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the list presents identifications with forms from a much more dis- 

 tant region. About ten years ago Professor E. Forbes described 

 a beautiful series of fossils from Southern India. The facies of 

 this Fauna was characteristically cretaceous : of thirty-five species 

 of Cephalopods, three-fourths were found to be very closely allied 

 to species from the Neocomian beds of the department of the Var ; 

 many other genera of Mollusks presented a like result. In addition 

 to these species a close and critical comparison satisfied Professor 

 Forbes that there were twelve forms which could not be dis- 

 tinguished from well-known European ones : of these some were 

 limited to the south of France, and some ranged into our own 

 area. M. d'Archiac, whose caution in stating results is well 

 known, has added as many as five or six to this list — making about 

 ten per cent. — a very remarkable result when the difference in 

 latitude, amounting to 30°, is taken into consideration. 



The Entomologist's Annual for 1855, comprising Notices of 

 the new British Insects detected in 1854. Edited by H. 

 T. Stainton, Author of the " Entomologist's Companion." 

 London : John Van Voorst. 1855. 



The idea of an Entomologist's Annual is a good one ; and we 

 hail with satisfaction the attempt which has been made by Mr 

 Stainton and his able coadjutors, Mr Smith and Mr Janson. At 

 the same time, we will not receive this from their hands as more 

 than a preliminary essay towards the production of such a work. 

 Our notion of what an Entomologist's Annual ought to be goes 

 far beyond what Mr Stainton sets before him. He tells us that 

 his object has been " to give systematically notices of all the new 

 species found in this country in the past year, and at the same 

 time to intimate which rare species had been taken in any plenty." 

 The latter purpose has not been attempted this year from want of 

 space, but the former has certainly been ably accomplished. 



Mr Stainton records no less than 173 species of Lepidoptera as 

 detected in Britain since the publication of Stephen's Illustrations 

 of British Entomology in 1835, of which 11 are species hitherto 

 uiulcscribed, and of which Mr Stainton has given good descrip- 

 tions, and in one or two instances figures. He might have added 

 15 Tortricina to his list, had he taken all those enumerated by 

 Stephens in his Museum Catalogue as British species ; but he has 

 most properly abstained from doing so, on the ground that he has 

 no satisfactory information regarding them, reserving to himself 

 to introduce them in subsequent years, should they hereafter 

 prove distinct. Some fine species are recorded in the list, such as 

 Authroccra Minos, SpaeloLts Vallcaiaca, Centra bicuspis, &c. 



