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secretary (Mr. Prest) exhibited a 

 fine-bred series of C. Sagittata, bred 

 from larvae taken last year in Cam- 

 bridgeshire : 0. Quadrifasciaria, P. 

 Boborella, bred, E. Isogrammata, 

 bred from larvse taken at Monk's 

 Wood, near Huntingdon ; H. Dyso- 

 dea, from larvse taken at St. Ives ; 

 E. Valerianata, bred from larvse 

 taken near York ; and D. Costana, 

 bred from larvse taken last month 

 during the excursion to Gormire. 

 After some discussion, an excursion 

 was fixed for the Tuesday following 

 (July 23rd) to Sherburn, for Ca- 

 wood Woods. 



" The North Staffordshire 

 Naturalist Field Club's Annual 

 Addresses, Papers, Etc," July, 

 1875. Price 5s. Published by 

 William Timmis, Hanley. — This 

 book, as its title would suggest, is 

 a compilation of selected papers, 

 with the annual addresses of the 

 Presidents read at various meetings, 

 and excursions of the North Staf- 

 fordshire Field Club during the 

 last five years. The Society is a 

 large and flourishing one, and the 

 book before us does it great credit. 

 The papers are evidently carefully 

 selected and admirably compiled. 

 At the end of the book is a capital 

 list of the Macro - lepidoptera 

 observed in North Staffordshire by 

 members of the Club, compiled by 

 its energetic secretary, the Rev. 

 Thos. W. Daltry, M.A., F.L.S., 

 which shows North Staffordshire to 

 be a rich district in this branch of 

 Entomology. We can cordially 

 recommend the book to our readers. 



^'Merrin's Lepidopterists* 

 Calendar. 2nd Edition, July, 

 1875. Gloucester : Herbert Mars- 

 den, Regent-st. Price 3s. 6d. — 

 We have not had time to make 

 more than a very superficial exami- 

 nation of this book, but have seen 

 sufficient to convince us that it is a 

 great improvement on the 1st 

 Edition. Under each month of 

 the year are given the species (both 

 Macro and Micro-lepidoptera) as 

 they appear as ova, larvse, pupse, 

 and imagos, with the plants, &c., 

 upon which they may be found, so 

 far as is known up to the present 

 time. The Work will be a useful 

 one, especially to those who are 

 just beginning the study of the 

 Lepidoptera ; and although, in a 

 tabulated Work of this kind, it 

 would be almost impossible to 

 avoid an occasional inaccuracy, we 

 can well afibrd to look over them, 

 where so much of good is to be 

 found. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, Hon. 

 Sec. of the Leeds Naturalists' 

 Society, offers the following : — "I 

 would suggest that you should have 

 a diary, on the cover, of the 

 meetings and excursions of York- 

 shire Societies, similar to the one 

 now given in ' ' Nature. ' ' — [We shall 

 only be too glad to carry out this 

 suggestion, and shall be obliged if 

 the secretaries of such Societies 

 will furnish us with the requisite 

 information for it, as early as 

 possible. — Eds. Nat.'] 



