394 BihUograpJiical Notices. 



gives a portion of Solsky's third part, which was not published 

 at the time of that author's death. 



The tables on Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera are particularly full, 

 and to each species is added its distribution in other countries and 

 its vertical distribution in Turkestan. M. Alpheraky, of Taganrog, 

 has furnished Dr. Lansdell with a list of 377 species of Lepidoptera 

 he captured in the Kuldja valley, giving the altitude at which each 

 species was taken and the month of capture. The remaining lists 

 contain Neuroptera, Orthoptera, and Vermes, 



It should be added that these lists respectively have been revised 

 for the most part by their authors, or, rather, those of them who 

 are liviug ; and Madame Pedchenko, who edited so many of her 

 husband's works after his lamented death, has also revised' the tables 

 in their English dress. 



A separate appendix is devoted to the flora of Russian Turkestan, 

 and comprises 1234 plants ; whilst a third consists of a most valuable 

 bibliography of 700 publications on that region in English, French, 

 German, Russian, and other languages. 



Dr. Lansdell has been too successful a traveller to resist long the 

 temptation of invading other regions of the east. We understand 

 that the last sheet of his work had hardly been passed through the 

 press when he started again for Asia Minor ; and we have no doubt 

 that this new journey wiU contribute not only to our information, 

 but also to our collections. 



Our Insect Enemies. By Theodoee "Wood. Small 8vo. London : 

 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1885. 



Me. Wood has followed up his little book on ' Our Insect Allies,' 

 which we noticed just a year ago, with a similar volume on injurious 

 insects. The view of the real nature of the relations of insects, 

 whether injurious or beneficial, to man, which we indicated as the 

 guiding principle of the author in discussing these matters, is still 

 further developed in his present work, in which he describes the 

 structure and natural history of a. select few of those insects whose 

 existence acquires prominence by the mischief they cause to us. 

 The little histories are told in a pleasant style, and in his two books 

 the author has certainly furnished an excellent popular contribution 

 to entomological literature, and one which may serve as a valuable 

 guide in the first steps to a knowledge of the economy of the insect 

 world. The principal mistake he has fallen into is his devoting 

 nearly a quarter of his present volume to the natural history of the 

 Aphides, a subject which, although most interesting to the ento- 

 mologist, can hardly have its full importance realized by the beginner, 

 while its occupying so much space has evidently led to some other 

 sections of the work being somewhat starved. The volume is 

 illustrated with a good many woodcuts, mostly of pretty good 

 quality. 



