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in the family, in the way of a more scientific arrangement of the genera, 

 evidently has been apparent to the author, but having had little occasion to 

 study other than the Danish genera, he does not attempt to deal with the 

 subject, but gives us the information that there is the possibility of its 

 receiving attention in the near future at the hands of that experienced 

 Dipterologist, Mr. Th. Becker, of Liegnitz. The 130 figures are mainly of wings 

 and antennas, the many beautiful characters to be found in the legs and geni- 

 talia being very seldom figured. It is interesting to compare the fauna of 

 Denmark and Britain, for in many respects it is remarkably similar; in the 

 present volume there is no Danish genus described that does not also occur in 

 Britain, while we have seven genera (Orthochile, Bhaphium, Melanostolus, 

 Telmaturgus, Lamprochromus, Micromorphus and Aphrosylus) and about 88 

 species not at present found in Denmark. On the other hand, 23 species are 

 described from Denmark that are at present unknown in Britain, but of these 

 it is almost certain that Teuchophorus signatus, Zett., is identical with our 

 T.pectinifer, Kow., for an examination of a co-type of this latter proves that the 

 supposed differences mentioned by Lundbeck do not exist. The publication of 

 these volumes should give a great impetus to the study of Diptera in Denmark, 

 and it is to be hoped that Mr. Lundbeck may long be spared to continue 

 the series. 



" Fabre, Poet of Science," by Dr. C. V. Legros, with a preface by J. H. 

 Fabre: translated by Bernard Miall. London and Leipsic : T. Fisher Unwin. 

 8vo, pp. 352. 1913. An English translation of the life of this famous veteran 

 naturalist, as portrayed by his intimate friend, Dr. Legros, was much wanted, 

 and we can commend Mr. MialFs excellent translation to our readers. The 

 subject is divided into sixteen chapters by the French author, and the source 

 of his information is given in the "Notes" on pp. 331 — 347 of the translation. 

 The letters addressed by Fabre to his brothers during the years spent as 

 schoolmaster at Carpentras and Ajaccio are especially instructive in respect of 

 the almost unknown years of his youth, these giving a fine illustration of his 

 marvellous energy and disinterested labour. The subsequent chapters teem 

 with observations on the habits of the insects, etc., so patiently watched, and so 

 charmingly described, by him. An excellent heliogravure portrait of Fabre is 

 appended. 



" The Life of the Fly," with which are interspersed some Chapters of 

 Autobiography by J. Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de 

 Mattos, F.Z.S. London, New York, Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton, 8vo, 

 pp. XI and 508. 1913. 



The present volume is stated to contain all the essays on Flies, or Diptera, 

 from the " Souvenirs Entomologiques," the purely autobiographical essays com- 

 prised in the " Souvenirs," and a chapter on the Caddis-worm. The term ' fly, 5 

 therefore, is used in a very elastic sense in this book, and the translator's note, 

 on p. 5, that the Cicada, or Cigale, is an insect akin to the grasshopper, seems 



