186 ; THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RECORD. 
The features that are most accessible to us are the excellent text 
figures, and the fairly inclusive bibliographical lists. There are, also, 
glossaries, or almost dictionaries, of names of parts, such as that 
referring to antenne (p. 50), the thorax (p. 62), legs, wings and their 
attachments, the genitalia (p. 118) running to 23 pages and involving 
descriptions of the male and female appendages. The author adopts 
Peytoureau’s view (for the moment still apparently the orthodox one) - 
that the dorsum of the ninth abdominal segment is that of the eighth, 
and that the terminal segment is the ninth and tenth combined. 
There follow twenty-five pages of detailed bibliography, showing 
progress of research on these organs, a dozen on the synonymy of the 
names of the different structures, followed by a fuller but less detailed 
bibliography for some 10 pages. 
The text figures are excellent, the majority are original, and appa- 
rently from the author's own drawings, usually under the microscope ; 
the source of the remainder is in every case acknowledged. 
The work reminds us of Packard’s Text Book or Berlese’s Gli 
Insetti, but it refers of course to the Lepidoptera only, and not to the 
whole class of insects, it 1s consequently in many directions more 
detailed. 
We have no English work on quite the same lines, and it deserves 
the attention of English entomologists even though they cannot read 
it.—T.A.C. 
Lepipoprerotocy.*—Monsieur C. Oberthitir brings out the eleventh 
fasciculus of the Lépidopteroloyie in a volume of text and one of fifty- 
nine plates. In these plates, M. Oberthtr told us that M. Culot sur- 
passed himself. But for a difficulty in accepting the impossible, we 
should be in hearty agreement on this point. Whilst enjoying these 
beautifully engraved and coloured plates, we should wish to associate 
ourselves with M. Oberthir in his expressions of regret at the loss of 
M. Millo, Monsieur Culot’s son-in-law, killed in the Argonne last 
December, regrets that the genius of the French language, of which he 
has so accomplished a command, enable M. Oberthiir to express with a 
respect and sympathy that we can equally feel, but cannot so readily 
put into words. 
The eight plates of Adgeriids are unfortunately for the present 
without text, M. Fd. Le Cerf, who had undertaken to present it, having 
been prevented doing so, as a result of the war, but promises it for a 
later volume. Two species are figured as new, Chamaesphecta powelli 
and ('. micra, and a number of others, more or less recently published 
by M. Le Cerf and by M. Oberthiir. The variation of some of the species 
is greater than is generally realised, of which Pyropteron doryliformis is 
a striking example, five named forms being figured, and of these some 
present considerable variation. 
There are three plates of forms of Chelonia from Algeria, two of 
Lemonia, one of Lasiocampa, one of Lymantria, and others. 
In the explanation of plate 323, Chelonia oberthiiri, and 328, 
Lemonia philopalus, we see that the life-histories of these species are 
to appear in Fasciculus xiii. We rejoice at this evidence that the 
depression of health and spirits produced by the war, and finding ex- 
pression in the preface to the last Fasc. (x.) in a fear that little further 
* Lépidoptérologie Comparée, Fasc. xi., Rennes, April, 1916. 
