360 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



enumerated in the great catalogue of Palsearctic Lepidoptera 

 published by Staudinger and Eebel in 1901. His older work 

 has also been completely revised, and the few species found in 

 Madeira and the Canary Islands, but not met with on the Con- 

 tinent of Europe, have also been included. Mr. Kirby has thus 

 provided a most useful and beautifully illustrated work for con- 

 tinental tourists, and those who pass the winter in the Atlantic 

 islands, and being written in our own language, and provided 

 with so many excellent figures, is likely to prove a standard work 

 on the subject for many years to come. 



Although the book is intended to be a popular one, and not 

 beyond the intellectual capacity of the ordinary reader, and is, 

 as far as possible, free from scientific technicalities, it has still 

 avoided the offence of being only composed for the " man in the 

 street." The lepidopterist will find many references to descrip- 

 tions of larvae which are little known or have been generally over- 

 looked, for our author is a well-known entomological bibliophile, 

 and is particularly at home in the literature of his subject, both 

 in its modern and more ancient aspects. 



