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W. Lucina. Taken at Bramham 
Park, near Tadcaster. 
S. Alveolus. Common. Also the 
light variety. 
T. Tages. Common. 
H. Sylvanus. ditto. 
,, Comma. Taken in the East 
Biding, but I have never seen it at 
York. 
,, Linea. Common. 
By this list it will be seen that no 
less than forty two species are found 
about York, — no mean number, I 
think, out of sixty five or six, — and 
it is very probable that more may be 
found yet. I think Davus ought to 
be found upon our moors. Davus, 
Blandina and W- — Album are taken 
within thirty miles, and Cratcegi used 
to be taken at Cawood, about ten 
miles from us ; so I think we may 
fairly claim for York the reputation 
of one of the best localities in England 
for Ehopalocera. 
To be continued. 
REVIEWS OF B00K3. 
A Natural History of British Moths , by 
the Rev. F. 0. Moans: — 
A few weeks ago, we referred to 
the engravings of Yoctucc in the above 
work. We have now had the pleasure 
of inspecting them after undergoing 
the process of being colored. Mr. 
Morris is certainly conferring a boon 
on the Entomological public, by 
bringing out this work, and his 
assistants are evidently masters of 
their art. 
Some of the figures of Yoctufe 
strike us particularly by their delicacy 
of execution. Thyatira derasa, — a 
species, we should suppose, not easily 
done justice to, and which, in most 
colored figures, is coarsely executed, 
is here hit off to perfection. Its 
delicacy of color, and exquisite har- 
mony and intricacy of marking, are 
exactly reproduced. 
The genus Lcdcania, again, we can 
easily suppose, presents no small 
amount of difficulty, on account of the 
separate variety of shade, which dis- 
tinguishes each species from all the 
others. Mj\ Prest, however, (the 
artist,) has been most happy in his 
selection of colors, for the illustration 
of this genus, and there is no mistak- 
ing the identity of the species. We 
know that Mr. Prest is a hard-work- 
ing Entomologist himself, and doubt- 
less this fact, to some extent, accounts 
for the superiority of his workman- 
ship. But, did we not know it, the 
excellence of the figures we have seen 
would, we think, have caused us to 
suspect the truth. We must congrat- 
ulate Mr. Morris on his artist. 
We are quite persuaded that the 
“ Yatural History of British Moths,” 
only needs to be better known, to 
make it widely popular. It is not 
only suitable for the library of the 
Entomologist, but well merits a place 
on any drawing room table, even 
on the grounds of its artistic beauties 
alone. 
Notices to Correspondents. 
Several communications must stand 
over, on account of a press of matter. 
