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REVIEWS. 
zealous labours of Erichson and Schaum have, long since, given our 
Continental brethren the benefit of similar compilations year by year. 
Nor need this Annual in the least interfere with the utility of the 
“Zoologist” and kindred monthly publications; to their pages a paper is 
hardly admissible if not original, whereas to the Annual information will 
be all the more valuable after it has stood the test of public scrutiny un¬ 
scathed. According to the editor— 
“ The idea of the present work is to supply these two main desiderata—to give, 
systematically, notices of all the new species found in this country in the past year, 
and, at the same time, to intimate which once rare species had been taken in any 
plenty. In the present volume, so much space being occupied by notices of the 
novelties since the last standard work on the subject, there was not room left for 
notices of the rare species which have become common, without swelling the book 
to a size which, by enhancing its cost, would have diminished its usefulness by 
limiting its circulation.” 
We must, however, tell our readers, that there is to the latter statement 
a pleasing exception, and that the notices of the Tineina (the recent publi¬ 
cation of his complete work on which, has given Mr. Stainton an advantage 
over his brother writers, by reducing the addenda to a very small number), 
are as completely worked out as, we trust, those of the other insects will 
be hereafter. 
The present number contains but three orders—Lepidoptera, by the 
Editor ; Hymenoptera, by Mr. F. Smith, of the British Museum ; and Co- 
leoptera, by Mr. E. W. Janson, who is new to us as an author, though 
well-known to the members of the Entomological Society as curator of 
their museum and library. 
The new Microlepidoptera and Tortrices are enumerated from the pub¬ 
lication of Stephens’s “ Illustrations,” in 1835, and number 153 species. 
The year 1854 has produced nine more, along with eleven of the Tineina— 
the latter of which thus form a supplement even to the recent standard 
work on that group. But there is here an omission—the Crambina seem 
to have been thought unworthy of notice, and the Pterophoridse totally 
forgotten. Now, we are not conscious of any particular predilection for 
the unfortunate “ snouts,” as they are wont to be termed; yet, as lovers of 
impartiality, we must assert their claims to admission, and, likewise, those 
of the elegant-plumed moths—which, surely, are an interesting group. 
In the Hymenoptera, the new bees (numbering fifty-nine species) date 
from Kirby’s “ Monographia,” in 1802, and the new fossorial Hyme- 
noptera, from Shuckard’s “Essay,” in 1836. These are followed by 
“ Notes on the Myrmicidae and Formicidae,” and “ Notes in explanation 
of the New Species of Aculeate Hymenoptera, in Stephens’s Systematic 
Catalogue.” 
