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valuable treatises on Indian Entomology as viewed chiefly from the economic 

 standpoint, which in recent years have been issued under the auspices of the 

 Government of India. The name of the author is a guarantee for the scientific 

 soundness of the work, and the first nine chapters form a very clear and concise 

 introduction to the general subject of Entomology. Chapters X-XXIII deal 

 in considerable detail with the practical and economic aspects of the science' 

 and embody a large amoimt of interesting general information respecting the 

 noxious and beneficial insects of the region, and incidentally of other animals 

 by whose presence the operations oi the agriculturist may be affected ; a very 

 complete and useful table of the usual Indian crops and their insect enemies 

 being given on pp. 240-268. The second and larger half of the book is devoted 

 to a separate detailed accoiint, \ander the headings of Distribution, Life-History 

 Food, Status (as a pest or otherwise) and Control, of a very large number of 

 insects affecting agriculture in South India. Every species referred to is illus- 

 trated by text-figures, the separate headings of these, mostly including two or 

 more subjects, numbering 330, and the text-figures in the introductory part of 

 the work bring the total up to 440. All these figures are very adequate, and in 

 many cases, especially in the Coleo'ptera, are of high excellence. With one or 

 two exceptions, the same may be said of the fifty plates by native artists, 

 reproduced by the "three-colour" process. A niunber of these plates were 

 already available from other Indian Groverument publications, and this fact has 

 enabled this well-printed and well-wi'itten book, on which we heartily congratu- 

 late the author, to be issued at an exceedingly low price. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Meeting held at 

 the Eoyal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, Monday, November I6th, 1914. — 

 Mr. R. Wilding, President, in the Chair. 



Dr. W. J. Fordham, The Villa, Bubwith, near Selby, was elected a Member 

 of the Society. 



The subject for the evening, entitled " The most interesting I'ield 

 Observations made dvu-ing the last Season," gave rise to a discussion which was 

 entered into by most of the Members present. 



Mr. R. Wilding brought his collection of the genus Bembidium ( Coleoptera) 

 and made descriptive remarks xipon the occurrence and peculiarities of each 

 species, particiilarly mentioning the following, viz. : — Bembidium o-striatum, 

 B.fumigatum, B. schuppeli, B. nigricorne, B. stomoides, B.lunatum, B. testaceum, 

 B. anglicanum, B. jiuviatile, B. prasinum, B. adustum, and B. argenteolum. 

 Mr. A. W. Hughes exhibited a yellow variety of Euchelia jacohaeae, a series of 

 Epinephile janira including an example with strongly pupillate spots on the 

 upper side of the hind-wings, also a specimen of Agriopis aprilina taken at 

 sugar on the Crosby sandhills. Mr. W. Mansbridge, the following Micro 

 Lepidoptera, viz. : — Tortrlx pronubana, bred from larvae found in the palm-house 



