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testify. Nor can the keeping of insects in large tobacco boxes (p. 

 356) be endorsed, unless the Australian boxes are very much tighter 

 than those of this part of the world, even if our practice does not 

 always agree with our preaching ! The presence of decaying vege- 

 table matter is surely not essential in rearing the eggs of all Odonata 

 (P- 35$) : in the annual case of Sympetrum ricinnni mentioned above, 

 no vegetable matter is employed. 



The title of No. 22 in the bibliography (p. 364) is incorrectly 

 given; the paper in question had not the wide scope which the mis- 

 quotation implies. The larger German text-books are so extent-, 

 that the student will have some difficulty in finding the Odonata on 

 "pp. 380 et scq." of No. 81 in the same list (p. 367) ; "Allgemeincr 

 Theil, 4te Lieferung, 1910," at least should be added to the citation. 

 Some mention should be made in the bibliography, even with its 

 limitations as laid down in the preface (pp. vii-viii), of the work of 

 A. N. Bartenef on the Palaearctic fauna. In view of the use of tlu 

 word cell in two distinct meanings on the same page (c. g. 244), it 

 would seem desirable to include both meanings in the glossary ( p. 

 377), as those who need the one would also require the other. Ui 

 page 378 is the remark that the word c.vui'iae does not exist in liu 

 singular and, although the Century Dictionary (not to quote others) 

 supports this statement, yet cxiivia and c.vm'ium appear in at least 

 one American entomological glossary and it is difficult to see why tlr ; 

 is not as good neo-Latin terminology as many of our accepted generi: 

 and specific names. 



Mr. Tillyard says in his preface (pp. ix-x) : "Readers will . . . not 

 fail to discover a very strong Australian 'flavour' in the book. Tho-r 

 who know how rich and varied the Australian Dragonfly-fauna is, 

 will look upon this rather as an advantage than otherwise While 

 care has been exercised in selecting, for general description, well- 

 known genera of wide distribution, yet there has been no hesitation 

 in making use of the more archaic Australian forms, when tl 

 latter could throw new light on the phylogeny of the Order." 



We welcome the Australian flavor and the ectogenic, if not ento- 

 genic, Australian authorship on this and other grounds as well. We 

 look to younger continents, as well as to younger men, for new 

 points of view, for liberation from the thralldom of stereotyped ideas, 

 and Mr. Tillyard has assuredly given us these in plenty in his 

 of Dragonflies. P. P. CAI.VERT. 



Abundance of Sympetrum rubicundulum (Odonata). 



w niluciindiiliiin Say was exceedingly common in my gar- 

 den as well as in tho- of my neighbors, at Mt. Airy. Pennsylvania, 

 during the month of Septemh'.-r. nji/. The nearest breeding place is 

 at least a half mile from my home. PHILIP LAURENT, Philadelphia, Pa. 



