154 Bib Hi Hj ntjihicid }\u f ici s . 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL xXOTLCKS. 



Jihoidloctra .Eihiopicd. Dw Tdf/faltcr des yEthioplsihen Faunen- 



(febietes. Eine fysteinatisc?i-</co(jraphis(he Studie. Von Chk. 



AvKiviLLius. Mit (5 Tafeln. Der Koniyl. Ahidemie der Wissen- 



schafhii vorficleyt den 8 Jtini 1898. (Koii;/!. Svenska Veten- 



shaps-Akademiens Handlimjar, Bandet 31, No. 5.) Stockholm, 



1898 (oorroctly, 1899). Bp. 50 1. 

 Vie Lejiidopierettfiiuna dcs Bisinanh-Airhlpels. \ ou Dr. Arnold 



I'AGBNSTKcnKR. Eistcr Thcil : Die Tof/falter. Alit 2 color. Tafeln. 



(Zooloyica, Heft 27.) Stuttgart, 1899. Pp. KiO. 

 Orthopteren dts Alaloifischen ArclnpeJs, (jesammelt von Prof. Dr. W. 



KtKKNTiiAL in din Jahren 1893 und 1894, bearbeitei von Brvnner 



VON Wattenwyl, unier Bcriiclsichiigunij neitcr veruandter Species. 



Mit fiinf Tafeln. (Ahhandl. d. Seackeiibertjischen naturforschenden 



GeseVschaft, Band xxiv. Heft 2.) Frankfort on-Main, 1898. 



Pp. 193-288. 

 A PROMINKNT feature of learned Transactions and other Conti- 

 nental scientific publications in quarto is the encouragement which 

 they offer to the issue of large and important works on Ento- 

 mology, which would otherwise perhaps never see the light, and 

 which are often accompanied with more fitting illustrations than 

 would be possible ou octavo plates, which are frequently too small 

 to represent large insects properly. AVc have grouped three such 

 publiratioiis together in the present notice. 



Sweden has always been proniineut in tlie study of African Lepi- 

 doptera. Many species from North, West, and South Africa are 

 described in Linne's ' Systema Naturae ' ; and the papers by Wallen- 

 grcn and Zeller on the species collected by Wahlberg in Caffraria, 

 and published just about the time when Mr. Trimen first went out 

 to the Cape, may be said to have inaugurated a new era in our 

 studies. And now Prof. Aurivillius has given us a synopsis of the 

 butterflies of the whole of Ethiopia Africa and Madagascar, 

 numbering at present 1012 species — a total sure to be largely 

 increased every year, esjjecially now that his book has rendered 

 the determination of species so easy. The Hesperiidic are not 

 included, being regarded as a separate group from the more typical 

 butterflies. 



The book is published in German, as being better known to ento- 

 mologists in general than Swedish. It could hardly be expected 

 that the species, except novelties, should be described in full ; 

 we arc, however, not only given synopses of families and genera, 

 but often even of the species in the dift'ercnt genera, such synopses 

 being, in most cases, sufhcicnt for identification. 



Before completing his work. Prof. Aurivillius made a tour to 

 inspect the various collections containing African butterflies, visiting 

 Denmark, Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, and England ; but 

 we regret that he does not appear to have met Mr. Trimen. 



A classified list of 142 works on African Lepidoptera, arranged 

 geographically, will be found very useful. 



