234 Bibliographical Notices. 



of larvie ; variation of imagines, protective coloration, and defensive 

 structures of larvoe ; and classification. The Phylogenetic Tree 

 illustrating the last section is extremely complicated, and will be 

 found worth study, as graphically illustrating the authors views on 

 the relation of the various groups of Lepidoptera. 



It is not possible to speak of this portion of the book in detail. 

 British and foreign authors are freely quoted, but large portions are 

 founded on the direct observations of the author himself, or cast 

 into a form regulated by his extensive knowledge of the subject. 



The second part of the volume contains the life-historj' of a 

 portion of the " Sphingo-Micropterygid stirps," working from the 

 more generalized to the more specialized super-families, according 

 to the system selected by the author. Only four super-families are 

 discussed in the first volume — the Micropterygides. the Xejjticulides, 

 the Cochlidides (or Eucleides), and the Anthrocerides — comprising 

 about 100 species, giving an average of three or four pages to each 

 species. In many cases, however, this limit is far exceeded, the 

 notice of Anthrocera filipendidcr alone filling twenty-five pages, 

 under the various heads of synonymy, original description, imago, 

 sexual dimorphism, variation (with notices of varieties from a to £), 

 ovum, larva, variation of larva, cocoon, pupa, dehiscence, food-plants, 

 parasites, habits and habitat, time of appearance, localities, and 

 distribution. 



One commendable practice of the author's is to reprint the original 

 description, whether short or long. In the case of A. filipendulce, 

 a Linnean species, it happens to be barely two lines long; but in 

 the case of some of the NeptkuUf it runs to nearly a page. The 

 relationships between foreign and British genera and species are 

 likewise freely discussed. 



We have said enough to show the enormous compendium of 

 information which Mi-. Tutt has brought together from all sources, 

 published and unpublished, making his book a regular cyclopaedia on 

 almost all subjects connected directly or indirectly with British 

 Lepidoptera. We hope that the author may receive some little 

 return for the unavoidable amount of weary drudgery (to say nothing 

 of the time spent in really interesting work) that he must have 

 devoted to his self-imposed task, in the grateful recognition of his 

 labours by his fellow Entomologists. 



All about Birds. By W. Percival Westell. 

 ' Feathers ' PubHshing Co. 8vo. 



This should have been entitled 'The Young Bird-lover's Scrap- 

 book.' It is nothing whatever but a collection of cuttings, more or 

 less closely relating to birds, of varying degrees of merit, culled from 

 good, bad, or indifferent sources ; these are put together in no 

 sort of order, but appear just as taken haphazard from the author's 

 lucky-bag. 



Some of the statements reproduced in this olla jwdrida are rather 

 startling. As one who knows experimentally rather more than the 



