222 Bihliograpldcal Notice.

Measurements in mm.—Length of body 2 2 '5; greatest breadtfi of anterior margin of liead-plate 5 75 ; length of clielicera 9, of palp (excluding tiie coxa) 29" 75, of patella of palp 11, of tibia of palp 6'75, of tarsus of palp 2, of fourth leg 44-5.

Log. Wady Haifa; a single female specimen, collected by Capt. S. S. Flower.

Dcpsia sp.

Log. Khartoum and the Blue Nile; owing to the absence of the male, I have not ventured to determine this species.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE.

Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalceace in the British Museum.

Vol. X. Noctuidoe. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1910. Price 20*. 8vo.

Pp. xix, 829.

It will hardly be disputed that Sir George F. Hampson is one of the most energetic and hard-working of living Entomologists, when we consider that this huge volume, the thickest of the whole series, was published at the end of the same year, the beginning of which saw the appearance of vol. ix. of the series, though that volume was smaller and contained only 552 pages. The fascicule of coloured plates belonging to vol. x., however, is not yet ready, but will appear shortly. The jiresent volume is devoted to the subfamily Erastriance, and includes 1222 species belonging to 136 genera, illustrated by 214 figures in the text, showing wings, neuration, head, &c.

We believe that another volume will probably complete the Noctuidse, of which the author has already described 6197 in vols.

iv.-x. of his work.

The Erastriance, as the term is used by the author, include all the British moths classed under the section Minores by Guene'e, except Acontia luctuosa and Erastria venustula ; the latter, however, is described by Hampson in his vol. viii. p. 493, n. 4201, as Monodes vemistula in the subfamily Acronyctinoi.

The British species described and sometimes figured in vol. x., under Erastriance., are Eahhmma ostrlna, Hiibn, (p. 118), E. parva, Hiibn. (p. 136), Lithacodia fasciana, L. (= fuscula, Schiff. (p. 539), Eustrotia uncula, Clerck (p. 578, fig.), Eustrotia olivana, Schiff. (= bankiana, Fabr.) (p. 580), Erastria trabecdis, Scop. {= sulphuralis, L.) (p. 660, fig.), and Tarache lucida, Hufn. — Solaris, Schiff.). Except Lithacodia fuscula, all these species are local in Britain (though one or twc are common in tht-ir special