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to prefer dry, sandy, or gravelly barren spots, or the sides of paths in 

 dry pastures or upland highways, frequently invading towns, and find- 

 ing the hottest corners for its gambols, so in Europe it selects sand- 

 hills and sand-dunes, sloping chalk-hills, and flowery wayside banks, 

 meadows, wood-ridings, heaths and moorlands, mountain pasturages, 

 and other innumerable different spots. In Britain it loves our open 

 chalk-hills in the southern and eastern counties, the limestone slopes 

 of the western and northern counties, the sandstone of the south- 

 western — e.g. the downs at Hailing (Ovenden), and at Freshwater 

 (Hawes), the sand-hills at Deal (Tutt), and near Findhorn (Mutch), 

 and is especially abundant on the dry Triassic sandstone area of the 

 central and northern parts of Nottingham (Goss) ; the heaths at New- 

 bury (Kirnber), the moorlands of the Western Highlands (Tutt), rough 

 stony ground edging the woods near Truro, and at Weston-super-Mare 

 (Whittaker) ; whilst fine bright examples occur in the isles of Bute 

 and the Great Cumbrae (Swinton)." And so for another couple 

 of pages, taking us through various localities — the Channel Islands, 

 Scandinavia, France, the Riviera, Germany, Switzerland, Northern 

 and Central Italy, Bulgaria, Syria, India. China, the Japanese Islands, 

 as well as Abyssinia, the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Pamirs. 

 All this is admirably described. 



We are glad to see that another volume, to contain the " hair- 

 streaks" and "blues," is in preparation, and will be published in 

 1907-8. The book will be the indispensable work of reference upon 

 the subject of the butterflies found in Britain. -p ^ 



Catalogue of British Orthoptera, Neuroptera, and Trichoptera. By the 

 late C. W. Dale, F.E.S. Revised and corrected. Colchester : 

 W. H. Harwood & Son. 1907. 

 Probably students and collectors of the British Orthoptera, Neuro- 

 ptera, and Trichoptera, though few enough still, are not quite so smali 

 a company as formerly was the case. The insects they are concerned 

 with are no doubt somewhat difficult to preserve and to prepare for the 

 cabinet, and when there do not make so fine a show as does a collection 

 of Lepidoptera. But these insects possess one merit which places 

 them in importance above all others — their antiquity. No scientific 

 entomologist can therefore afford to remain uninterested in these 

 orders, and we can with confidence recommend to his notice a cata- 

 logue of the British members of the orders, which Mr. W. H. Harwood 

 has just issued ; for one of the greatest helps to anyone working at a 

 group of any kind is a good reliable list of the members included 

 within its limits. Originally drawn up by the late Mr. C. W. Dale, 

 F.E.S., it has been revised and brought thoroughly up to date by 

 various entomologists working at the orders. Criticism is scarcely 

 needed, but we might say that as the Orthoptera are graded as to their 

 status in our fauna, the introduced and naturalized species, and the 

 occasional visitors might have been separated, their position on the 

 list being so widely different. One other cockroach, Blabera cubensis, 

 might have been added to the visitors, two having been accidentally 

 introduced into Oxford last year. The genus Auridium should, of 

 course, be Acridium. W T T 



