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formation." Twenty-five pages are occupied by the information thus 

 gained. 



Dr. Felt has worthily maintained the reputation of these reports, 

 acquired during Dr. Lintner's tenure, of being among the most com- 

 pletely indexed of any entomological publications. 



G. W. K. 



Tlie Lepidoptem of the British Islands: a Descriptive Account of the 

 Families, Genera, and Species indigenous to Great Britain and 

 Ireland, their Preparatory States, Habits, and Localities. By 

 Charles G. Barrett, P.E.S. Vol. vi., pp. 388. London: 

 Lovell Reeve & Co. 1900. 



In this volume consideration of the Heterocera is continued up to 

 the end of the Noctuina, and a commencement is made with the 

 Geometrina. The names of genera in the Noctuina are but very 

 little changed, and the only important alteration in the arrangement 

 is the introduction of the Sarrothripids, which family is placed between 

 the TrifidsB and the GonopteridaB. In his treatment of the Geometrina 

 our author adopts the classification used by Hampson in his ' Moths of 

 India,' consequently the family first dealt with is the Boarmidse, which, 

 in the present instalment, includes the genera Ourapteryx [Uropteryx] , 

 Anyerona, Piumia, Venilia, Gabera, Macaria. 



Among the Noctuina we note that Acontia Solaris, Catocala electa 

 ("casual migrant"), Char idea delphini, Cucullia abrotani, Plusia illus- 

 tris, P. ni, and Thalpochares paula are admitted as British ; whilst 

 Acontia catena, Bryophila algce, Calophasia linarim, C. platyptera, 

 Catocala elocata, Plusia aurifera, P. verticillata, and Hypena obsitalis 

 are regarded doubtfully, or at best as only accidental visitors. 



Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Col- 

 lection of the Oxford University Museum. Part I. — Sphinges and 

 Bombyces : by Col. C. Swinhoe. Part II. — Noctuina, Geome- 

 trina, and Pyralidina : by Col. C. Swinhoe. Pterophoridae and 

 Tineina : by the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsinghabi and John Hartley 

 DuRRANT. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1892 and 1900.) 



The entomological collection of the Oxford Museum is the most 

 important public collection in this country, after the British Museum, 

 and contains a great number of types of moths, described by Hope, 

 Westwood, Walker, and Moore. The whole collection has now been 

 thoroughly examined, and the types, as far as possible, identified ; 

 and we have the result, so far as regards the Eastern species, in the 

 two handsome volumes before us, each illustrated with eight coloured 

 plates, though, for some reason or other, those in the second volume 

 do not appear to us to be quite as good as those in the first. The book 

 cannot fail to be of great value to all entomologists who are interested 

 in foreign moths ; and we can only regret that it has not been made 

 complete by the addition of the African and American moths. 



We should add that the new species and genera which the authors 

 met with in the course of their work are fully described in its pages, 

 thus bringing the catalogue of this part of the Museum up to date. 



