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any part of the drawer without fear of their becoming loose. — [Le 

 Naturaliste, No. 183, 233). 



Asymmetry in Coleoptera. — At the Congress of Caen (the French 

 Association for the Advancement of Science) a paper on the above 

 subject was read by M. Albert Fauvel. Out of the vast number of 

 species comprised in this Order, the author finds only eight cases of 

 specific asymmetry, shown in three species of Osorins from Mada- 

 gascar ; a species of Oxytelus found in India, Madagascar, and the 

 Cape ; two species of Platydema, one from Ceylon, the other from the 

 Island of Damar (Zimor) ; a Diamerus from Guinea and Senegal ; and 

 a Duuhledtja from Japan. A case of generic asymmetry is shown by 

 the genus Fhytolinus from Japan. Lastly, a case of tribal asymmetry 

 in the four genera, Amhhjstomus, Badister, Orescius, and Licinus, 

 forming the tribe of the Licini, a branch of the Carabidfe {I. c. 234). 



Belgian and British Lepidoptera. — It is interesting to note that 

 in a list of Lepidoptera collected by M. de Croraburghe in Belgium 

 during the past season, out of a total of twenty-four species considered 

 noteworthy, eighteen and one variety are also found in Britain, viz. : 

 Lithosia muscerda, Cilix (jlauciita, Stanrupus fagi, CyviatopJiora fiuctuosa, 

 Ayrotis tritici, CharcEas yraminis, Neuronia popularis, Hydrcccia nictitans, 

 H. micacea, Xanthia fidvago and var. Jiavescens, Cucullia absinthii, 

 Flusia vioneta, Evgonia alniaria, Hadena protca, Tapinostola fulva, 

 Hoporina croceago, Cidaria herherata, Eupithecia linariata. — {Annales de 

 la Societe Entomologiqm de Belgique, 1894, x. 504). 



Polygamy in Moths. — Polygamy in two species of North American 

 Heterocera has been observed, viz., CaUosamia promethea and Anisota 

 stigma. In the former case a female mated with four difl'erent males, 

 and another specimen with four dift'erent males the first day of emerg- 

 ence, and the following day attracted an even larger number. In the 

 case of Anisuta stigma, a male copulated with the same female on two 

 successive nights, and with another female the next day. — {Psyche, 

 vol. vii. No. 222, p. 155). The subject is also referred to in No. 223 

 of the same Journal. W. M. 



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EECENT LITERATURE. 

 M. Wytsman's Reissue of H'ubnefs Works on Eivotic Lepidoptera. 



We have already more than once called attention to this praise- 

 worthy undertaking, which places in the hands of lepidopterists two 

 works which have become so rare and costly as hardly to be accessible 

 at all, except to those who are within the reach of large metropolitan 

 libraries. All certainty in the determination of Lepidoptera rests on 

 the correct interpretation of the older authors ; and many of the 

 illustrated books of the last century and the beginning of the present, 

 are not only pre-eminently valuable on this account, but also for the 

 excellence of the illustrations themselves. Nevertheless, illustrated 

 works are not only very expensive to produce, but are generally issued 

 in very limited numbers ; and, as time passes on, they become scarcer 



