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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
an Original Paper on any subject, 
should be requested to present it to 
the Society, and the same be care- 
fully kept for the use of the 
Members. 
September 3, 18G3. 
REVIEWS OF BOOKS- 
On the Geographical Distribution of 
European Ehopalocera. 
As we write, there lies on the 
table beside us a pamphlet, bearing 
the above title. It fox-ms a part of 
the Transactions of the London 
Entomological Society ; and was 
read at the commencement of the 
present year, at a monthly meeting 
ol the members. 
We need hai-dly tell our readers 
that this little treatise is from the pen 
of Mr. W. F. Kirby. The European 
Ehopalocera are his forte; and he 
has done much to render an outline 
knowledge of them attainable by 
evex-y British Entomologist. 
Fii-st of all, the writer divides 
Europe into thirteen districts, and 
gives us full statistics, briefly i-ecor- 
ded thus : — 
“ Dist. I. Iceland. Six diurnal 
Lepidoptera known. All these are 
confined to Lapland and Iceland, 
with two exceptions, Colias P alamo 
and Phicomene. 
“Dist. II. Scandinavia. 112 species 
known, of which nine ai-e peculiar 
to the district. All the British Lepi- 
doptera but 1 2 are to be found among 
the species of Scandinavia. 
“ Dist. III. Russia to the North of 
Poland. 70 species known, of which 
one is peculiar to the district. 
“Dist. IV. Poland and South Rus- 
sia 205 species known, of which 27 
are peculiar to the district. 
“ Dist. V. Turkey and Dalmatia. 
This counti-y is very little known. Of 
the 46 species hitherto discovex*ed 
ixine are peculiar to the district. 
“ Dist. VI. Greece. Also little 
known. Mr. Kirby is of opinioxi that 
nearly 200 species may occur: 18 
ax-e at px-esent kxxown, of which 4 are 
peculiar species. 
“Dist. VII. Italy. 114 species 
known, out of which there is only 
oxxe peculiar species. 
“Dist. VIII. Cox-sica and Sax-dinia. 
30 species ; 3 peculiar species. 
“ Dist IX. Spain and Portugal. 
Comprises oxxly 115 species, includ- 
ing 5 peculiar. 
“ Dist. X. Fraixce. Coxxtaixxs about 
200 species, of which, one is certainly 
peculiar to the country ; and axxother 
is kxxown to occur nowhere but ixx 
France ; but is doubtful thex-e. 
“ Dist. XI. Britain. Between 60 
and 70 species, (depending- on liberal 
or consex-vative ideas). All these 
Ehopalocera. occur in France. 
“ Dist. XII. North Central (Den- 
mark, Germany, Holland and Bel- 
giuixx). Contaiixs 114 species, of 
which 2 are supposed to be peculiar, 
“Dist. XIII. Austria and Switzer- 
land. 195 species known; three 
peculiar to the district.” 
We have thus touched upoxx the 
opening remax-ks of this excellent 
little pamphlet. The tabulation is 
clear axxd intelligible. Further on, 
the author entex-s xxxore widely upon 
his subject ; and l-everts to the x-ange 
of European species, in other parts of 
the wox-ld. Space fox-bids our follow- 
ing him at present, beyond the fore- 
going table ; but we shall refer to t he 
remainder of his little book, when 
opportunity permits. 
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