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case the insect itself, with the characteristic injury caused to bhe tree or slmil> on 



which it feeds, is illustrated by one or more figures from various sources, and of vary- 

 ing degrees of excellence, but on the whole very good and adequate for the purposes 

 of recognition. At pp. 186-8 we find an interesting account of the (until recently) 

 very rare sawfly Nematus erichsoni, Hartig, which became a serious pest to the larch 

 in Cumberland in 1906 ; and in Chapter VII, dealing with the Lepidoptera under 

 the restricted title of " Moths," is a full description of another larch pest, the 

 Tineid Argyresthia Isevigatella, H.-S., a species not yet included in our lists, but 

 which has within the last year been recognised as inflicting serious and characteristic 

 injury to the tree in Northumberland, as well as near Oxford and in other parts of 

 the country. Useful hints on collecting, preparing, and mounting insects are given 

 in Chapter XI, and Chapter XII deals with insecticides and general remedies ; 

 while the list of forest and fruit-trees and shrubs, with the injurious insects affecting 

 them, brings into a very concise tabular form the nature of the injuries caused by 

 each pest. Of necessity a large portion of the work is compiled from many sources, 

 which in all cases are duly acknowledged, and we may congratulate the author on 

 the clear and methodical way in which he has presented his subject. To all who 

 are practically concerned with arboriculture and forest management , as well as to 

 those wishing to know something of the relations between our trees and their 

 associated insects, we strongly recommend this book, of which the excellence of the 

 general " get up " is guaranteed by the name of the publishers. 



Thirty-Fiest Annual Report and Proceedings of the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Entomological Society, Session 1907. St. Albans : Printed by 

 Gibbs and Bamforth, Ltd. 



The report for last year of this energetic and flourishing Association, besides 

 presenting an excellent portrait of our esteemed correspondent Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, 

 embodies two papers of exceptional value, especially to students of our British 

 Coleoptera. The Annual Address, by the Vice-President, Dr. J. Harold Bailey, 

 deals with the Coleoptera of the Isle of Man, a locality of unique interest from 

 a faunistic point of view. Besides the excellent general account, of the Manx 

 beetles, some 680 species of which have been recorded up to the present time, the 

 details of the climate, geology, and botany of the Island, and the deductions of the 

 author as to the derivation of its Coleopterous fauna, will be welcomed by Entomo- 

 logists as a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject. Of equal value 

 is the exhaustive list of " The Coleoptera of Lancashire and Cheshire," by W. E. 

 Sharp, F.E.S. The compiler of this List, after an excellent resume of the probable 

 derivation of our British beetle-fauna, and of the physiography of the two counties, 

 does full justice to the good work of the io-called " Lancashire School " of Entomo- 

 logists, in whose ranks were included some of the best working Coleopterists of 

 the last half-century. The number of species recorded as occurring within the area 

 is 1486, or about 45 per cent, of the total number included in the list of British 

 beetles ; while the writer has evidently not been limited as to space, as too often 

 happens with lists of this kind, and has thus been able to give full and valuable 

 details respecting many of the most interesting forms. It may well be said that 

 this catalogue may be taken as a model for any other that may be forthcoming, and 

 that it should be in the hands of every Coleopterist in our Islands. 



