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interested in Entomology, both in and outside of India .... no 

 Report was published of the First Entomological Meeting held in 1915. 

 The Report of the Second Meeting, held in 1917, is still available." 



The fact that the Report of the Second Meeting* occupied but a single 

 volume of xii and 340 pages shows how much Indian entomology grew 

 during the two years between the two meetings. The attendance at the 

 Third Meeting was forty-six, while sixteen non-attendants contributed 

 papers ; among the latter we find the names of Prof. Brues, of Har- 

 vard ; Mr. D. T. Fullaway, of Hawaii; Prof. E. B. Poulton, Dr. David 

 Sharp and Messrs. E. Meyrick and T. H. Watson, of England. 



As one might infer the greater part of these three volumes is occu- 

 pied with the consideration of Indian insects of economic importance ; 

 indeed, pages 33-314 contain Mr. Fletcher's "Annotated List of Indian 

 Crop Pests," with numerous brief remarks by those present at the 

 meeting. Such articles, no doubt, will be helpful to economic ento- 

 mologists in other lands in the case of widely distributed species. Of 

 more present interest are perhaps two papers on the Pink Bollworm in 

 Egypt by Dr. L. H. Gough and Mr. F. C. Willcocks respectively, and 

 on the "Control of the Melon Fly in Hawaii, by a Parasite \Of>ius 

 flclchcri] introduced from India," by D. T. Fullaway. The technique 

 of insect breeding, collecting and preserving forms the subject of five 

 papers. Entomological publication and education are considered and in 

 the third volume are several articles of general entomological bearing, 

 such as the insect prey of birds, spiders as checks on Lepidopterous 

 larvae, the importance of insects to fisheries, the preparation and repro- 

 duction of scientific illustrations, the decimal method of subject-index- 

 ing entomological literature, etc. Altogether we congratulate our Indian 

 colleagues on their activity and interest as shown by these three vol- 

 umes. P. P. CALVERT. 



HUMAN PARASITOLOGY with Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Labo- 

 ratory Diagnosis, Hematology and Serology. By DAMASO RIVAS, Asst. 

 Prof, of Parasitology, etc. [Medical School"!, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Co. 1920. 8vo. 715 

 pp., 16 pis., 422 text figs. 



PARASITES AND PARASITOSIS OF THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS. By B. M. 

 UNDERBILL, V.M.D., Prof, of Parasitology, School of Veterinary Medi- 

 cine, University of Pennsylvania. New York: The Macmillan Co. 

 1920. 8vo, pp. xix, 379, 8 pis., 172 text figs. 



These two text-books, emanating from two schools of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, naturally include the parasitic arthropods. Dr. Rivas 

 devotes to them 113 pages (464-475 Arthropods in general, 476-496 

 Arachnicla, 497-576 Insecta) ; Dr. Underbill gives them 142 pages (13-22 

 Arthropods and Insects in general, 23-93 Insects. 94-154 Arachnids). 

 In the first book, Part I is general and introductory (pp. 17-48). Parts 



* See Ent. News, xxix, p. 277. 



