566 
ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
WalkeRj Francis. List of tlie specimens of Lepidopterous In- 
sects in tlie Collection of the British Museum. Parts ifxxii.^ 
xxxiii.& xxxiv. (being parts 2-1 of the Supplement) ^ pp.323- 
1533. Published by order of the Trustees^ 1865. 
These three parts contain a list of the species acquired by the 
British Museum since the publication of the parts of the Cata- 
logue relating to the larger Heterocera and Pyralulce, with de- 
scriptions of a great number of new species from the Museum 
collection and that of Mr. Saunders. 
B. Separate Works, 
Werneburg, a. Beitrage zur Schmetterlingskunde. Two 
volumes^ 8vo, pp. viii and 595 & 350. Erfurt 1864. 
This valuable work contains^ as expressed in its second title, 
a Critical elaboration of the most important entomological 
works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as regards the 
European Lepidoptera treated of therein. Commencing with 
the great work of Aldrovandi on Insects, the author analyses 
the various entomological publications (some of them mere com- 
pilations) of the pre-Linnean period, referring the European 
Lepidoptera described in them to their modern species. In 
treating of the Lepidoptera described in the works of Linnaeus 
and his contemporaries Clerck, Scopoli, and Hufnagel, Werne- 
hurg brings together in parallel columns all the species referred 
to by these authors, arranging them in such a manner that the 
name given to each insect by each author stands on the same 
line, which also includes Jthe modern denomination. In this way 
the synonymy of European Lepidoptera for the Linnean period 
is brought together in a remarkably convenient form j the first 
description of each species is indicated by its pgme being printed 
in thick letters ; and the table is further elucidated by a long 
series of notes on particular species. The works of Fahricius 
and the ^Wiener Yerzeichniss ^ are similarily treated. The 
species described in the works of other authors are arranged 
under their respective titles in the order in which they occur, 
and furnished with their modern equivalents. This is evidently 
a v,"ork of enormous labour and research, and will be indispensa- 
ble to all future students of European Lepidoptera. 
Nowicki, Max. Microlepidopterorum species novtC. 1864, 
cum figg. 
This work, which the Becorder has not seen, is referred to in 
the author^s Beitrag zur Lepidopterenfauna Galiziens {pide 
infra) j where the species described are cited. 
