440 Bibliographical Notice. 



slightly sinuous lateral stria on each side, extending from the 

 front margin to near the base. The scutellum is broad, 

 rounded and not angulated behind. The elytra are nearly halt 

 as long again as their width in combination, feebly dilated at 

 the sides from the shoulder to the middle, and thence narrowed 

 to the extremities, which are separately rounded. The last 

 segment of the abdomen and parts of the two preceding ones 

 are exposed dorsally. The sternal sutures are straight, the 

 coxae of the front and middle legs small, globular and widely 

 separated, and the hind coxae transverse but rather far apart. 

 The femora are very thick, the hindmost pair in particular 

 being very broad in the middle. The tibiae are short and 

 each bears two terminal spurs beneath, very short and incon- 

 spicuous except the upper one of the front tibia, which is 

 rather long and stout. There are in reality five joints to 

 each of the four anterior tarsi and four to the hind ones, but 

 the basal joint is so extremely short as to be invisible from 

 above. All the joints are simple and the second, or apparent 

 basal joint, is short and scarcely longer than the succeeding 

 one. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalamce. Supplement, Vol. II. By- 

 Sir Geokge Hampson, Bart. Pp. xxiii & 619, pis. xlii.-lxxi. 

 London : printed by Order of the Trustees of the British 

 Museum. 1920. 



This Volume forms a Supplement to Vol. III. of the ' Lepidoptera 

 Phalamae,' issued in 1901, and its publication has been much 

 delayed by the European War. The two families dealt with are 

 the Lithosiadae (Arctianoe) and the Phalsenoididse ( = Agaristida3 . 

 olim). 32 genera and 1295 species are added, making the totals 

 for these groups 232 and 2365 respectively, the supplement to the 

 Arctianse alone adding 1215 species to the original 845, showing 

 the great amount of work that has been done since 1901 ; no new 

 forms, however, are described in the present volume. This is the 

 last of the series to be published during the author's term of office 

 at the Museum, he having retired therefrom on March 20th last. 

 But we believe the text of three more volumes was finished before 

 he left, and these may eventually be published by the Trustees of 

 that institution when sufficient funds are available for the purpose. 

 The supplementary Vol. I., issued in 1914-15, was briefly noticed 

 in this Magazine, (8) xix. p. 291 (March 1917). The MSS. of 

 present volume, it should be stated, was completed early in 1915, 

 and no references to German or Austrian publications which have 

 appeared since August 1914 are given, few of which could have 

 been received in time to be included. 



