5048 Notices of New Books. 



There you have it — Sphinx Convolvuli ! Look, what a living glory, 

 its eyes like stars brought down for us to look into, and behold, we 

 can see nothing but light. But if you wish to see the other beauties 

 of your captive to-morrow, you must kill it: first stop its fluttering by 

 a pinch on the under side of the thorax, and then a dose of oxalic 

 acid on the point of a needle will put it hors du combat. It has lost 

 a little of its lustre by struggling in the net, as might have been 

 expected, the scales on the wings of all Lepidoptera being easily 

 rubbed off, but it is as good a specimen as is usually got in this way : 

 perfect ones are rarely obtained, except by rearing them from the 

 caterpillar, and such rare species as this are seldom found in their 

 early states." — p. 28. 



Having already expressed disappointment, it would be somewhat 

 inconsistent to wind up with the stereotyped recommendation of 

 good-humoured critics to " rush and buy ; " and yet such is our 

 recommendation : the work truly does less than justice to the author's 

 position as an entomologist; it is not self-reliant enough for one who 

 fills to admiration an arduous post in the rt World of Entomologists; 1 ' 

 but it is the very image of the author as a man ; a perfect and 

 pleasing photograph of himself: and we wait patiently for that day 

 when the entomologist, as well as the man, shall be thus fairly 

 pourtrayed by his own hand. In the mean time we must accept what 

 we can get, and we can assure those who are yet on the threshold of 

 the study that they will find our author the most agreeable of 

 instructors. 



J. G. 



Synonymic List of the British Species of Philhydrida, with Notices 

 of Localities, fyc. By the Rev. Hamlet Clark, M.A. 



(Continued from page 5008). 



Genus Heterocerus. 



1. H. marginatus, Fab. This very variable insect appears to be 

 generally distributed. Like its congeners it burrows in the mud, 

 and may be found in these situations both in salt-water and fresh- 

 water localities. 



2. EL obsoletus, Curt. Less abundant in the North than in the 

 London district. In profusion near Gravesend ; Southend; Lincoln, 

 on the banks of the Witham ; Northampton. 





