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MOTYLI. 3. By Rudolf Schwarz. 157 pp., 4R col. pIs. 1953. Publisher: tesko­slovenske Akademie Ved, Prague, Czechoslovakia. [Obtainable from the publisher or perhaps better through personal arrangement with a fellow member of The Lepidoperists' Society living in Czechoslovakia.]

This is the third of Dr. SCHWARZ'S series of superbly illustrated little volumes on the Lepidoptera of Czechoslovakia (see review of volumes 1 and 2 in Lepid. NeU's 5: 62; 1951). Volume 3 covers the Sphingida:, AOgeriida:, Cossida:, Orneodida:, and Ptero­phorida:. Not only are the adults figured, but also the larva: and pupa: of most Sphingida: and many of the others, all in excellent color. The text is in Czech, but the Latin names of food plants and parasites are easy to recognize.

ATLAS MOTYLO. By Julius Komarek & Jaroslav Tykac. 115 pp., 48 col. pIs. 1952. Publisher: Melantrich, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

This is another small and beautifully illustrated book on Czechoslovakian Lepid­optera. Most families (including "Micros") are shown, bm the emphasis is strongly on the "Macro" moths and the butterflies. A fair number of larva: are figured. The color reproduction is very fine. This being an Atlas, there is little text, bm the months of flight and localities are given in the plate captions.

THE BUTTERFLIES AND SKIPPERS OF LOUISIANA. By Edward Nelson Lambre­mont. Tulane Studies in Zoology . vol. 1: pp. 127-164.3 figs., 3 tables. 30 April 1954. Publisher: Dept. of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, La., U. S. A. [Obtainable from the publisher for $0.60.]

Thi" is an annotated check list of the 98 species and subspecies known to the author from Louisiana; 38 are new State records. Parish records and flight dates are given, but few if any original foodplant notes. Undoubtedly a request for records from Lepid­opterists' Society members would have greatly extended this list dnd its substance. The reviewer, in fact, collected additional species in Louisiana several years ago and reared some.

A LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN Ll'.PIDOPTERA IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUlv!. PART I BUTTERFLIES (SUBORDER RHOPALOCERA). By Lloyd M. Martin & Fred S. Truxal. Los Angeles Co. Mus. Sci. Series No. lR, Zoology No. H: 34 pp. Sept. 1955. [Price $1.10 postpaid, unbound; available from Los Angeles County Museum, Exposition Park, Los Angeles 7, Calif., U. S. A.]

This list shows the exact number of specimens of every species, subspecies, and form of North American butterfly contained in this most outstanding museum collection on the Pacific Coast. Type specimens are tabulated. Of considerable use to butterfly collec­tors anywhere in the continent is the citation, for each entity, of the state or province and [he months of capture of specimens in the collection. The nomenclature follows closely that of the 1938 McDUNNOUGH Check LiJi. and it is disappointing to see in such a potentially useful list as this new one that the many obvious and generally accepted re ­visions of nomenclature are not used . As exceptions, A grattliJ. Speyeria, and Bolori" are noted instead of Dione, Argynnis, and Brenthis. Ignored are: R . CHERMOCK'S sinking

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of Enodia and Satyrodes under Lethe; the use of selene and toddi for our two commonest and most widespread Boloria; the use of Libytheana for our species of Snout Butterflies; the flat homonymy of Heterochroa and Pieris napi pseudonapi; the NABOKOV and CLENCH revisions among the Blues; and many others. Some of the taxonomic placements are sur­prising, such as the listing of S. carYa!1)orus as a race of Stryrnol1 liparops. A serious mis­take is the use in print of a manuscript name, "Megathyrnus yUCCa! martini", although this name has not yet been published and validated by its real authors; fortunately, this appears to be a l10rnen 1l1.durn and can be ignored if " 5. Calif.; Jan.-Apr." does not constitute a validation in the sense of the Regles. These points show that as a check list for up-to-date nomenclature, this otherwise useful publication has little value.

CHECK LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN. PART 1: MICROPTERIGIDiE -PHALONIDiE. By Hiroshi Inoue. 112 pp. 15 Oct. 1954. Publisher: Rikusuisha Co. , 112/4 Iriarai, Otaku, Tokyo, Japan. [Obtainable from the publisher, unbound, for $2.00 postpaid.]

The author intends to issue this long-needed new check list in parts, at frequent in­tervals. The McDUNNOUGH Check List (North American) arrangement is used for families , but, as one would prefer, the sequence is reversed so that "primitive" families precede more specialized ones. This first part therefore deals with the Homoneura and the first 29 Japanese families of the Heteroneura (t. e., the so-called "true Micros"); there are 635 Japanese species listed. Part 1 begins with a list, arranged by superfamilies, of the 67 families which the author accepts for Japanese Lepidoptera.

For each species Mr. INOUE gives the reference to the original description and to

that of each synonym. He also lists the known distribution, in some cases the precise locality if no other is known.

