422 BOTANY. 
Zygenide and Bombycidx, and now we have an admirably pre- 
pared list of the next extensive family, the Noctuide. No other 
list has been published since the imperfect one contained in Dr. 
Morris’ Catalogue of our Lepidoptera published by the Smithsonian 
Institution in 1860. esd 
The species enumerated by Mr. Grote amount to 815, belonging 
to 282 genera, including the Deltoids (Hypena and allies) which — 
the author, following Lederer, takes out of the Pyralide. Though 
it is not stated in the preface, the list is evidently restricted to 
that part of the continent north of the West Indies and Mexico. 
The most important synonyms are given, with an index to the 
genera. The appendix contains a number of new genera and: 
species, illustrated in part by an excellent plate. The distribution 
of the genera is given ; we wish that the localities of all the species 
separately could have been added. 
SA am ee e A ATA 
BOTANY. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION or THe Cupurireræ.—This large 
family, including the chestnuts, oaks, and beeches, since it 18 
the earliest geologically of the dicotyledonous plants, affords much 
direction, by A. S. Orsted, in which the morphology, classifica 
tion and geographical distribution of the family, are trea 
with the generally received law, that the more the classi 
a family rests on characteristics which indicate a real re 
the clearer it appears, that each subdivision has its owD centre 
distribution, and further that the greater the differences of a 
ganization between the subdivisions, the greater the geograp™" 
distances between these centres. Thus the chestnuts, oaks ae 
beeches, constituting the three groups of this family, afford bes 
principal centres of distribution, and cover three large, 
separated geographical regions; the chestnuts having their í 
in the Malay islands, the oaks in Mexico, and the beeches 10 =i 
America. The chestnut group, which is sharply separat 
the other groups, also has its own peculiar, tolerably well 
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