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figures of many of the more interesting European species in addition ; 

 while the letterpress, which seems to have been carefully compiled, 

 includes full descriptions of all the British and most of the Central 

 European species in addition. The introduction contains the usual 

 information on structure, transformations, collecting, and rearing, and 

 is illustrated by several woodcuts. We notice that this handsome 

 volume is entirely printed, illustrated, and bound in Bavaria ; and, 

 although this is accounted for iu the present case by its being issued 

 by a German firm, we would ask, how is it that so many coloured 

 illustrations come from Germany ? Is the difficulty in the price or the 

 quality of English work ? 



The Label List of British Lepidoptera. Compiled, after * A Handbook of 

 British Lepidoptera,' by Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S., 

 &c. London : Watkins & Doncaster, 36, Strand, W.C. 1890. 



When presented in the form of a List, the revolutionary character 

 of the new classification of Lepidoptera, proposed by Mr. Meyrick in 

 his 'Handbook of British Lepidoptera ' (noticed Entom. xxviii. 318), 

 stands out with startling prominence. Old familiar tribal headings, such 

 as Sphinges, Bombyces, Noctuae, and Geometrae, have disappeared, and 

 in their place we have Caradrinina, Notodontina, and Lasiocampina. 

 The species hitherto arranged under the former are curiously divided 

 and redistributed among the latter. 



Caradrinina, which is the first division in the new classification, 

 comprises four families, i.e. ArctiadaB, Caradrinid«, Plusiadae, and 

 Ocneriadse. The first of these families embraces the NycteolidaB, 

 Nolidse, Lithosiid^, Eucheliidae, and Cheloniidae, of the old arrange- 

 ment. The second consists of the bulk of the old style Noctuae. The 

 third comprises Gonopteridae and Plusiidae, together with the Acon- 

 tiidae, and other families of the old style, up to and including the 

 Toxocampidas, and also the species generally referred to as Deltoids. 

 The fourth includes our old friends the Liparidae under a new name, 

 and transferred to a new position. 



Notodontina, the second division, is made up of the Geometrae, 

 Cymatophorid*, Sphingid^, Notodontidae, and Saturniidae (old style). 

 The Geometrae are placed in very different sequence to that we have 

 been so long accustomed to ; a large number of familiar generic names 

 have disappeared, and many of Hiibner's have been introduced. 



In the third division — Lasiocampina — we have the Drepanidae, 

 Endromididae, and Lasiocampidae. Then follows Papilionina, the 

 order of families being — Nymphalidae, Satyridag, Erycinidae, Lycaenidae, 

 Pieridae, Papilionidae, and Hesperiadae. 



Cossidae (except Cossus, which becomes changed into Trypanus, and 

 is the sole representative of a family placed at the end of the Tortri- 

 cina), together with Zygaenidae, Cochliopodidae, and Psyche (old style), 

 comprise the sixth division — PsYcmNA — following Pyraladina. 



The Hepialidae are grouped with Micropterygidae in tlie ninth, and 

 last, division — Micropterygina. 



In many respects this new arrangement is certainly a distinct im- 

 provement on the old, but as there are rumours that still other new 

 systems of classification are soon to be introduced to our notice, it may 

 be as well to await these before we decide to rearrange our collections. 



