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Species Memory and Simulation of Death. VI. Individual or Asso- 

 ciative Memory. VII. Spontaneous Modifications of Habits. VIII. 

 Evolution of Instincts. IX. Comparative Psychology. History of the 

 Pompilids. The Special Part comprises the following five chapters : 

 X. Insects and Flowers. XI. The Faculty of Orientation. XII. The 

 Faculty of Orientation [in] Terrestrial Articulates. XIII. The Divi- 

 sion of [the] Sexes [in] the Nest-Making Hymenoptera. XIV. The 

 Social Life of the Articulates and a Conclusion, containing, among 

 other topics, that interesting comparison between the structural bases 

 of the psychic life of Vertebrates and Insects respectively which is 

 largely due to Bergson. 



We confess that we can not always extract the same meaning from 

 the original as the translator has done. We would have written "wake- 

 fulness," instead of "age," in the last line of page 168. On page 328 

 we would have preferred "polygynous" and "polygyny" to "polygenous" 

 and "polygeny," and would have substituted "which the workers some 

 times produce" for the second line of page 345. On page 342, "Bonnier" 

 should be "Bugnion." 



The translation is improved, in comparison with the original, by the 

 fuller references to the places of publication of the literature quoted 

 in the foot notes and by the addition of an index of more than twelve 

 pages, even though some entries, c. g., trophobiosis, page 334, may have 

 been omitted therefrom. 



That Dr. Howard's translation will add greatly to the available' litera- 

 ture in English on this entrancing subject is evident and we wish to be 

 among the first to appreciate his labors and to offer him our thanks. 

 P. P. CALVERT. 



REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH ENTOMOLOGICAL MEETING. 

 Held at Pusa on the 7th to 12th February, 1921. Edited by T. BAIN- 

 HRIGCE FLETCHER, R. N., etc., Imperial Entomologist. Calcutta Super- 

 intendent Government Printing, India, 1921. Price Rs. 7 As. 8. 8vo. 

 pp. xli, 401, pis. Ivii. - The Proceedings of this Fourth meeting 



occupy one volume as compared with three for those of the Third 

 meeting (see the NEWS. vol. xxxii, pp. 221-222). The names of 42 

 members and 2 visitors are given as having taken part. Fifty papers 

 and reports are included, grouped as dealing with Crop Pests (21), 

 Forest Entomology (1), Medical and Veterinary Entomology (8), 

 Household and Store Pests (1). Lac C2), Life-histories and Bionomics 

 (9), Collection and Preservation (1), Systematic Entomology (2). 

 Publications (1), Miscellaneous (4). As we remarked last year also. 

 some of these articles will be useful to economic entomologists of 

 other lands as well as to those working in India. Certain other papers 

 on mosquitoes and means of checking them, on Colcoptera in the human 

 intestine (R. Senior White and K. Sen.) ; on the proportion of the 

 female forms of Papilio polytcs (by Prof. E. B. Poulton), the ovi- 



