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pacher described four species in their Iter per Poseganam, but Tobias Koy appears 

 as the first Entomologist who accurately and diligently studied the Hemiptera of 

 Hungary : he published in 1800 a list of eighty-six species, entitled, " Alphabitisches 

 Verzeichniss meiner Insecten-Sammlung," of which all except seven were collected 

 in the neighbourhood of Buda Pest ; from this date the list has gradually been built 

 up by various Entomologists, and now, thanks to the indefatigable labours of the 

 present author, appears as probably the most perfect national list on record, and a 

 model for lists of a similar nature. An excellent map is given, dividing the country 

 into eight regions, Centralis, Pannonica, Septentr. occidentalis, Septentr. orientalis, 

 Transylvanica, Banatica, Croatiea, and Adriatiea. The author says that the greater 

 part of the species are those generally distributed throughout the Palaeartic Region, 

 and that of these the majority are of the Mediterranean type. Some, however, have 

 crept in from warmer and more southern climes, others from the East, whilst some 

 of the species found quite in ifforthern Europe occur even in the tolerably hot parts 

 of the country. After the historical, &c., sketch, a list of the literature bearing on 

 the Hemiptera of Hungary is given, and then follows a systematic list of species, 

 with notes of the distribution of each in the eight regions. There are enumerated 

 814 Heteroptera, 726 Homoptera, and 103 Aptera. — E. S. 



Insect Lives, as told by themselves : by Edward Simpson. Pp. 128, small 

 Svo, with 23 illustrations. London : The Religious Tract Society, 1898 (but not 

 dated). 



Of this class of books there is no end. This purports to consist of a series of 

 autobiographies of some of our common insects, and is pleasantly written, yet 

 evidently compiled: the "author " has managed to escape very serious errors, which 

 is more than can be said for many similar works. The best feature consists in the 

 happily chosen headings ; but in one case at least, " A Home under Water," the 

 depth has been miscalculated, and has resulted in a hopeless confusion of nomen- 

 clature. The chapter devoted to " An Unwelcome Gruest " {Stylops) is lamentably 

 incomplete. The illustrations are fair, so far as they go : we need scarcely add that 

 we recognise them as old friends. The marvel to us is who buys books of this 

 nature ; yet we suppose they serve some useful purpose, and pay, otherwise they 

 would not be written. 



Insects : foes and friends : by W. Egmont Kikby, M.D., with preface by 

 W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S. Pp. 138, 12mo, with 32 chromo-lith. plates. London : 

 S. W. Partridge and Co., 1898. 



This book is a small manual of Economic Entomology, tolerably well illustrated. 

 The position held by the writer of the preface should be a guarantee as to accuracy ; 

 but there is no editorial note explaining that the " Yine Tortrix " {Eupaecilia 

 amhiguella) does not feed on vine in this country. It is stated that the work is an 

 English adaptation of a little book that " has had a large circulation in Grermany," 

 but what little book is not mentioned. We venture to suggest that the title of 

 the original was " Insektenbiichlein ;" that the author was H. Schiitte ; and that it 

 was published at Stuttgart in 1897. Those who require a small elementary pocket 

 manual of Economic Entomology at a price that is only nominal will find this 

 useful. 



