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known from India, Ceylon, Andaman Islands, Burma, and Java ; but it has not 

 been recorded from the Seychelles or any of the other groups of islands in the 

 vicinity, and no other specimen of it was obtained by the Percy Sladen Trust 

 Expedition. Platte Island is a small coral-island about 80 miles due S. of 

 Mahe, Seychelles, and the latter group are 1500 miles S.W. of Indial. 



"Common Beetles of our Country-side," by W. E. Sharp, F.E.S. 

 London : S. W. Partridge & Co., Ltd., Old Bailey. 



The beginner in the study of our native Lepidoptera is more fortunate than 

 the " incipient " Coleopterist in having the choice of a much larger number of 

 cheap and often well-written books dealing with the rudiments of his subject ; 

 and the attractive little work now under notice will be welcomed by the latter 

 class of Entomologists as being exactly adapted to their needs. The name of 

 our valued correspondent is a guarantee of the soundness and accuracy of the 

 work, wherein he takes us into the haunts of his favourite Order of Insects — 

 the coimtry lane, the fields, the woods, the downs, the moorlands, the waters, 

 the mountains, and the sea-coast — and in a pleasant and gossipy style discourses 

 of the characteristics and habits of such of their beetle inhabitants as may be 

 found by a beginner with ordinary good luck. The more advanced collector 

 will find much that will interest him, especially in the excellent chapters on 

 " Beetles dependent on other Insects," and *' Beetles dependent on Mammals 

 and Birds." The sixteen photographic plates (four in colour) are on the whole 

 good as regards the larger forms represented, but the process fails to some extent 

 with the more minute species. The figures of many of these are quite in- 

 adequate, and such insects would have been much better represented by good 

 outline figures suitably enlarged and reproduced as line blocks in the text. 

 Apart from this slight drawback, we may with confidence recommend this 

 unpretending little book, which is published at a very low price, to all who are 

 interested in the study of our native Coleoptera. 



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Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, February 2nd, 1916. — 

 The Hon. N. Charles Eothschild, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Messrs. Frederick Laing, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, S.W. ; 

 Robert Latta, D.Phil., Professor of Logic, University of Glasgow ; Arthur 

 Raymond Palmer, Ingleholme, Norton Way, Letchworth, Herts, and Telseti 

 Ramachandra Rao, M.A., Assistant Govt. Entomologist, Agriculture College, 

 Coimbatore, India, were elected FelloAvs of the Society. 



The President announced that he had nominated Dr. T. A. Chapman, 

 Dr. C. J. Gahan, and Commander J. J. Walker as the Vice-Presidents for the 

 current year. 



