Ixvii 



A synopsis of the Odonata (LihelluUe) of America, by Dr. H. A. 

 Hagen, is given in the ' Proceedings,' Boston Soc. N. H. (xviii. 

 p. 20—96). 



Trichoptera. 



The fifth part (together with a Supplement to part 1) of 

 * A Monographic Revision and Synopsis of the Trichoptera of the 

 European Fauna,' with eight plates, by Robert M'Lachlan, F.L.S., 

 has a]3peared and fully maintains the classical character of this 

 important work — a genuine labour of love, the preparation of 

 which, with the very numerous figures of anatomical details, must 

 have required a very lai^ge amount of time and patience, the 

 fragile nature of the Caddis-flies rendering them very dif&cult of 

 manipulation. 



Dr. Brauer has published the descriptions of some new species 

 of Trichoptera in the twenty-fifth volume of the Vienna Verhandl. 

 Zool. Bot. Gesellsch. 



Lepidoptera. 



Lepidopterists who for the last twenty-five years have 

 periodically welcomed the beautiful plates of Mr. Hewitson's 

 'Exotic Butterflies' will regret the termination of that work 

 with the fifth volume. The entire work comprises 300 plates, 

 containing 2113 figures, illustrating not fewer than 1167 new 

 species, together with 65 which had been previously figured in 

 an unsatisfactory manner. It is to be hoped that the author will 

 be spared to complete his separate work on the Lycsenidse, as well 

 as his plates of the " obscure Hesperidae," to which he alludes in 

 the preface of his completed work. 



The work commenced by Messrs. Felder, which was temporarily 

 suspended by the lamented death of the younger author, has 

 been continued through the past year by the publication of an 

 elaborate set of plates containing an almost infinite profusion of 

 figures of Nocturnal Lepidoptera, admirably drawn and coloured. 

 The text, it is to be regretted, is unfortunately confined to a mere 

 catalogue of the names and localities of the species figured. 



Descriptions of various new species of butterflies, and also of a 

 remarkable new Attacus from Australia, have been published by 

 Mr. Miskin in our ' Transactions.' 



The beautiful work upon ' The Butterflies of North America,' 



