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be by this time well known to all entomologists. We can only wish 

 him good speed in the continuation of his great work, and notice the 

 fact that in subsequent volumes there will be some little departure 

 from the plan hitherto adopted. The preceding volumes have often 

 been seriously delayed by the difficiilty of making up a set of his- 

 tories of twenty-four species belonging to one or at most two genera ; 

 and this difficulty Mr. Staiuton finds increasing upon him now that 

 a considerable proportion of the species in some of the more exten- 

 sive gc]iera have been described and illustrated. In one instance, 

 he tells us, a volume was kept waiting more than a year for the life- 

 history of a single species. Under these circumstances he has re- 

 solved (we think judiciously) to give up the attempt to fill each volume 

 with species of the same genus. We hope that he may receive the 

 encouragement of a heavy subscription list. 



The Tineina of Syria mid Asia Minor. By H. T. Stainton, F.L.S. 

 8vo, London : Van Voorst. 1867. 



In the preface to the volume just noticed Mi-. 8tainton announces 

 his intention of publishing a series of works upon the Tineina of 

 various districts. The first of these, published early last year, is the 

 little volume now before us, on the Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor ; 

 those in contemplation or in progress are on the members of the 

 same beautiful group of Lepidoptera inhabiting Scandinavia, the 

 Alps, and Southern Europe. 



The inducement to the production of the present work was fur- 

 nished by a collection of Microlepidoptera found in Palestine in 1865 

 by the Rev. 0. Pickard Cambridge, and submitted to Mr. Slainton 

 fn- identification and description. This led him to bring together all 

 the papers published on the Tineina of western Asia, and to procure 

 the loan of many of the type specimens ; and in this volume we have 

 the results of his investigations. It appears that, previou sly to Mr. 

 Cambridge's visit, eleven collections containing species of Tineina had 

 been made in Syria and Asia IMinor by German travellers ; and no- 

 tices of these, with descri])tions of new species, were published in 

 various periodicals by MM. ZeUer, Mann, and Lederer. Mr. Staiuton 

 has here reproduced the Hsts of species, and reprinted (in the original 

 German) the descriptions of new forms, so as to bring into a focus, 

 as it were, all the specially Levantine literature of the Tineina. To 

 these he adds a catalogue of the species and descriptions of the new 

 forms collected by Mr. Cambridge, descriptions of many of the species 

 previously characterized by the above-mentioned authors, and of 

 some other new species obtained from various sources. The number 

 of species is 389, which are brought together in a table at the end 

 of the book, showing, in parallel columns, the expeditions in which 

 they were collected, with indications of their comparative abundance 

 or rarity in the different localities. 



Although unpretending in its form, this little work is one that 

 must have taken no small labour in its preparation, and its import- 

 ance is not to be measured by its bulk. In the present aspect of 



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