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of the ancillary appendages of the Noctuida3. This new volume comes, 

 therefore, as a welcome supplement to the literature of a branch of 

 entomological science ever growing in favour and importance with 

 scientific workers. Nor will the minute diagnosis of the organs of 

 the Geometers appeal to the biologist alone. There are plenty 

 of collectors who experience the same difficulties in separating the 

 species of certain Geometrid genera, as exists with the Ehopalocera 

 and Noctuids, difficulties which a more intimate knowledge of these 

 structures should at once resolve. For example, in the genus Oporinia, 

 where wing markings are apt to confuse the inexpert, Mr. Pierce 

 points out that the use of a hand-lens when setting the males will 

 materially help identification of species. He is also in a position to 

 disperse not a few of the legends which have grown up round 

 continental Heterocera, claimed for the British lists, and closely 

 allied to our insular species. Mr. Meyrick twenty years ago 

 expressed the opinion that the "British" Abraxas pantaria, L., 

 were no more than exceptional aberrations of A. sylvata, Sc* Mr. 

 Pierce shows that the appendages are entirely distinct in form ; and 

 the mistake should not be perpetuated. Students will derive con- 

 siderable help from the appended Glossary of Terms, to say nothing 

 of the exquisitely drawn figures of the respective organs, to which in 

 each case is added the name of the species represented side by side 

 with the design ; for there are many who agree with the author and 

 with Mr. Burrows that " drawings are preferable to photographs, as 

 the latter, by showing too much, make it difficult to grasp the 

 significant points." We congratulate Mr. Pierce heartily on this his 

 latest monograph. It should be in the hands of every lepidopterist 

 who employs microscope and hand-lens. 



H. E.-B. 



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Colonel Neville Manders, A.M.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Another name has been added to the imperishable Eoll of Honour 

 by the death of Colonel Neville Manders, Army Medical Service — a 

 name well-known to the Fellows of the Entomological Society of 

 London, among whom he counted a host of friends ; for he was the 

 most genial and lovable of men, an ardent naturalist, and, above all, 

 devoted to the specialised branch of our science which has beec 

 called lepidopterology. Born at Marlborough in 1859, the youngest 

 son of Major Thomas Manders, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), 

 he was educated at Marlborough College, where he early evinced an 

 interest in the local Lepidoptera, as shown in the very last published 

 number of this magazine {antea, p. 196) ; and he has often discussed 

 with the writer of this notice past captures and future possibilities 

 of the neighbouring forest of Savernake. On leaving school he 

 quahfied as F.E.C.P. and M.E.C.S., and entered the Army Medical Ser- 

 vice in 1884. The following year he took part in the Suakin Campaign 

 (medal with clasp and Khedive's Star). From 1887 to 1889 he was 

 with the British forces operating in Burmah, where he was badly 



* ' A Handbook of British Lepidoptera,' p. 2()8. 



