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__ be by this time well known to all entomologists. We can only wish 
_ him good speed in the continuation of his great work, and notice the 
fact that in subsequent volumes there will be some little departure 
from the plan hitherto adopted. The preceding volumes have often 
been seriously delayed by the difficulty of making up a set of his- 
tories of twenty-four species belonging to one or at most two genera ; 
and this difficulty Mr. Stainton finds increasing upon him now that 
a considerable proportion of the species in some of the more exten- 
sive genera have been described and illustrated. In one instance, 
he tells us, a volume was kept waiting more than a year for the life- 
history of a single species. Under these circumstances he has re- 
solved (we think judiciously) to give up the attempt to fill each volume 
with species of the same genus. We hope that he may receive the 
encouragement of a heavy subscription list. 
The Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor. By H. T. Srarytoy, F.L.S. 
8vo. London: Van Voorst. 1867. 
In the preface to the volume just noticed Mr. Stainton announces 
his intention of publishing a series of works upon the Tineina of 
various districts. The first of these, published early last year, is the 
little yolume now before us, on the Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor ; 
those in contemplation or in progress are on the members of the 
same beautiful group of Lepidoptera inhabiting Scandinavia, the 
Alps, and Southern Europe. 
The inducement to the production of the present work was fur- 
nished by a collection of Microlepidoptera found in Palestine in 1865 
by the Rey. O. Pickard Cambridge, and-submitted to Mr. Stainton 
for identification and description. This led him to bring together all 
the papers published on the Tineina of western Asia, and to procure 
the loan of many of the type specimens ; and in this volume we have 
_ the results of his investigations. It appears that, previously to Mr. 
_ Cambridge’s visit, eleven collections containing species of Tineina had 
_ been made in Syria and Asia Minor by German travellers ; and no- 
_ tices of these, with descriptions of new species, were published in 
_ Yarious periodicals by MM. Zeller, Mann, and Lederer. Mr. Stainton 
has here reproduced the lists of species, and reprinted (in the original 
_ German) the descriptions of new forms, so as to bring into a focus, 
__ 48 it were, all the specially Levantine literature of the Tineina. To 
these he adds a catalogue of the species and descriptions of the new 
forms collected by Mr. Cambridge, descriptions of many of the species 
previously characterized by the above-mentioned authors, and of 
_ Some other new species obtained from various sources. The number 
oe of species is 389, which are brought together in a table at the end 
_ of the book, showing, in parallel columns, the expeditions in which 
_ they were collected, with indications of their comparative abundance 
or rarity in the different localities. 
Although unpretending in its form, this little work is one that 
_ must have taken no small labour in its preparation, and its import- 
_ ance is not to be measured by its bulk. In the present aspect of 
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