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the fisherman, &c. If Mr. Wallace's book, and afterwards Miss Orme- 

 rod's "Annual Reports," were to be read very generally, all industries 

 that are affected by insects would, we doubt not, be benefited materially. 



W. J. L. 



The Hoiieii Bee: its Natural History, Anatomy, and Phi/siolntpj. By 

 T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., &c. Second Edition. Pp. 220. London : 

 Houlston & Sons. 1904. 

 In November, 1890, appeared the first edition of this work, which 

 was reviewed in these pages in the volume for 1891. We have now 

 the pleasing duty of noticing a second edition. Mr, Cowan's name is 

 a sufficient guarantee of the usefulness of the work before us, and the 

 text at once reveals tlie thoroughness with which the Honey-bee has 

 been treated from every point of view — a thoroughness which is en- 

 hanced by the numerous excellent illustrations scattered throughout 

 the book. The new edition will no doubt have as wide a circulation 

 as had its predecessor. ^y j l_ 



Transactions of the City of London Entomological and Natural History 



Society for the Year 1903. Svo, pp. 46. The London Institution, 



Finsbury Circus, E.C. 1904. 



The Reports of Meetings (20 pp.) furnish interesting and instructive 



reading. The Presidential Address (Mr. A. W. Mera) deals largely 



with Entomology from the field-worker's point of view. Tiiere is an 



excellent paper by Mr. Louis B. Prout on "Variation in Sciadion 



(GnopJios) obscnrata," which everyone should make a point of seeing. 



Mr. T. H. Hamling contributes "Notes on Breeding Gonodontis hi- 



dentata ab. 7wjra" ; and Mr. A. F. Bayne gives an account of some 



collecting at Tacuarembo, in Uruguay. 



The Lepidoptera of the British Islands. By Charles G. Barrett, F.E.S. 

 Vol. IX. Heterocera. Geometrina — Pyralidina. 8vo, pp. 454. 

 London : Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd. 1904. 

 In this volume the remaining genera of the Larentid?e {Mesotype, 

 Enbolia, Collix, Eupithecia] and the family (Enochromidfe {Aplasia, 

 Tanayra) are treated in the first 160 pages; the remainder of the book 

 being occupied by a large instalment of the Pyralidina. This group 

 the author, so far, divides as follows: — Sect. 1. Pyralites. Fam. 1. 

 Pyraustidffi ; Fam. 2. Pyralidae ; Fam. 3. Hydrocampidfe ; Fam. 4. 

 Endotrichidae ; Fam. 5. Scopariid^e. Sect. 2. PTEROPuoRiDiE. Sect. 8. 

 Orneodid^. Sect. 4. Phycitid.e. We note that Botys is retained in 

 the Pyraustidae, and that nineteen species are placed under it, all of 

 which, with the exception of hyalinalis, are referred by Hampson and 

 Rebel to Pyrausta and Pionea, and by Meyrick to Pyraitsta and Phlyc- 

 ttenia. The three British species, sticicalis, L., verticalis, L., and pale- 

 alis, Schiff., have recently been placed in Loxosteye, Hb., and also in 

 Phlyctcenodes, Hb. So, until their rightful position is definitely ascer- 

 tained, there may be no particular harm in retaining them in Spilodes; 

 but we think that exception will be taken to urticalis, Schiff., and 

 verticalis, Schiff. {rwalis, Scop.), being included with them. 