Part 2 will deal with the superfamilies Pyralidoidea, Zygrenoidea, and Uranioidea; Part 3 with the Geometridre; Part 4 with the Drepanoidea, Bombycoidea, Lymantriidre, and Notodontidre; Part 5 with the Noctuidre; Part 6 with the Agaristidre, Arctiidre, Nolidre, Amatidre, Saturnioidea, and Sphingidre; and Part 7 (by T. SHlR6zu) with the butterflies.

SUO MEN SUURPERHOSTOUKlEN RAVINTOKASVIT [The foodplants of the Mac­rolepidoptera larvre of Finland I. By Eino J. Seppanen. 416 pp. 1954. Publisher : Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtiii, Parvoo, Finland. [Ohtainable from the publisher for $4.67 unbound, $5.57 bound.]

This is an extremely valuable book for lepidopterists anywhere interested in ex­tensive rearing. Already, the Yale group has had several occasions to look in it for the known food plants of Finnish relatives in order to get ideas for possible foods of American species whose host plants were unknown to us. It makes an excellent com­panion volume for P. B. M. ALLAN'S fine handbook of food plants of British Macro­lepidoptera (see Lepid. News 5: p. 60; 1951 ) . SEPPANEN lists for each species (where known): one or more published figure of the larva; the foodplants known in Finland: larval habits; dates of larval stages; Swedish food plants , and Central European food plants. The second part of the book is a list of the plants and under each the Lepidoptera feed­ing on them. Finally, there are complete indices of the names of Lepidoptera and of plants, followed by a list of references.

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FAUNULA LEPIDOPTEROLOGICA ALMERIENSE. By Ramon Agenjo. 370 pp., 35 figs., 24 pis. (5 col.). Publisher: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain. [Obtainable from the publisher.]

This is a taxonomic study of the 330 species of Lepidoptera (in 29 families) now known from Almeria province on the southern coast of Spain. For many of the most in­teresting species there are maps of their Spanish distribution. Described as new are 1 subfamily (Rhodometrinx of Geometridx), 7 genera, 2 subgenera, and 7 species. All new species and some other rarities are figured in color. There are many figures of male and female genitalia and several habitat photographs. Papilio machaon marhell­iensis Bryk is synonymized under P. m. hispanicus Eller.

THE TYPE MATERIAL IN THE J.B. SMITH AND G.D. HULST COLLECTIONS OF LEPIDOPTERA IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. By Frederick H. Rindge. Btlil. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 106: pp. 91-172. 25 April 1955. Publisher: the above Museum, New York 24, N. Y., U. S. A. [Obtainable from the publisher for $1.00.]

For traditional taxonomy, the largest single acquisition of types (over 2200, with about 1200 holotypes) in recent years by any American museum came with the recent transfer from Rutgers University to the American Museum of Natural History of the SMITH and HULST collections. Dr. RINDGE has now catalogued all this material and iu­corporated it into the general collection of the Museum. In the present publication all of the type specimens are listed, with their complete data. Lectotypes are not usually des­ignated, but it is presumed that SMITH'S term "type male" meant holotype, and "type female" meant allotype. For convenience, the species are listed alphabetically by specific name within each family. (SMITH'S types are principally Noctuidx, HULST'S mainly Geometridx). This is a painstaking paper which will be essential to taxonomists working with North American Noctuidx and Geometridx.

C. L. REMINGTON

THE EVANS CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN SKIPPERS

The most comprehensive and important publication in recent years on American Skippers is A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidt13 indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum (Natural History), by Brigadier W. H. EVANS. The author is without question the leading authority on the Hesperiidx of the world and is well known for his volumes on identi fication of Indian butterflies, as well as for his catalogues of the African and of the Palearctic and Indo-australian Hesperiidx. The new catalogue completes his treatment of all the known genera, species, and sub­species of Skippers in the world.

Part I (92 pp., 9 plates) covers the Pyrrhopyginx, Parts 11 (1 78 pp., 16 plates) and 1Il (246 pp., 28 plates) the Pyrginx, and Part IV (499 pp., 35 plates) the Hesperiinx and Megathyminx. As in the other EVANS "catalogues", this is actually a huge identifica­tion key, with a list of localities of British Museum specimens, and does not give ref­erence citations as is usual in taxonomic catalogues. The year of publication is always given, so that original descriptions can usually be found in the Zoological Record. The plates are composed of hundreds of line drawings of genitalia. Many new genera, species, and subspecies are described, especially from South America.

We hope to present in the News a full analytical review by a Skipper specialist of this great work. Meanwhile News readers should be aware of its existence. It may be purchased from: The British Museum (Nat. Hist.), Cromwell Road, London S. W. 7, England; and from E. W. CLASSEY, 91 Bedfont Lane, Feltham, Middx., England.

C. L. REMINGTON