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now have a reasonable chance of naming some of those 

 beautiful insects with which most of us are more or less 

 acquainted. There may be those who would like to name 

 them in order more effectually to breath anathemas on them. 

 It is to be hoped that another volume of this work will be 

 issued before long. 



" Catalogue of British Coleoptera," by Professor Beareand 

 Mr. Donisthorpe. The coleopterists of Britain must have 

 eagerly looked forward to the issue of this catalogue, and 

 must now be grateful to the authors whose joint labours 

 have given them such an eminently useful, up-to-date work- 

 ing list. 



" Eleanor Ormerod, LL.D., Economic Entomologist, 

 Autobiography, and Correspondence," edited by Robert 

 Wallace. This contains, as Mr. Lucas writes (" Entom.," 

 vol.xxxvii,p. 2ig), a delightfully fresh autobiography, followed 

 by a biographical sketch by the editor, and a large amount of 

 correspondence. 



"The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland," by J. G. 

 Millais, F.Z.S., vol. i. This sumptuous work, when com- 

 pleted by the issue of vols, ii and iii, will be facile princeps of 

 any books ever written on this subject. The present volume 

 deals with the Bats, Insectivora, and Carnivora, as far as the 

 end of the seals. Some of the numerous and beautiful plates 

 are produced by the aid of the camera, but many of them are 

 reproductions of highly artistic pictures by the author. As 

 this work in its present form must really be looked on as an 

 edition de luxe, it is to be hoped that a cheaper edition may 

 subsequently be issued. 



Part X of Mr. Taylors' most excellent work, the " Mono- 

 graph of the Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British 

 Isles," was published in June. It deals with only four species 

 of slugs, but these are treated very thoroughly, except, perhaps, 

 in the accounts of their habits, which might have been ex- 

 tended. We have as yet only plates of Limax maxinius and 

 L. cinereo-niger, but hope soon to see the figures of the other 

 species. 



" Wayside and Woodland Trees," by Edward Step, F.L.S. 

 This is a delightful book to put in- one's pocket when on a 

 country ramble, or if read after returning, it will most cer- 

 tainly incite to further rambles, and the perusal of it will 

 surely increase even the tree-lover's love of trees. 



To the foreign as well as to the British lepidopterist, the 

 most important work of the year is Volume IV of Mr. Tutt's 

 " British Lepidoptera " ; for although this volume only deals 



