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NOTES — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Xanthia aurago and Euperia fulvago in the Huddersfield 

 District. — Mr. B. Morley reports two very interesting- additions to our 

 local list of lepidoptera, in Xanthia aurago and Euperia fulvago ; several of 

 the former in a beech wood, and two of the latter in Deffer Wood, all near 

 Skelmanthorpe, during- the past season.— Geo. T. Porritt, Crosland Hall, 

 near Huddersfield, 26th November 1900. 



Psyche opacella, a Lepidopteron new to Yorkshire.- Recently 

 Mr. Georg-e Rose brought me for examination a large Psyche ' case ' which 

 he found some weeks ago in the trunk of a tree in the wood near 

 Dunford Bridge Railway Station, and which proves to be Psyche opacella, 

 a species quite new to the county of York. It is a very interesting insect, 

 and formed the subject of a paper read by Dr. T. A. Chapman before the 

 Entomological Society of London, on 6th June last, and which paper, 

 together with a plate illustrating the species, appears in the part recently 

 issued (October 1900) of the Transactions of that society. — G. T. Porritt, 

 Crosland Hall, near Huddersfield, 26th November 1900. 



BOOK NOTICE. 

 The Victoria History of the Counties of England Entomology. 



— This history is, as our readers probably know, intended to deal in 

 an exhaustive manner, with each county of England separately; and 

 the first county to appear is Hampshire. We have received the Entomo- 

 logical portion, and from it are able to judge somewhat as to the way in 

 w r hich this new and immense work is to be published. It is clear at once 

 that it is to be done under careful editorship, in good style, on large thick 

 paper, and with excellent type. The Entomology is edited by Mr. Herbert 

 Goss, well-known as for many years Secretary to the Entomological 

 Society of London, and we heartily congratulate Air. Goss on the result of 

 his work ; and no less so the Publishers (Messrs. A. Constable & Co.) on 

 securing so able an editor. If the lepidoptera of each county could be done 

 as well as this, we should have, when the 'Victoria History' is completed, 

 a complete set of county lists by competent authorities. But it is just here 

 where we see there may be future danger. There are many counties 

 where we fear it will be impossible to find sufficiently competent persons to 

 do the work satisfactorily; and, if not, we have no hesitation in saying that 

 it will be far better to leave out lists for such counties altogether than risk 

 the publication of inaccurate and misleading ones. To return to the part 

 before us, Mr. Goss has not only done his own part of the work exceedingly 

 well, but has fortunately also been able to secure the co-operation of some 

 of the best specialists in his own and most of the other branches of 

 Entomology. As might have been expected in the county which contains 

 perhaps the best known and most universally worked locality in Britain — 

 the New Forest — ihe lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera are especially 

 interesting and full ; and probably many years will elapse before that of the 

 Lepidoptera, at any rate, is materially added to. The Macro-Lepidoptera 

 have been ' done ' by Mr. Goss, assisted by Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher and 

 Captain Savile-Reid ; whilst Messrs. P. B. Bright, Eustace R. Bankes, 

 C. G. Barrett, and W. H. B. Fletcher are responsible for the Micros. The 

 Coleoptera are fully worked out by the Rev. Canon W. Fowler and Mr. 

 James J. Walker; Neuroptera and Trichoptera by Messrs. R. M. Lachlan, 

 K. J. Morton, and J. J. F. X. King; the Orthoptera by Mr. Malcolm Burr; 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera by Mr. Edward Saunders ; the Phytophaga by Miss 

 Ethel Chawner; the Diptera by Mr. F. C. Adams; the Hemiptera-Heterop- 

 tera by Mr. Edward Saunders; and the Hemiptera-Homoptera by Mr. 

 James Edwards. The lists of some of the so-called ' neglected orders ' are 

 necessarily incomplete, but the names of the compilers are in themselves 

 guarantees of their correctness so far as they go, and thus they form solid 

 bases upon which future workers may safely build. We hail the appearance of 

 the volume with the greatest satisfaction, and eagerly look forward to seeing 

 those devoted to other counties equally well done. — G. T. P. 



Naturalist, 



