526 Biblwgraj)Mcal Notice. 



apical margin of the third abdominal segment, widened at its 

 extreme lateral margin till it covers the whole of the ventral 

 segment, an apical spot on the fifth segment, and the anterior 

 and intermediate tarsi, pale yellow ; flagellum of antennas 

 beneath rufous ; coxge, trochanters, and basal portion of the 

 femora of all the legs red ; the apical portion of the femora 

 blackish, the tibire variegated with black, red, and yellow-; 

 posterior tarsi with tlie first joint pale yellow, remainder 

 fuscous ; the clypeus and front are covered with a short, 

 stiff, silvery pubescence. Wings hyaline, very slightly infus- 

 cated at apex ; nervures and tegulte blackish, the latter with 

 a central yellow spot. 



(^ . Similar, smaller, the clypeus less excavate anteriorly, 

 and its margin not subporrect ; the mandibles entirely 

 black ; the yellow apical spot is on the sixth, not the fifth, 

 segment. 



Long. 8-11 millim, 



Bab. Mt. Abu ; common. 



Would come into Bingham^s key after C. bifasciata, under 

 a new sub-section, ''Enclosed space at base of median segment 

 longitudinally striate at base, obliquely at sides.'' 



[To be continued.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Catalogue of the Collection of Palcearctlc Butterflies formed hy the 

 late John Henrtj Leech, and presented to the Trustees of the British 

 Museum hy his Mother, Mrs, Eliza Leech. By Richard South, 

 r.E.S. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1902. 4to. 

 Pp. vi, 229, Portrait, and 2 Coloured Plates. 



The death of so energetic an entomologist as the late Mr. Leech, at 

 the comparatively early age of thirty-eight years, may well recall 

 the words of Mr. H. T. Stainton respecting Dr. Brackenridge 

 Clemens : — " Little did I think, when I received his first letter in 

 1857, two years before he became an author, that his career was to 

 be so brilliant and so short." Far more appropriately might similar 

 words be applied to Mr. Leech. 



Devoted to the study of entomology from his schoolboy days 

 (largely, we believe, through the encouragement of his mother), and 

 possessed of ample means, and untrammelled by a profession, he 

 devoted his life to travelling, and to the formation, by his own 

 efforts and by those of skilled assistants, and the purchase of large 

 special collections, to the formation of the groat collection of 



