50 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Group Americana. — A. leporina, Linn. ; A. aceris, Linn. 



Group Lobelia. — A. psi, Linn. ; A. tridens, Schiff. ; A. strigosa, 

 Fabr. ; A. alni, Linn. 



Group Auricoma. — A. auricoma, Fabr. ; A. rumicis, Linn. ; A. 

 myricoB, Guen. ; A. menyanthidis, View. 



Leporina, which has been twice redescribed by American authors, 

 is stated to be the only species of the genus common to Europe and 

 North America. Aceris is somewhat similar in appearance to large 

 specimens of A. rubricoma, Guen., and its position would seem to be 

 between that species and A. americana, Harris. 



Psi aud tridens belong to the typical section of the Lobeliae ; strigosa 

 is regarded as the European representative of A. connecta, Grote, and 

 aim has relationship with the last named American species, and also 

 with A. f uneralis, Grote and Bob. Of myriccB and the European 

 euphorbia, it is remarked that they bear the same relation to each other 

 that A. nocticaga, Grote, does to A. sperata, Grote. Auricoma and 

 rumicis are both closely allied to A. impressa, Walk. Menyanthidis 

 appears to lack an American ally, while megacephala is " unique and 

 utterly unlike anything represented in the American fauna." Demas 

 and Arsilonche are retained as genera allied to Acronycta. 



All the plates are plain, and the first seven are reprints of a chromo 

 set that was prepared for a publication of the Department of Agri- 

 culture which it was intended to issue in 1885, but which was never 

 brought out. These coloured plates are also enclosed with copies of 

 Prof. Smith's paper sent to entomologists. 



Apart from its value as an authoritative guide to the study of the 

 Acronyctids of North America, the paper will be of great interest to all 

 lepidopterists who are concerned in the work that has been done in 

 the recent past, and is still being carried on, by systematists in pre- 

 paring a substantial foundation upon which may be built up an 

 approximately permanent system of classification of the Lepidoptera. 



Ubersicht der Lepidopteren- Fauna des Grossherzogtums Baden (und der 

 anstossenden Lander). Von Carl Keutti. Zweite Ausgabe, heraus- 

 gegeben von A. Meess und Dr. A. Spuler. 8vo, pp. xii, 361. 

 Berlin : Verlag von Gebruder Borntraeger. 1898. 



This summary, or catalogue, of the Lepidopterous Fauna of the 

 Grand Duchy of Baden was first published in 1853, and in the edition 

 before us the subject has been brought up to date so far as concerns 

 the entry of species known to occur in the area dealt with. These we 

 find are 2568 in number, nearly half of which belong to the TineaB. 



The main divisions are as follows : — Diurna, 133 ; Sphinges, 58 ; 

 Bombyces, 135 ; Nocture, 403 ; Geornetras, 331 ; Pterophoridae, 41 ; 

 Alucitidse, 6 ; Pyralides, 187 ; Tineaa, 1274. 



With some few exceptions the arrangement of families is pretty 

 much the same as that adopted by Staudinger and Wocke (Cat. Lep. 

 Eur. Faun.), but the Diurna are grouped in two sections — A, Rhopa- 



