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larvae in their little cases which had emerged from a large case (cocoon) 

 from Lugano, with some larvae of the firefly, Luciola italica. Breeding 

 OP Crioceuis species. — Mr. Blair, bred specimens of the beetles 

 Crioceris ULii [iiicrdiijera, F.), end of C. ineniif/erq [hninnea, F.), the 

 larvae of the former on lilies of the latter on black bryony. Mr. 

 Priske, living larvfe and pupae of the beetle ]\[dasoiiia popKli. Exhibit 

 OF Saturniids. — Mr. Morford, the large Saturniids, Vhilosamia c]inthia 

 and Antheraea perneyi. A ctiRious gall growth on willow. — Mr. 

 Step, on behalf of Mr. West (Greenwich), a large mass of aberrant 

 growth of twigs of willow, apparently caused by a species of gall. 



JiliEYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



A Natural History of Bournemouth and District. By *the 

 members of the Natural Science Society. Published by the Society. 

 400 pp., 3 maps, and 19 plates. Price half-a-crown. Sold by Bright's, 

 Ltd., The Arcade, Bournemouth. — This volume is very strong evidence 

 of the valuable stimulus given to the work of local Science Societies 

 by the organisation known as the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies. As already noted, the Union held their annual Congress at 

 Bournemouth, in June last, by invitation of the Mayor and Corpora- 

 tion. This visit gave the members of the local Natural Science 

 Society an opportunity not only to bring their Society's work before 

 the general public, but to issue the present volume as a record of the 

 natural peculiarities of Bournemouth and its surrounding neighbour- 

 hood. 



More than half the book is pure natural history, zoology, botany, 

 and geology, while another section deals with topography. The work 

 is not a list of names m.erely for reference, but every chapter is quite 

 readable by any lover of nature. Each section of a chapter is written 

 by a specialist ; no less than twenty-six different authors have con- 

 tributed one or more articles under the able editorship of Sir Daniel 

 Morris, K.C.M.G., the present President of the Society. One of the 

 contributors to our pages, Mr. Parkinson Curtis, F.E.S., is responsible 

 for the section devoted to the consideration of Lepidoptera and of 

 Spiders, and also, in conjunction Avith his brother, Mr. Barker Curtis, 

 for that contributed on Bird Life. Since the area described contains 

 such well-known entomological localities as the Isle of Purbeck and 

 the New Forest, the information given, not only in the purely natural 

 history sections, but also in those devoted to Topography, will be of 

 great value to students of nature visiting West Hampshire or East 

 Dorset. We are reminded that Lampides boetictis, Everes argiades, 

 Aqriades coridon ab. syntjrapha, and ab. fowleri, Tliymelicus acteon, 

 Phryxus livornica, Coscinia crihrum, Deiopeia pidchella, Steriha sacraria, 

 Anthrocera meliloti, etc., have or do occur in this favoured and varied 

 area. Of the Microlepidoptera but little mention is made : " many 

 species have been added to the British list from the Bournemouth 

 district. Several have been made known to science." Apparently 

 much remains to be done in this group, and this is work which can be 

 undertaken with little efiect by the visitor, but must be carried out by 

 a "scientific study of the locality," only possible to a resident. The 

 volume concludes with a very full index of thirty-six pages and a most 

 useful bibliography. This is one of the most interesting of books 



