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species of autumn lepidoptera from the North of Ireland, including a 

 nicely varied series of Cidaria truncata, several being the var. cen- 

 tumnotata. All the members present reported a very poor season 

 from a collector's point of view. — Wm. Mansbeidge, Hon. Sec. 



EECENT LITERATURE. 



Common British Moths. By A. M. Stewart. London : Adam & 

 Charles Black. 1913. Pp. viii, 1-88. Sixteen plates. 



This little book is a worthy companion-volume to the ' British 

 Butterflies ' by the same author, already noticed in the ' Entomolo- 

 gist ' for 1912, p. 212. The eight coloured plates are really of most 

 excellent workmanship, one is inclined to think some of the best ever 

 produced, certainly in entomological literature. They are splendidly 

 clear, and marvellously accurate in colour. They contain figures of 

 some two hundred species, all those mentioned in the text in fact, 

 and though only three-fourths natural size it should be quite im- 

 possible to identify wrongly any of the species figured. The black- 

 and-white plates of preserved larvae, &c., have been well chosen, the 

 text is obviously the work of a practical entomologist, and the 

 species described form a very excellent representative collection of 

 the commoner British moths, amongst them, one is pleased to note, 

 some of the " Micros " being given a place. Errors of any kind 

 seem exceedingly few% although it is difficult to understand how the 

 specimen of Boarvna repandata var. conversaria, figured on Plate 15, 

 came to be labelled " B. gemmaria var. perfiwiaria," probably by acci- 

 dent. The book is absolutely ideal for the young beginner. 



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Transactions of the City of London Entomological and Natural 

 History Society for the year 1911. Pp. 32. Published by the 

 Society, The London Institution, Finsbury Circus, 1912. 



We have received a copy of the above Society's ' Transactions ' 

 for 1911. Apart from the notes in the President's address upon the 

 season's collecting and upon the scarcity of some insects formerly so 

 common in their haunts, there is a short but quite interesting paper 

 by Mr. Tautz upon the species of the genus Cosmia (Calynmia). 

 This includes a record of C. pyralina from Middlesex (Pinner), a 

 species which the author states had not been previously recorded, so 

 far as he knew, from that county, but here he is in error, as the species 

 is pretty generally known to inhabit Middlesex, and was recorded 

 from Mill Hill over thirty years ago. 



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