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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
The Natural History of the Tineina. By H. T. Stainton. 
Vols. VIII. and IX. 8vo. London: Van Voorst, 1864-1865. 
We have already repeatedly had occasion to notice, in terms of high 
praise, the appearance of the previous volumes of this excellent work; 
and we can hardly say more in favour of the two volumes which have 
appeared in the last two years, than that in every respect they main- 
tain the reputation gained by their predecessors. As he approaches 
the end of the first stage of his journey (his first series of ten volumes), 
Mr. Stainton continues to devote to his task an unflagging zeal and in- 
dustry which prove it to be to him a labour of love; and although, 
from the vastness of the design, we hardly dare hope that the au- 
thor’s energies will last long enough to enable him to complete the 
‘Natural History of the Tineina’ on its present scale, every fresh 
volume that he issues will form one stone the more towards the con- 
struction of a monument which will preserve and adorn his memory 
for many years. And although we trust it may be long before his 
friends will need to be reminded by such a monument of his life and 
labours, we cannot but hope that the consideration thrown out above 
may at least serve as some inducement to him to persevere in the pub- 
lication of the present work, each new volume of which (notwith- 
standing certain defects in its arrangement to which we have already 
more than once called attention) cannot but be received with pleasure 
by every entomologist. Independently of the exquisite beauty of 
the illustrations, it is no small gratification, in these days of slovenly 
work, to have to do with an author who honestly endeavours to tell 
us all about his subject, or at least to make his history of each object 
that comes under his treatment as complete as the existing state of 
knowledge will permit. 
The first of the two volumes indicated at the head of this article 
contains the descriptions and natural history of fifteen species of 
Gracilaria and nine species of the allied genus Orniz, which with 
Coriscium, the distinctness of which from Gracilaria is doubted by 
Mr. Stainton, constitute the subfamily Gracilariide. Of the first- 
mentioned genus, Gracilaria, the author gives a list of forty-three 
known species, five of which inhabit North America, five have been 
brought from the neighbourhood of Calcutta, and three from Moreton 
Bay. The remaining thirty are European species ; and of these, fifteen 
species are undoubtedly inhabitants of Britain. Of the latter, twelve 
are described and figured by Mr. Stainton in the volume before us. 
The larvee of those whose transformations are known, twenty-two in 
number, feed upon plants belonging to a great variety of natural orders, 
among which, however, the Aceraceze, Leguminosze, and Amentiferze 
are most conspicuous. 
This is singularly in contrast with the state of matters in this re- 
spect in the genus Ornix, notwithstanding a close similarity both in 
the characters of the insects forming the two genera, and in the general 
habits of the larvee. Here, out of twenty-two known species, the 
