32 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



the same time. Mr. Barrett referred to the few recorded captures of X. 

 zinckenii in this country. 



Mr. R. W. Lloyd exhibited male and female specimens of Amara alpina 

 from Garvell, Perthshire. 



Colonel Swinhoe stated that he had, during the past summer, captured 

 four specimens of Pieris daplidice at Deal. They were worn and had 

 probably been blown over from France. Mr. Tutt had collected at Deal 

 for many years, but had never met with Pieris daplidice there. 



Mr. Tutt read a paper, communicated by Prof. A. R. Grote, entitled 

 " Notes on the genus Cidaria" 



Dr. T. A. Chapman read a paper entitled " Notes on Pupae : Orneodes, 

 Epermenia, Chrysocorys, and Pteropliorus." Lord Walsingham, Mr. Bland- 

 ford, and Mr. Tutt took part in the discussion which ensued. — H. Goss and 

 W. W. Fowlee, Hon. Secretaries. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 



Sport on the Pamirs and the Turkistan Steppes. By Major C. S. 

 Cumberland. With Frontispiece and Map. 8vo, pp. i — x, 

 1—278. London: Blackwood & Sons. 1895. 

 In this very interesting volume we have an account of an 

 expedition which the author, in 1889, planned and carried out 

 from India into Kashmir, Chinese Turkestan, the Pamirs, and 

 Asia Minor. At that time comparatively little was known of the 

 particular regions visited by him, and not much interest was 

 taken in them; but subsequent Russian claims and expeditions 

 to our frontiers beyond Gilgit brought these countries more 

 prominently under notice. The author having travelled over a 

 greater area than that described by other explorers, and having 

 frequently left the main caravan routes to hunt over mountains 

 not generally visited, he very wisely, as we think, decided to 

 publish the results of his experience. A good route map shows 

 the course of his travels, and the book abounds with incident 

 attractive alike to naturalists and sportsmen, to say nothing of 

 the valuable details which are given concerning the physical 

 geography of the countries explored. Major Cumberland's chief 

 ambition, it would seem, was to find the Ovis Poll in its native 

 haunts, and obtain with his own rifle some typical heads and 

 horns of this magnificent wild sheep, which has been named in 

 honour of Marco Polo. His description of the wild snow-clad 



