the dorsum fuscous, apex of the segments black, with an interrupted yellow basal lunule; apical segments entirely blackish-fuscous; wings hyaline, the costa yellow, pterostigma short, the sides a little oblique, black. Length 53-41 millim.; alar expanse 49-41 millim.; pterostigma 14 millim. : Hab. U. S. Chicago, Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Mass. CALOPTERYX, Leach. C. VIRGINICA, Drury ed. Westwood.-C. DIMIDIAta, Rambur. Brassy-green, shining; labium, antennae, thoracic sutures, pectus, venter, and feet black; abdomen with the dorsal stripe, venter with segments 8-10 yellow; wings narrow, hyaline, the base somewhat flavescent, the apex blackish-fuscous; pterostigma in the female snowwhite. Length 50-52 millim.; alar expanse 70-72 millim.; pteros. tigma 2 millim. Hab.: Hudson's Bay, U. S. Mass. and Southward. C. MACULATA, Beauv.-C. HOLOSERICCUS, Burm. C. PAPILIONACEA, Ramb. Brassy-green or blue, shining; labium, antennae, thoracic sutures, pectus, venter, and feet black; abdomen with a dorsal yellow stripe, 8-10 segments in the female; wings very broad, densely reticulated, black, sometimes with hyaline spots in the male, or clouded with fuscous, and fuscous at the apex, the female with a snow-white pterostigma. Length 38-48 millim.; alar expanse 63-65 millim.; pterostigma 2-2 millim. Hab.: U. S. Chicago, Mass. and Southward. A species common and widely diffused. C. APICALIS, Burm. Brassy-green, shining; labium, antennae, thoracic sutures, and pectus black, or in the female in part flavescent; feet long, black, with long cilia; wings narrow, hyaline, or with the apex narrowly fuscous, pterostigma absent. Length 42 millim.; alar expanse 62 millim. Hab.: U. S. Pennsylvania, Mass. NOTICE OF MOCK SUNS, AS SEEN NEAR THE MUSKOKA RIVER IN NOVEMBER, 1861. BY A. CLIFFORD THOMSON, P. L. S. While camped near the mouth of the Muskoka River, Canada West, on the 10th of November, 1861, I observed at about 9.40 A.M., the somewhat remarkable phenomenon of seven mock suns, as shewn in the accompanying sketch. In this drawing the H. H. represents the horizon, and the point z. the zenith. Unfortunately, I had not any instrument with me at the time, to enable me to note the posi tion of the halos; but two of these were quite excentric, both with regard to the sun and the zenith. The sun was too bright to be regarded with the naked eye, though the atmosphere was slightly hazy. The wind was light, and from the N. W. I venture to send this brief notice to the Canadian Journal, as I believe the phenomenon to which it refers, is rarely witnessed in so southern a latitude. It was observed on this occasion at Orillia and other places more or less distant from the point at which the above sketch was taken on the Muskoka River. The latitude of this point is 45° 10' N. REVIEWS. Isca Silurum; or, An Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Antiquities at Caerleon. By John Edward Lee, F. A. S., F. G.-S., Honorary Secretary to the Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association. London: Longman, Green, Longmans and Roberts, Paternoster Row. 1862. Caerleon, in Monmouthshire, in which the second Legion was stationed for many years during the Roman occupation of the island, has long been celebrated for the ancient relics which have been found there. Of these there has been no more zealous or successful collector than the author of the work now under review. Indeed, it is chiefly to his exertions that antiquaries are indebted for the extensive and interesting Museum in which are preserved so many memorials of Isca Silurum. The first work which Mr. Lee published on the subject appeared in 1845. Its title was "Delineations of Roman Antiquities found at Caerleon (the ancient Isca Silurum) and the neighbourhood." This was succeeded in 1850 by a "Description of a Roman building and other remains lately discovered at Caerleon." In the "Illustrated Catalogue," which has recently appeared, Mr. Lee has combined the substance of the two former volumes with an account of recent discoveries. The work also contains a notice of the excavation, directed by Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P., at Caerwent, (the ancient Venta Silurum) which produced some of the best specimens in the Museum ; a full abridgement