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INSECTA. 
By D. Sharp. 
Tiie number of titles in this year’s Record is 974, the number in 1890 
being 927. 
The most extensive additions to our knowledge of new forms continue 
to be made in fauuistic works. Of these Whymper’s appendix (963) to 
his Travels in the Andes (962) merits special notice. Aided by the late 
IT. W. Bates and several other entomologists, he has given us a volume 
devoted in larger part to Entomology, and illustrated by wood engravings 
of the best quality. The interest of the work is much increased by the 
fact that a considerable portion of the species described in it were found 
at a great elevation. In his preface Whymper mentions that at a spot 
in the environs of Quito ho one day amused himsolf by “ boating ” tho 
dwarf vegetation into bis hat, and thus secured about thirty species of 
insects ; although this frequented locality has been previously visited by 
Humboldt and Bonpland, by Buckley, Ida Pfeiffer, Reiss and Stiibel, 
and others, yet it appears that all the thirty species thus obtained by 
Whymper were new, and that there were two new genera among them. 
It would be difficult to find a more convincing proof of the embryonic 
condition of descriptive Entomology than this fact. 
We are indebted to Lord Walsingham (917) for the description and 
illustration of a large number of new species and genera of small moths 
from Tropical and Southern Africa, and also for another valuable 
memoir (918) relating to the Lepidoptera of the West Indian Islands. 
From the British Museum we have received another part of the Illustra- 
tions of Lepidoptera ; this (369) has been prepared by Mr. G. F. H AMP- 
SON, and relates, like the preceding part, to E. Indian forms. Fauvel 
(275) has given us another instalment of his valuable, though too 
fragmentary, sketch of the Coleoptera of New Caledonia, a locality much 
neglected by Entomologists, though of great intrinsic interest. A fair 
amount of progress has been made with the Insecta in Godman & 
Salvin’s Biologia Centrali- Americana (337). 
In systematic work dealing with insects of the world, it will be noticed 
that Brunner v. Wattenwyl has published a supplement (107) to his 
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