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Lepidoptera from near Leamington, including Lymantria monacha, L., 

 not uncommon, Boarmia roboraria, Schiff., Myelois cribrella, Hb., &c. 

 — Mr. L. Doncaster made an appeal for help in connection with the 

 Eoyal Society's enquiry into progressive melanism. — Mr. W. E. 

 Colling showed an unidentified dipterous larva, which had been sent 

 to him as destructive to currant bushes, but which he thought were 

 only accidentally associated with them. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a 

 beautiful lot of Pieridaa of the genus Delias, from New Guinea and the 

 Australian region, including several new species. — Colbran J. Wain- 

 wright, Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalana in the British Museum. Vol. VI. 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. Pp. i-xiv, 1-532. With 

 Atlas of twelve plates in colour. London : Printed by Order of 

 the Trustees. 1906. 



Eight years ago the first volume of this comprehensive and 

 elaborate work was reviewed in the 'Entomologist,' and vol. vi. is 

 now before us. Although entitled a Catalogue, each volume is not 

 simply a list of names and references, but practically a monograph of 

 the family or subfamily with which it is concerned. Every species 

 is described, and figured also where this has not been adequately 

 done before. 



In the present volume the Cucullianse, the third of the fifteen sub- 

 families into which Sir George Hampson divides the family Noctuidfe, 

 is dealt with. This subfamily, " characterised by its trifid neuration 

 of the hind wing combined with spineless tibiae and smooth eyes 

 surrounded by eye-lashes of bristle-like hairs," comprises 692 species 

 belonging to 111 genera. 



Associated with the key to genera (pp. 2-7) is a table showing the 

 Phylogeny of the Cucullianse. Following the diagnosis of each genus 

 is a key to the species belonging to that genus. 



Twenty-three genera comprise more than six species each, and the 

 largest of these are Cucullia, Schrank (101 sp.) ; Empusada, Hmpsn. 

 (12 sp.) ; Oncoenemis, Led. (57 sp.) ; Homohadena, Grote (12 sp.) ; 

 Gmptolitha, Hb. (48 sp.) ; Antitype, Hb. (20 sp.) ; Bryomima, Staud. 

 (12 sp.) ; Trichoridia, Hmpsn. (10 sp.) ; Conistra, Hb. (33 sp.); Ama- 

 thes, Hb. (30 sp.) ; and Cosmia, Ochs. (25 sp.). 



Thirty-six genera each include but a single species, and of these 

 the following are new: — Neogalea (t. braziliensis, sp. n.) ; Br achy galea 

 (t. leucorhabha, sp. n.) ; Cheligalea (t. scoparice, Dorfm.) ; Argyrogalea 

 (t. argentea, Hufn.); Argyromata (t. splendida, Cram.); Opsigalea 

 (t. ocellata, Walk.) ; Harpagophana (t. hiiaris, Staud.) ; Ammetopa 

 (t. coded, Oberth.) ; Protophana (t. cervina, H. Edw.) ; WiodochUena 

 (t. botonga, Feld.) ; Andesia (t. cenistis, sp. n.) ; Ectochela (t. canina, 

 Feld.) ; Homoncocnemis (t. fortis, Grote) ; Oopitype (t. pagoda,, Alph.) ; 

 Cajfristis (t. ferrogrisea, Hmpsn.); Drgotype (t. opina, Grote); Xyio- 

 type (t. capax, Grote); Neumichtis (t. tiijuncta, Walk.); Hypnotype 

 (t. placens, Walk.); Elvesia (t. diplostigma, Hmpsn.); Rhynchaglcea 

 (i. scitula, Butl.) ; Grammoscelis (t. leuconenra, sp. n.) ; Omphaloscelis 



