Biiliograjihical Sutices. \hU 



There 18 niucli ^fiicrul niatt«'r at thi- bi^iiinin;; uiul (.lul of the 

 work, including soverul tablts of geogTaphiwl distribution. 



Dr. Arnold PaponstocluT, of Wiesbaden, is as well known to cnto- 

 inologiKts as his cousin is known to the outside world us an oculist; 

 and the publication before us is an elaborate nioiiograph of the 

 butterflies of an interesting part of the Papuan fauna, some of the 

 islands of which were visited by the French exj)l()ring expeditions 

 about GO or ?<• years ago, when various buttertlies were collected 

 there. At that time, some of the islands were known as New 

 Britain and New Ireland, but they have received other names 

 since they came into (ierman hands. It is not to be expected that 

 BO distant and outlying a fauna sh<nild contain many species which 

 are also found in Europe: the only species that strikes us, on 

 glancing through the paper, '\s I'lelieiits fiitlicits ; hut this is rather an 

 outlying European n'pre^entative of a trojiical group tlum a specially 

 European species. The present j)a])er on the Buttertlies is to be 

 ftillowed, later, by another on the Cloths, which eutoraologists will 

 doubtless look forward to with much interest. 



The third work on our list relates to the Order Orthoptcra, and 

 consists of lists of species captured in Batchian, Borneo, Celebes, 

 llalmahera (otherwise called (jilolo), Ternate, and Java, with de- 

 scriptions of numerous new species ; and ta))les are given of the 

 species included in some of the genera. The descriptions strike us 

 as being, in many cases, rather too short to be quite sufficient for 

 identification ; but the measurements are carefully given in all 

 cases, and a considerable number of species are figured, sometimes 

 the whole insect, and sometimes only a leg or pronotum. This work 

 will be very useful to students of Orthoptcra, who, however, we fear 

 are not too numeroiie at present. 



Aew Zealand Moths and BtitUrJlies {Macro-Lepidoptera). By G. V. 

 HcDsoN, F.E.S. (Author of ' An Elementary Manual of New 

 Zealand Entomology'). With l;i Plates. 4to. lbi)8. West, 

 Newman, & Co. Pp. xix, 1-14. 



The Eauna of New Zealand, as might be expected from its outlying 

 position, is comparatively poor, but extremely inteiesting from the 

 number of indigenous species absolutely peculiar to the islands. As 

 regards Lepidojitera, the first attempt to bring together the scattered 

 information existing on the subject was made by Dr. A. G. Butler 

 in 1874, who included an account of the order in the " Voyage of 

 the 'Erebus 'and 'Terror,'" enumerating 318 species. Of these, 

 \'.V2 were Maero-J.epidoptera, and are represented by 234 species in 

 Mr. IJudson's work, the number of species detected in New Zealand 

 having been nearly doubled by the ])resent time. Consequenllv wo 

 shall probably be not very far wrong if wc assume the total iiumlter 

 of New Zealand species now known to be about GOo, which at a 

 moderate estimate we may expect may ultimately be raised to .s(.»0, or 

 perhaps even lUOO. The majority of these are moths. Of butterflies 

 Dr. Butler enumerates !♦, of which one at least is very doubtful ; 

 ^Ir. Hudson admits l'», and mentions "> other reputed species, 3 



