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Kobert Hewett's room, St. Mary's Churchyard. No paper was read, 

 but a variety of interesting Natural History specimens were exhibited, 

 among which were the series of varieties, about fifty in number, of 

 Arctia caia, shown by Mr. W. E. Butler, and a drawer of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera, beautifully mounted, by Mr. A. H. Hamm. — Fred. W. 

 Leslie, Hon. Sec. 



EECENT LITEKATURE. 



The Butterflies and Moths of Tenetiffe. By A. E. Holt White. Edited 

 by Rashleigh Holt White, Vice-President of the Selborne 

 Society. Illustrated from the Author's drawings. London 

 L. Reeve & Co. 1894 [Dec. 19, 1893] . 



Mrs, Holt White has rendered a real service to entomologists, as 

 well as to tourists or invalids interested in insects, who may visit the 

 Canary Islands, in publishing a fairly complete and reliable, though 

 popular, account of the Macro-Lepidoptera of Teneriffe, most of which 

 are illustrated on the four plates which accompany this volume ; for 

 the fauna is very limited. The introductory observations on collecting, 

 rearing, &c., are useful, and the transformations of the various species 

 are noticed, as far as they have been observed. Several species are 

 figured in this book for the first time, and a detailed account is given of 

 the interesting and little-known Arctiid, Rhijporioides rufescens, Brulle, 

 which is peculiar to the Canaries, in all its stages. 



The Atlantic islands are very poor in Lepidoptera, and much 

 remains to complete our knowledge on the subject, especially in 

 the Micro-Lepidoptera, notwithstanding Rebel's recent paper in the 

 'Annalen d. k. k. naturhist. Hofmuseums,' vii., pp. 241-284, pi. xvii. 

 The most complete lists are as follows : — 



Macros. Micros. Total. 



Azores (Godman) 23 5 28 



(Nat. Hist. Azores ; 1870.) 

 Madeira (Bethune -Baker) ... 70 — 70 



(Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891.) 

 Canaries (Holt White & Rebel) . . 64 63 127 



St. Helena (Mrs. Wollaston) . . 30 64 94 



(Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 3 ; 1879.) 



We have thought it useful to give a comparative table of the Macro- 

 Lepidoptera (inclusive of Deltoides and Geometridaes, but not Py- 

 ralidfes) of the three first groups of islands, St. Helena lies so much 

 further to the south, and so many of its species are probably endemic, 

 that it must be regarded as belonging to a totally different fauna ; but 

 in our table we have marked any species likewise found in that island 

 with an asterisk. The ouly butterfly of the four found in St. Helena 

 not in our table is Hijpolimnas mi&ippus, and it is this butterfly, and not 

 Danais chri/sippus, which is found in America in the localities assigned 

 by Mrs. Wollaston to the latter butterfly. Ouly three Sphinges are 

 recorded from St. Helena, and no Bombyces; indeed the scarcity of 

 Bombyees in all the Atlantic islands is specially remarkable. 



