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Book Notice {Victoria History of Surrey). 



nothing could be done in Entomology. Mr. Burton secured 

 a larva of Calocampa exoleta, which was found feeding on a 

 species of Lilium in the Abbey gardens. But beyond this 

 nothing of importance was reported, and Mr. Thornley took 

 nothing himself that he considered worthy of record in ' The 

 Naturalist. .' 



The day was an agreeable one, if of slight scientific value. 

 Hearty votes of thanks and plaudits were awarded to Mrs. 

 Stanhope, and to Mr. Conway Walter for his most successful 

 exertions on behalf of the Union. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



The Victoria History of the Counties of England — Surrey.— 



Archibald Constable & Co. Limited. 



We have received a copy of the Entomological portion of another county 

 of the Victoria History — Surrey. As was the case with the History of 

 Hampshire (noticed in this journal at p. 16 of the Volume for 1901), it has 

 been edited by Mr. Herbert Goss, F. L.S., Secretary to the Entomolog-ical 

 Society of London, who has again succeeded in enlisting' the co-operation 

 of the best specialists connected with the county in the various branches of 

 the science. Well done as was the Entomolog-ical history of Hampshire, 

 this of Surrey, as might have been expected when Mr. Goss was recording 

 the work done in his own county, we think is still better done ; for whilst 

 the lists of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are probably as complete and 

 accurate as in the former volume, many of the so-called ' neglected orders ' 

 are in the Surrey volume almost as equally well done as the two more 

 generally worked Orders. No doubt this is accounted for by the fact that 

 a large part of Surrey is included in the London area, which contains so 

 numerous a band of enthusiastic and experienced entomologists, and all of 

 the county within easy access to the same workers. When we find that out 

 of the 500 pages to which the first volume of Surrey extends, no less than 

 102 pages are appropriated by the 'Insecta,' we form some idea of the 

 thoroughness with which the work has been handled. We are glad to note, 

 too, that the General Editor of the Victoria History has not insisted on the 

 preposterous arrang-ement and nomenclature which, in the first prospectus 

 of the work, was suggested for the Lepidoptera. In the volume before us 

 Mr. Goss is himself responsible for the Macro-Lepidoptera, but has had the 

 assistance of Messrs. C. G. Barrett, T. H. Briggs, and Sydney Webb ; 

 whilst Mr. C. G. Barrett, assisted by Messrs. T. H. Brigg-s and Sydney 

 Webb, is responsible for the Micro-Lepidoptera. The Coleoptera have been 

 done by Mr. G. C. Champion, assisted by Messrs. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe 

 and R. W. Lloyd ; a splendid compilation, but its value discounted, we 

 think, by the fact that it is the only list in the volume in which definite 

 localities are not given for the species. The Neuroptera and Trichoptera 

 are well recorded by Mr. W. J. Lucas, assisted by Messrs. C. A. Briggs 

 and R. McLachlan ; the Aculeate Hymenoptera by Mr. Edward Saunders ; 

 the Chrysididse by the Rev. Francis D. Morice ; and the Phytophagous 

 Hymenoptera by Miss Ethel F. Chawner, assisted by Mr. Alfred Beaumont 

 and the Rev. F. D. Morice. The Orthoptera have a competent recorder in 

 Mr. Malcolm Burr, assisted by Mr. W. J. Lucas ; the Diptera have been 

 done by Mr. Ernest E. Austen; the Hemiptera-Heteroptera bv Mr. Edward 

 Saunders, and the Hemiptera-Homoptera by Mr. G. Bowdler Buckton. We 

 only hope the Entomology of all the future county histories will be entrusted 

 to as competent and painstaking compilers. G. T. P. 



Naturalist, 



