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the text gives a systematic survey of the European Lepidop-terous Fauna. In the arrangement, however, the European species only are considered, and probably in consequence ofits containing too many subdivisions, it does not afford avery distinct view. That a critical care is not paid,throughout, to the admission of species, is evident from thecircumstance that an artificially blackened Deilephila Eu-phorbia has been figured as D. Esulce. The outline-figuresspecially intended to represent the generic characters arevery good. Two Parts have appeared in 1843, each with10 plates, but the work is in rapid progress.

A notice has been already given in the last year’sReport, on the contents of the Parts of Freyer’s ‘ NeueBeitrage zur Schmetterlingskunde/ which appeared in1843.

On the Butterflies of the Rheinthal, or Schliicken Alps, near Reutte , inthe Tyrol, a report by Ereyer. (Ent. Zeit. s. 153.162.)

Account of a lepidopterological excursion from Vienna to the StyrianAlps. (Ib. s. 141.)

Entomological notices by Kokeil (Isis, 1843, p. 139), refer to some Lepi-doptera observed near Laybach.

Hering (Ent. Zeitung . s. 6. 343, 354) has continued his enumeration ofthe Lepidoptera of Pomerania .

Dr. H. R. Schmidt, in Dantzic (Preuss. Prov. Blatt., s. 316) has givena brief supplement to Siebold’s ‘ Catalogue of Prussian Lepidoptera.’Among the thirteen species enumerated is Doritis mnemosyne, found by HerrKaspari.

British Moths, and their Transformations; with fifty-six coloured platesby Humphreys, and descriptions by J. O. Westwood, Vol. I, London ,1843, 4.

Eversmann (Bull. Mosc. p. 535) has described, and partly figured, anumber of new Lepidoptera from the Ural and Altai, which will be mentionedmore particularly below.

Untersuchung der Beine der Schmetterlinge. f Investi-gation of the Legs of the Lepidoptera / A contribution totheir systematic arrangement. By Dr. Adolph Speyer andOtto Speyer. (Isis. p. 161.)

This memoir is a continuation of the excellent and original papers by the