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compare it with any other species, and gives as locality 
“« Africa.” He states it is figured in his Hesp. t. 857, which 
has never been published, and is now lost. 
The description agrees, so far as it goes, with DL. levubu, 
and in the British Museum it is placed as a synonym of that 
species, with which I thoroughly agree. Dr. Holland does 
not mention it in his Revision of the African Hesperiidee 
(P. Z. S. 1896). Dr. Trimen (P. Z. 8. 1891) writes of 
specimens of L. levubu from South-west Africa as having the 
black on the margins and nervules more developed than those 
from more southern tracts. 
There is also a specimen in the Oxford Museum from the 
Loangwa Valley, Mushinga Mountains, British Central 
Africa, collected in August by Mr. C. H. Pemberton, and 
presented by Mr. C. V. A. Peel, which agrees exactly with 
the specimen in the same museum captured by the late 
F. Oates in Matabele Land in March, and referred to by West- 
wood in Oates’s ‘ Matabele Land’ (London, 1881, p. 335). 
Rebel and Rogenhofer give the expanse of ZL. amneris as 
35 mm., while Plétz gives that of L. lactea as 19 mm. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
J. H. Fazre. Souvenirs Entomologiques (Huitiime Série): Etudes 
sur UInstinct et les Meurs des Insectes. 8vo. Paris, 1903. 
Pp. 379. 
Every.few years this indefatigable observer of insect-life enriches 
our entomological libraries with interesting information, at first 
hand, on the habits and metamorphoses of various insects; but it is 
only a short time since the first of his eight volumes was trans- 
lated into English under the auspices of Dr. D. Sharp and Mr. F. 
Merrifield. We do not know if the series is to be continued in 
English, but the latest volume of the original shows no falling off 
either in the interest of the author’s observations, orin the vivacious 
and agreeable French sentimentality of the diction, which reminds 
us of Alphonse Karr, and which forms so great a contrast to the 
humorous style of some of our English writers on similar subjects 
—Mr. E. H. Aitken, for example. So does the difference in 
national character show itself even in the style of popular books 
on natural history. 
In his latest volume M. Fabre introduces us to Rose-Beetles ; 
the beetles which destroy peas and beans; Pentatomas and Masked 
Bugs; Aphides and their enemies; wild bees (Halictus); carrion- 
flies and beetles; wasps and Volucelle; and, finally, to various spiders 
whose nests are compared with those of the “ Mésange Penduline ” 
(Penduline Titmouse). 
There are some text-illustrations, chiefly representing eges, 
cocoons, and nests, many of very elegant form, among the most 
curious being the eggs of Pentatomide on p, 69. 
