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298 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Potter, Colias edusa (including a specimen of the variety helice) from 
Sandown, Isle of Wight, 1892; Zygena meliloti, Boarmia roboraria, 
Hyria auroraria, from the New Forest, &c. Mr. Robert Dutton, 
Agrotis obelisca from the Isle of Wight; Colias edusa from Sidmouth, 
1892; and Boarmia cinctaria from the New Forest. Mr. W. Dutton, 
Arctia fuliginosa from the Isle of Man; Notodonta carmelita from. 
Marlow; Trichiura crategi from Wolverton; Noctua sobrina from 
Aberdeen, 1891; <Agrotis saucia from the Isle of Wight, and Dian- 
thecia nana from Aberdeen. Mr. W. Hewett, Colias hyale from 
Dartford; a fine variety of Vanessa atalanta (bred) from Canterbury ; 
very dark specimens of Agriopis aprilina (bred) from Durham ; 
Epunda lutulenta, and its var. lunebwigensis, from Sligo; also Stilbia 
anomala from Sligo; Cloantha solidaginis from Derncleugh, Aberdeen- 
shire; fine forms of Xanthia cerago (bred) from  sallow-catkins 
obtained at Bishop’s Wood, Selby; thirty-one specimens of Polia chi, 
including several of the var. olivacea from Durham, var. obscura from 
Mr. Mansbridge of Horsforth, and numerous intermediate forms con- 
necting olivacea and obscura with the type, from Durham, Nottingham, 
Aberdeen, Kirkham Abbey (Yorks.), Horsforth and York; dark speci- 
mens of Cidaria immanata from Inverurie; and Cidaria russata from 
Linlithgow; also two lead-coloured varieties of Melanthia rubiginata 
from Linlitheow.—Witt1am Hewert, Hon. Sec. 
REVIEWS. 
A Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera (Moths). By W. F. 
Kirsy, F.L.8., F.E.S., &e. Vol. I. Sphinges and Bombyees. 
8vo, pp. xii, 951. London: Gurney & Jackson, 1, Paternoster 
Row. Berlin: R. Friedliinder & Son. 1892. 
As early as 1877 Mr. Kirby announced, in the preface to the 
Supplement of his ‘ Catalogue of Lepidoptera Rhopalocera,’ that he 
was preparing a similar work on the ‘ Moths of the World.’ The long 
time which has elapsed before the appearance of the first volume of 
this work is hardly to be wondered at,.when we regard the great 
extent and difficulty of such a labour. The volume before us 
contains only the Sphinges and Bombyces, 29 families in all, some of 
which are divided into subfamilies. Some families of doubtful 
position, which are frequently placed with the Sphinges or Bombyces, 
such as the Ageriid@ and Thyridide, have been omitted, as well as 
certain others which undoubtedly do not belong here, e.g., the 
Euschemide and a large portion of the Melameride, which have been 
proved by the metamorphoses really to belong to the Geometre, as well 
as the types of the old family Chrysangide, which are now usually 
classed as Pyrales. The author has, on the other hand, retained the 
anomalous family Uraniide, in the present volume (although it rather 
interrupts the sequence of families), obviously by reason of the 
affinities of the larve, with those of the Agaristide, &. We quite 
concur with him in this arrangement, and it is a source of the greatest 
wonderment to us that any authors of the present day should still con- 
