REVIEWS. 



THE BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 



An Account of the British Hferacia. By W. R. LrNTON, Vicar 

 of Shirley, Derby. Pp. 8 + 96. West, Newman & Co. 1905. 4?, net. 



The publication of Mr. lyiuton's account of the British Hawk weeds 

 will be widely welcomed, as affording a key to this perplexing genus, 

 brought up to the present time. The book is concise and practical in 

 plan. Something akin to a shudder passes over us on noting that the 

 list of "species" described reaches 124, omitting a number of sub-species 

 and varieties. As in the case of so many English books dealing with 

 distribution in Great Britain and Ireland, we note the incomplete 

 acknowledgment that is given to Irish records. For instance, the widely 

 distributed H. ajiqlzaan would appear from the notes given to be confined 

 to west Ireland, H. argenteuyn to Kerry, H. sciophilum to Dublin, H, 

 corymbosiim and H. auratiim to Antrim ; yet most of the omitted records 

 rest on good recent authority, such as that of F. J. Hanbury or E. F. 

 Linton. Similarly, H. rivale, H. casitwi, H. gothicum and a few others, do 

 not appear as found in Ireland at all. It may be that Mr. Linton has 

 only included plants which he has personally examined ; but if so it 

 would be well that this were stated. Names new to the Irish list (at 

 least as " species ") are furnished by H. pachyphyllum (Antrim), H. crebridens 

 (Clare), H. Scullyi (Dr. Scully's Kerry former H. boreaW), and 

 stictophylhwi (Donegal). 



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FOR MOTH-HUNTERS. 



Practical Hints for the Field Lepldopterlst. ByJ. W. Tutt. 

 Part III. Pp. 166. London : Eliot Stock, 1905. Price (interleaved), 

 65-. net. 



Like all Mr. Tutt's writings this small volume contains a mine of infor- 

 mation for the earnest worker among the Lepidoptera. In his introduc- 

 tory remarks the author points out how effectually the field naturalist 

 can help the studies of the embyologist and morphologist, and how readily 

 the collector can and should himself turn to the solution of some pro- 

 blem of structure or bionomics. That we have here no ordinary moth- 

 hunter's guide can be seen from the instructions for the preservation and 

 photography of eggs (illustrated by several attractive plates), and from 

 the brief but accurate accounts of the external characters of larva and 

 pupa. The bulk of the volume is devoted to a calendar of the leading 

 events in the lepidopterological year, the principal insects likely to 

 occur in any stage of their life- history being catalogued under their 

 " guperfamili^s/' which are ip turn arranged under the months. 



a, H, c, 



