-winged 

 Butterflies " = Lycaenidae, " Typical Butterflies " = Papilionidse, and 

 " Skippers " = Hesperiidfe, and the subfamilies have also English 

 names. Three keys to the various groups are given, based on the perfect 

 Butterfly, the Caterpillar, and Chrysalis respectively ; these are drawn 

 up with great care, and will doubtless be of great use to the student, 

 even though he may have made much progress in his studies. 



Mr. Scudder's classification is doubtless that which places the 

 families of butterflies in their proper sequence ; and it is much to be 

 regretted that the entomologists who deal with our native species, still 

 persist in interposing the four-legged Nymphalidae between the two 

 six-legged families, the Papilionidae and Hesperiidae : those who wish 

 to be enlightened on this subject cannot do better than read the reasons 

 Mr. Scudder gives for the mode of classification he has adopted. 



Those who confine their studies mainly to our British species of 

 Ehopalocera will find valuable life-histories given of Anosia plexlppus, 

 Vanessa canlui, V. atalanta, Euvanessa antiopa, and of species very 

 closely allied to British, viz., Aglais milberti, congeneric with A.urticcR; 

 Polyyonia progne, faunus, comma, and interrogationis, all four more or 

 less resembling P. c-album; Cyaniris pseudargiolus, almost identical 

 with C. argiolus; Heodes hyjyophlcBas, little more than a geographical 

 race of the only other species of the genus, our familiar H. phlaas; and 

 Pieris oleracea, only slightly differentiated from P. napi ; Pieris rapce 

 has been introduced from Europe, and is now a very destructive species 

 both in Canada and the United States. 



The book is on the whole an excellent introduction to a knowledge 

 of the life-histories of the species treated of, and will be followed by 

 *A Student's Manual of the Butterflies of North America, North of 

 Mexico,' as announced on the fly-leaf at the beginning. 



J. J. W. 



Victorian Butterflies, and how to collect them. By Ernest Anderson and 

 Frank Palmer Spry. Part I. ; Complete, with Index. 8vo, 

 pp. 80. Melbourne : H. Hearne & Co. 1893. 



A WELL-WRITTEN little book, including recognisable woodcuts of 

 the PapilionidaB and Nymphalid® found in Victoria, as well as of 

 their larvffi, so far as known. It will not only be useful in Australia, 

 but also to those who are commencing the study of Exotic But- 

 terflies, by familiarising them with the Australian species, while 

 the attention paid to the larvaB by the authors adds a real scientific 

 value to this unpretentious little work. The second part, including 

 the Lycsenidae and Hesperiidae, is, we are informed, in progress, and 

 will be issued shortly. We believe that copies may be obtained in 

 London from Mr. J. A. Clark, 48, The Broadway, London Fields, 

 Hackney. 



Erratum. — In the Catalogue of Irish Lepidoptera (rt«fe, p. 13), at the 

 close of the notice of Hepialus velleda, after the words ** Co. Sligo, &c.," 

 should be inserted Hepialus lupulinus, L. 



