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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey Branch. 



We have recently received two interesting parts of these publica- 

 tions : " Preliminary 3iJemoir on the Lowes and Nordenskiold liivers 

 Coal District, Yukon Territory," by D. D. Cairnes, and " New Species 

 of Shells collected by Mr. John Macoun at Barkley Sound, Vancouver 

 Island, British Columbia," described by YVilliam H. Dall and Paul 

 Bartsch. The former paper, besides matter interestino: to the 

 mineralogist and miner, includes an account of the district, illus- 

 trated by several plates and two topographical and geological maps 

 of the Tantalus Coal Area and the Braeburn-Kynacks Coal Area 

 respectively. There are also occasional notes on fauna and flora, 

 fossils, &c. Messrs. Dall and Bartsch's paper is illustrated by a 

 plate representing 9 species of shells. 



Records of the Indian Museum. {A Journal of Indian Zoology.") Vol. 

 iv. no. vi. Issued March 9th, 1911. A Revision of the Species of 

 Tabanus/rom the Oriental Region, including Notes on Species from 

 surrounding Countries. By Gertrude Hicardo. Calcutta. 

 Pp. 111-258; 2 pis. Price 2 rupees. 



A very useful synopsis of the subject. 117 species are included 

 in the present paper, divided into 11 groups, and a table is given of 

 all the species wilh which Miss llicardo is sufficiently acquainted to 

 include them. Many supposed species have been sunk as synonyms, 

 but 40 have been described as new. The paper is entirely syste- 

 matic, and we do not notice any remarks on habits, &c., which, as 

 many collectors are inexcusably careless about recording even 

 localities, is perhaps not surprising. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalcence in the British Museum. 

 Vol. X., Plates cxlviii.-clxxiii. London : Printed by Order of the 

 Trustees, 1911. Price 205. 



Six months after the publication of vol. x. of this epoch-making 

 work the coloured plates illustrating it have appeared. It is easy 

 to see that they accurately represent the moths themselves and, as 

 usual, are drawn and lithographed by our leading entomological 

 artist, Mr. Horace Knight, and are chromolithographed by Messrs. 

 West and Newman. As themoths belong to the swh^amWy Era striance, 

 which is poorly represented in Britain, and even in Europe, most of 

 the figures represent species of forms and colours unfamiliar to 

 British entomologists ; nevertlieless, on pi. cxlviii., which represents 

 moths of the subfamily Acronycti nee described in vols, viii. and ix., we 

 find a figure of a female of Luperina gueneei, Doubl., a British 

 species. This appears to be the only European species figured, 

 among upwards of 8U0 from all other parts of the world; there are, 

 however, a few Palaearctic species, among others, from Algeria, 

 Egj'pt, Asia Minor, &c. This elaborate and well-illustrated mono- 

 graph cannot but be of the greatest value to all Lepidopterists who 

 pay any attention to exotic species. 



