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of Lepidoptera in all tlieir stages. 8vo. London, 18G9 ; 
pp. 122. 
Knaggs, finding it impossible to publish the continuation of 
bis Notes on QoWectxn^ Lepidoptera^^ in the Entomologist's 
Monthly Magazine, decided on issuing them separately in the 
present handy little volume. The book is so arranged that the 
headings of the pages form a sufficient index to its contents. 
Newman, E. An illustrated natural history of British Moths, 
with life-size figures from nature of each species and of the 
more striking varieties j also full descriptions of both the 
perfect insect and tlic caterpillar, together with dates of 
appearance, and localities where found. Roy. 8vo: London, 
1869 : pp. 486. 
Contains accurate woodcuts, accompanied by descriptions and • 
a good index, of all the British moths, according to Doubleday^s 
arrangement, as far as the end of the Noctuce, 
llosNY, L. DE. Traite de Teducation des vers a soie au Japon, 
traduit du japon nais par ordre de S. Exc. le Ministre de 
rAgrieulture. 2™® edition, revue et corrigee. Paris, 1868 : 
8vo, 12 plates and coloured frontispiece, pp. viii, Iviii, 171. 
Contains a full account of the Japanese method of cultivating 
the mulberry and rearing the silkworm. It is preceded by an 
historical introduction by De Rosny, and is followed by extracts 
from various Japanese authors, vocabularies, &c. The book will 
interest the historian and philologist as well as the sericicul- 
turist. 
ScuDDER, S. H. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of 
Natural History. — I. Entomological Correspondence of 
Thaddeus William Harris, M.D. 8vo. Boston, 1869: 
pp. 375, portrait and 4 coloured plates. 
More than a third of this volume relates to Lepidoptera^ and 
the plates are chiefly devoted to their transformations. In the 
Appendix, Dr. Harris’s original descriptions of new species are 
reprinted from the ^ New England Farmer.^ 
Stainton, H. T. The Tineina of Southern Europe. 8vo. 
London, 1869 ; pp. viii, 370, plate and woodcuts. 
A resume of all the species of Tineina observed by authors in 
various parts of Southern Europe, including reprints of the 
original descriptions of all exclusively southern species. The 
descriptions are given in the original languages to avoid any 
danger of a wrong turn being given to them in translation. 
Walker, P. Characters of undcscribed Lepidoptera Ileteroccra. 
London, 1869: 8vo, pp. 112. 
In this work Walker publishes descriptions of a great number 
of new species from various public and private collections. As 
the work is indispensable to all students of exotic Heterocerttf 
