1922. Stelfox. — Bees and Clovers. 91 



All my specimens from the Murrough, which include 

 both sexes, proved also to be A. kitaria. It is, therefore, 

 interesting that of the four English Ammophilas we only 

 know the rarest of them to occur in Ireland. My specimens 

 were all taken between Killoughter and Newcastle, at 

 places where breaks in the sward occurred and low sandy 

 banks faced southwards. Near Killoughter and also close 

 to the Coastguard Station south of Newcastle I captured 

 a new Irish insect, a Plant Bug, Therapha hyoscyami, L., 

 a brilliant scarlet and black insect whose distribution in 

 England is given by Saunders as mainly coastal from Wales 

 on the west to Yarmouth on the east. Mr. Halbert kindly 

 named the Therapha for me. 



Rathgar, Dublin. 



REVIEWS. 



IRISH GEOGRAPHY. 



The Provinces of Ireland. Edited by G, Fletcher, F.G.S. Ulster, 

 186 pp., 6s. 6d. ; Leinster, 23G pp., ys. 6d.; Munster, 176 pp., 6s. 6d.; 

 CoNNAUGHT, 171 pp., 6s. 6d. Cambridge University Press, 1922. 



The Editor, Mr. George Fletcher, in a preliminary note, tells us that 

 the object of this series is to give an account of the physical features 

 of Ireland and of the economic and social activities of its people. This 

 conforms very closely to the aim of the modern geographer, who seeks 

 above all things to bring about a realisation that Geography is a real, 

 Hve thing, exercising an almost supreme directing influente upon the 

 development of social and economic life. 



That this is being gradually recognised is evidenced by the change 

 that has taken place in the presentation of geographical matter to the 

 student and to the public. No longer are we bored by long lists of 

 meaningless names — always obtainable with greater accurac}^ and facility 

 from any railway or steamship guide — or by the enumeration of cut- 

 and-dried facts, seldom interesting, often inaccurate, and never clothed 

 with the flesh and blood of living reality. 



To-day we seek to know the causes that have given rise to the delicate 

 and intricate social and economic structure of which -we form a part. 

 The geographer seeks to discover these causes, believing that physical, 

 geological and climatic conditions are the soils in wliich have been generated 

 and developed men's thoughts and actions throughout all time. For 

 these reasons we welcome this Series, believiaig that the more such books 

 are studied, the nearer we are to a true understanding of past events 

 and the more definite will be our dreams for the future and the more 

 practical the methods by which they may be translated into actual fact. 



