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hundred diameters. The pedicel (pd).which supports it is at 
least twice as long, of uniform diameter throughout, and very 
slender, in fact not much thicker than the flagellum. It is 
attached (pd) to the bottom of the calyx, exactly opposite to 
the point from which the contractile ligament (7) arises; but, 
unlike the latter, it appears to be totally incapable of contrac- 
tion. 
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
The Natural History of the Tineina. By H. T. Srarytoy. 
Vol. X. Svo. London: Van Voorst. 1867. 
BrrorE saying anything upon the contents of the present volume, 
we must congratulate Mr. Stainton upon having reached the first 
halting-place in his laborious undertaking. He has every reason to 
glance back with satisfaction over the ten beautiful volumes which 
he has produced in the last thirteen years; and although he himself 
speaks, in a somewhat deprecatory tone, of his,having failed to keep 
up to his original estimate of two volumes annually, we fancy that 
most of his readers will think that he has accomplished a gigantic 
amount of work. 
The present volume contains the Natural History of twenty-four 
species of the genus G'elechia; so that, with the contents of the ninth 
volume, Mr. Stainton has illustrated forty-eight species of that diffi- 
cult group. But suchis the progress of discovery now-a-days that it 
seems difficult for an author even to keep pace with it. These forty- 
eight species are scarcely more than a fifth of the known European 
members of the genus, which now, according to Mr. Stainton’s list 
of them, amount to 231; but of these the transformations of only 
about 100 are known, so that in reality we have in these two volumes 
the history of nearly half those species whose life has been thoroughly 
investigated. 
In comparing the habits of these larvee with those of the nearly 
allied genus Depressaria, in which the history of fifty-two out of 
eighty-one species was known in 1861, Mr. Stainton arrives at some 
curious results with regard to what may be called their botanical 
distribution. Thus, whilst nearly half the known larve of Depres- 
saria feed upon Umbelliferous plants, no single Gelechia is known to 
derive its nourishment from that order ; the Compositee, which nou- 
rish fourteen Depressarie (out of fifty-two), have only ten Gelechie 
(out of 100) attached to them; the Leguminosve are patronized by 
about twice the number of the latter in proportion to the former 
genus ; and the Caryophyllaces, which are quite free from the attacks 
of Depressarie, are known to harbour fourteen species of Gelechia. 
It will be unnecessary for us to follow Mr. Stainton through his 
elaborate historical notice of the genus, or the histories of the twenty- 
four species here set forth; his mode of treatment of his subject must 
