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BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 
The | Lepidoptera | of the A British Islands | A Descriptive Account of the 
Families, Genera, and | Species Indigenous to Great Britain an 
I d, their  Bitacsoey ste aes | Habits, and Localities | By Charles 
Ge pare Pes. |. . «| Vol It | “a sia | Sphinges, re Be s | 
London | L. heave and Ca. ie uy . | 1895. [8vo. cloth, 372 p 
THERE is but little to add to what we * the opportunity ig saying 
in our review of the first volume. The present one is quite equal to 
it in every respect, dealing with a similar attractive series of con- 
spicuous and handsome species, the life-histories of which are of very 
considerable interest. The account of each species is full and well- 
rounded, the only omission of serious consequence being the absence 
of synonymy, of which it would perhaps have been desirable to give 
so much as would show the dates of the earliest names, as well as 
the appellations used in the various English and one or two of the 
leading foreign works on Lepidoptera. The hook is handsomely 
and attractively got up, and quite worthy of the reputation achieved 
by its publishers. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
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ouble rin deat to Anim 
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~~ — er special number is that of § Spee covert for july, in which the 
story of the Challenger Expedition and its publications is told in a series of short 
ances A the authors of the various ineaudlcs araeel ves—a most interesting 
A most excellent piece of bibli ee work lies — us in Mr. W. E. 
Hoyle’s Catalogue of ust hay e of the Manchester Mus The os ‘and 
pamphlets that contains are here ified od 
a thoroughly scientific Hatiend the ‘ deci system’ of Prof. Melvill Dewey, whic 
is the only system yet ee whereby i abitions * to a library can be incor Lene 
ated in their proper place without the necessity of altering the pr eit allotted to 
the various books. € importance of pamphlets—so often overlooked—is is fully 
erloo 
pane ey by Mr. a fs whose work is singularly free from the ‘faults and 
errors’ to which he alludes ho ie introduction, and we have not often seen 
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