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most comprehensive work on the moths yet issued. It 

 contains descriptions as far as the end of the Pi/ralida, the 

 Micro- Lepidoptera being much less fully treated; but no 

 plates, it is divided as follows, being paged in seven 

 sections : 1 — 7, Bomhyces, &c.; 8, ^yeriidce and Sphingidce ; 

 9—\b, NoctiKB ; 16—19, Deltoidce and Pyralid(B ; 20—26, 

 GeometridcB ; 27 — 30, Micro- Lepidoptera ; 31 — 35, Sup- 

 plement. There is a small work by Morris (without plates) 

 on the ' Described Lepidoptera of North America,' but only 

 one part has been published, containing butterflies. Sphinges, 

 and Bomhyces. There is another, by Ross, on the ' Butterflies 

 and Moths of Canada,' with woodcuts ; but it is very incom- 

 plete. There are many large and expensive illustrated works 

 on European and foreign Lepidoptera ; but the best of the 

 cheaper publications on European Lepidoptera are probably 

 Staudinger and Wocke's ' Catalog der Lepidopteren des 

 Europaeischen Faunengebiets' (without descriptions), Von 

 Heinemann and. Wocke's ' Schmetterlinge von Deutschland' 

 (no plates), and Berce's ' Lepidopteres de la France.' The 

 latter has some good coloured plates, which will be found 

 very useful ; plain copies are not to be recommended, as the 

 butterflies figured are not described in the text. There are 

 also several popular illustrated works on German Lepi- 

 doptera, with which I am not sufficiently acquainted to 

 express any opinion. Works treating of separate groups 

 will be noticed in subsequent papers. 



Zoological Department, Eoyal Dublin Society, 

 February, 1877. 



A SIX WEEKS' ENTOMOLOGICAL TOUR IN 

 SWITZERLAND. 



By J. C. W. Tasker. 



The tenacity with which English collectors confine them- 

 selves to British species, and pay fabulous prices for doubtful 

 specimens of the rarer kinds, which have probably reached 

 the shores of Old England without the aid of their wings, is 

 surprising to an entomologist revelling in the good things 

 which this country so readily offers for his cabinet. 



With the hope of inducing some brother chasseurs to 



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