of a valuable paper on the early history of Caerleon by Thos. Wakeman, Esq.; and fifty-two lithographic illustrations; all the plates being either transferred from the author's own etchings, or drawn by him direct upon the stone. These illustrations form a most valuable portion of the volume, as they are drawn with more than ordinary care and are perfectly reliable as faithful copies. In the literary part of the catalogue, Mr. Lee obtained assistance from some of the most highly esteemed authorities in Archæology. He makes his acknowledgments to Professor Mommsen and Dr. E. Hübner of Berlin; to Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P., Rev. C. W. King, M.A., Albert Way, Esq., A. W. Franks, Esq., W. S. Walford, Esq., Thos. Wakeman, Esq., Henry Montonnier Hawkins, Esq., C. Roach Smith, Esq., and Dr. Thurnam, of England; and to the Rev. Dr. McCaul, of Canada. The principal part of the volume is occupied by the Roman remains, VOL. VII. 2 B which, in consequence of their numbers, are placed first. The few Celtic antiquities are next described; then the fragments which may be called early Welch; and lastly the Medieval remains and the objects of later date. In the description of the Roman remains the arrangement of Mr. Wilde, in the Catalogue of the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, has been adopted; and they are classed under the heads of stone, earthen, vegetable, animal, and metallic materials, -the coins being described last. Of the Numismatic relics, of which there are specimens beginning with Claudius and ending with Honorius and Arcadius, a well prepared list has been furnished by the Rev. C. W. King, so favourably known by his valuable contributions to our knowledge of antique gems. Of the Latin inscriptions there are -exclusively of those on fictile remains-about twenty that are perfect, some on altars and tablets and others on grave-stones. most remarkable of these is the following:: IMPP VALERIANVS ET GALLIENVS LO RESTITVERVNT PER DESTICIVM IVBAM VITVALSIVM LÆTINIANVM LEG LEG The i.e., Imperatores Valerianus et Gallienus Augusti et Valerianus nobilissimus Cæsar cohorti (not cohortis, as Mr. Lee gives it) septimae centurias a solo restituerunt per Desticium Jubam virum clarissimum legatum Augustorum propraetore et Vitulasium Laetinianum legatum legionis secundae Augustae curante Domitio Potentino praefecto legionis ejusdem. This inscription has two peculiarities which we have not observed in any other. The first is the use of centurias which Mr. Lee correctly explains as meaning "soldiers' quarters," the other, which Mr. Lee does not notice, is the singular mention of a legate and a praefect at the same time in the same legion. Of this the most probable explanation seems to us to be, that Domitius Potentinus was praefectus castrorum. In the restoration and interpretation of the less perfect inscriptions, we notice two examples from amongst those found at Caerleon, but not now in the Museum, in which the ingenuity and learning of a distinguished fellow-townsman, whose communications have occasionally enriched our own pages, are remarkably displayed. After copying the several inscriptions from the works in which they are preserved, Mr. Lee says, "It had not been my intention to have suggested any reading or made any remark on the inscriptions given above in type, and which are not now in the Museum; but while these sheets are in the printer's hands, the Rev. J. McCaul, LL.D., of Toronto, has favoured me with a letter containing many curious observations respecting them. It is his intention shortly to collect into a volume his 'Notes on Roman Inscriptions in Britain;' but as he very liberally allows me to make use of his communication, I cannot resist giving extracts from his letter which refers to two of these inscriptions." We copy the inscriptions as given from Coxe's History of Monmouthshire, and add to each Dr. McCaul's note. The eighth inscription runs thus : DEDICATV OG ES VE NIO MAXIMOIE FVRPANO COS Dr. McCaul says: "This inscription evidently meant the dedication or inauguration of some buildings; and as usual the consuls are stated. Read the last three lines thus : i.e., A.D. 234." MAXIMO II The ninth inscription is thus given : DD VIIII OCCB PRCR EIML COS CVR VRSO AGTE EI: IVS |