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it. All the small butterflies are soon closed over by the petals, 

 which form their shroud. What astonished me most was to see 

 moths two inches long fixed fluttering for hours quite unable to 

 withdraw the proboscis. I extract the above remarks from a 

 letter received from my uncle, — a fine old sportsman and 

 naturalist, who resides in South Africa, — thinking they may 

 interest your readers. — Clarence E. Fry; Watford, Feb., 1884. 



REVIEW. 



Butterflies of Europe. By H. C. Lang, M.D., F.L.S. Part XVII. 

 London : Lovell Reeve & Co., Covent Garden. 



This, the last part issued of Dr. Lang's very valuable work, 

 is quite up to the standard of the best parts already published. 

 It contains the continuation of the Satyridse, and includes the 

 genera Erebia, GEneis, and Satyrus. The coloured plates 

 illustrating these confusing genera will be found most useful, on 

 account of their accuracy. We understand that three or four 

 more parts will complete the work, which will have the honour of 

 being the first ever written to give collected figures arranged 

 seriatim of all European butterflies ; and will be undoubtedly 

 the best book on the subject that has appeared since Herrich- 

 Schaffer's ' Schmetterlinge von Europa.' In the latter work the 

 plates are hand-coloured in the finest manner, which made the 

 cost of its purchase beyond the means of most persons who take 

 an interest in this subject; but in the case of Dr. Lang's work, 

 chromo-lithography has furnished a sufficiently good text-book 

 for all ordinary purposes. 



Besides providing figures and descriptions of every strictly 

 European species, the author has briefly described the remaining 

 palsearctic species known up to the present date. Added, are 

 short notices at the end of each family of such North-American 

 forms as are most nearly allied to those of the palsearctic region, 

 thus rendering the book very complete. 



Before closing this notice, mention should be made of the 

 excellently careful work of Mr. Horace Knight, for the firm of 

 West, Newman & Co., who has drawn from nature all the figures 

 of the species represented. — J. T. C. 



