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Familiar Butterflies and Moths. By W. F. Kirby. (Cassell and

Co. es.)—This book is subsidiary to the author's larger work on " European Butterflies." about to appear, we are glad to hear, in a new edition. It is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with "Butterflies," "Hawk-Moths," and "Moths," the last occupying considerably more space than the other two put together. It is handsomely and fully illustrated throughout, the eighteen plates giving more than two hundred figurings of the creatures in their developed or undeveloped state. A supple- mentary chapter is given on "Collecting Butterflies and Moths.-