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to liave elapsed in one case l)»;fore the beetle, presnniably a larva of a Lampro- 

 phorus, ceased to feed on the then decomposed and putrid Hesh of tlie snail ! 

 The swarminu of white ants (Termites), and tlieir destruction by birds, sixteen 

 species of which were seen joining the common feast at one nest, and remarks 

 on the ingenious construction of the pits of ant-lions ( Myrmelconidae), bring 

 the insect observatious to a close. The remainder of the book, apart from a 

 long account of the instinct, etc., of spiders, is reduced to notes on Mammals, 

 Birds, and Mollusca. The tirst chapter, however, gives a vivid description of 

 the vegetation, etc., of a vallej^ in Southern Ilazara at all times of the year, 

 and the last is devoted to a Geological Sketch. The Coleopterist will perhaps 

 be disfippointed to find that the only beetle referred to in the work is a Lct7)i- 

 pyris. The extremely careful and patient observations of the author in this 

 western region of the Himalaya will well repay reading, though we may not 

 agree with his conclusions in every case. 



" ENCYCLOrEDIE SCIENTIFIQUE, PUBLI^E SOUS LA DIRECTION PU 



Dr. Toulouse. Les Insectes : Anatomie et Physiologie GENERAr.ES." 

 Second Edition; Par C. Houlbert. Pp. xii-1-374, with 207 text-figures- 

 Paris : Libraire Octave Uoin, 1920. Price 8 (broche) or 10 (cartonnt5 toile) 

 francs. 



This useful little work, one of a series dealing with zoological subjects, is 

 an introduction to the sludy of Economic Biology, the present edition having 

 been revised and corrected. TJie commencing pages are devoted to a History 

 of Entomologv, and the sections of the rest of the work are headed Morpho- 

 logie externe, Fonctions de nutrition, relations, et reproduction, Enibryogenie, 

 Biologie g^n^rale des larves, Eutomologie ecouomique, and Entomologie 

 appliqu6e. In the Introduction are given portraits of seven well-known ento- 

 mologists : Latreille, Rambur, Perris, Lacordaire, Boisduval, Gueuee, and 

 Fabre, reproduced from the "Etudes d'Entomologie" by permission of 

 M. Charles Oberthiir. There are few, if any, English works of this kind, 

 though several by American writers are well known to us. 



Till-: South [.oNnoN ICnto.mological and Natural History Society: 

 September i)f/i, 1920. — ^Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. J, Farmer, of Brixton, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Bowman exhibited a series of the spring-emerged half of a brood of 

 Ejjhyra porata from ova, and remarked on their close resemblance to tlie allied 

 £. puiictan'n. jMr. Main, larvae of three parasites (Hymen.) which attacked the 

 Longicorn (Col.) Rhayium inquisitvr in Eppiiig Forest. Mr. Turner, many- 

 species of Heterocera taken by Mr. Grosvenor in India, chiefly at Bangalore, 

 including Attacas edwardsi, Trabala vishmi, Crishna macrups, Zygaena cash- 

 inirensis, etc. Mr. II. Moore, Midilla europaea (Hymen.) from Bournemouth, 

 with other Mutilla species from Egypt, Upper Amazons, Indiana, and the 



