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dantly in Cuba, it seems probable that it was brought over in slave 

 ships." This species has also spread northward into Florida and 

 Bermuda and southward to Brazil. 



NOTE ON TWO PREOCCUPIED MUSCID NAMES. 



In the April issue of Psyche I published a synopsis of the Sapromyzidse in which 

 on page 58 was described a new genus of Sciomyzidse under the name Poecilomyia. 

 Hendel (Genera Insectorum, Richardiinse, p. 24, 1911), has previously used this 

 name, hence I propose to change it to Poecilograplia. In the same paper, on 

 page 73, I described a Minettia annulata, overlooking Becker's Lauxania annulata 

 (Ztschr. Hym. Dipt., 1907, 383). In as much as the present tendency is to con- 

 sider Minettia as a subgenus of Lauxania the preoccupied name may be changed 

 to annularis. 



A. L. Me LANDER. 



BOOK REVIEW. 



Seitz, Adalbert. The Macrolepidoptera of the World. To be completed in 16 

 volumes containing about 485 parts, of which two complete volumes and numer- 

 ous parts have been issued. Stuttgart, Verlag des Seitzschen Werkes (Alfred 

 Kernen) 1906. 



This elaborate compendium of the larger Lepidoptera, undertaken by Professor 

 Seitz in 1906, has now reached the stage that its completion within a reasonable 

 time seems to be assured. A large number of fascicles have been issued by Seitz 

 and his various collaborators, who include, Aurivillius Bartel, Eiffinger, Fruhstorfer, 

 Grtinberg, Haensch, Janet, Jordan, Mabille, Pfitzner, Prout, Rober, Rothschild, 

 Standfuss, South, Strand, Warren and Weymer. 



The main feature of the work is a large series of beautifully executed, colored 

 plates, which according to estimate will number about one thousand in the com- 

 pleted set. All which the reviewer has seen are of very exceptional quality in spite 

 of the low price at which they are sold. The letter-press includes descriptions of 

 genera and higher groups as well as of. species and these seem on the whole to be 

 fairly complete, although occasionally the specific descriptions drift into a run- 

 ning commentary on the illustrations. Considering, however, the enormous mass 

 of material to be dealt with, the authors are to be congratulated on avoiding this 

 latter condition to a very great extent. Taken together, the text and figures should 

 make it a comparatively simple matter for any one to identify a large proportion 

 of the species that are described and figured. To facilitate this process, the faunae 

 of the different zoological regions have been grouped into four independent series 

 dealing with the Pakearctic, American, Indo-australian and African fauna? respec- 

 tively. Each is to be complete in itself as a set of four volumes and an additional 

 17th volume to contain general matter on structure, biology and distribution is 

 promised. 



Lepidopterists as well as amateur collectors throughout the world will be very 

 fortunate to have such a generally complete cyclopaedic account of the larger but- 

 terflies and moths. C. T. B. 



