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Habits, food, cases, pupation, haunts, seasonal distribution, etc., are 

 given throughout, as well as structures, and many interesting alterations 

 of cases during the life of their occupants are illustrated. It is excel- 

 lent pioneer work. 



The bulletin is also marked upon the title page "Entomological Series 

 No. 1 ;" and entomologists, seeing the excellent shape in which this work 

 is gotten out will certainly hope that the series may be continued. 

 JAMES G. NEEDHAM. 



OBITUARY. 



The death of Dr. ODOARDO BECCARI, on October 25, 1920. 

 at Florence, Italy, where he was lately Director of the Botani- 

 cal Garden, was announced in Science for February 11, 1921. 

 He explored Indo-Malaysia and Papua from 1865 to 1876 

 and in 1904 published in London, in English, his Wanderings 

 in the Great Forests of Borneo, Travels and Researches of a 

 Naturalist in Saraivak. He made a special study of palms but 

 also collected insects, his Odonata from his eastern travels, for 

 example, being enumerated by de Selys in the Annali of the 

 Genoa Museum in 1879, and he published an account of the 

 formicary plants of Malaysia and Papuasia in 3'falcsia, 2. 



Prof. TSUNEKATA MiYAKE, of the department of zoology. 

 Agricultural College, Imperial University of Tokyo, died of 

 typhoid fever on February 2, 1921, according to Science for 

 March 11. He was the author of Konchugakn Hanron 

 Jokwan (General Treatise on Entomology), 1917, 1919, two 

 volumes of which were briefly and favorably reviewed by Dr. 

 L. O. Howard in Science for August 3, 1917 (p. 113), and 

 December 5, 1919 (p. 527), respectively. In the latter Dr. 

 Howard stated that the author expected to publish two addi- 

 tional volumes, but we do not know whether they have ap- 

 peared or not. Among the researches of Prof. Miyake were 

 The Life History of Panorpa Kluc/i McLaclilan (1912), 

 Studies on the Mccoptcra of Japan (1913) and Studies on the 

 Fruit Flies of Japan. I. Japanese Oruni/c Fly (1919, see EN r. 

 XKWS, xxx, p. 237), all published in the Journal of the Col- 

 Icy c of Agriculture of Tokyo University. 



