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insect which affects man directly or indirectly, and the author has been wise in 

 confining his attention to the more important species, particularly in the chapter 

 on insects and plants. 



In the chapter on human disease the recent work of Sambon on Pellagra 

 and Townsend on Verruga is referred to, and there is an interesting account of 

 the recent study of sleeping-sickness in' Rhodesia ; in the section on malaria, 

 however, no mention is made of Ross's part is ascertaining the mosquito-borne 

 character of this disease, nor is there any reference to anti-malaria work in 

 India or Africa, nor to the hill malaria of the far east. The date of the proof 

 of the connection between Stegomyia fasciata and yellow fever (1900) is referred 

 to vagtiely as "a^out that time " [1881], and the work of the U. S. Army Com- 

 mission in Cuba is not directly mentioned. In one pla.ce it is correctly stated 

 that yellow fever is only conveyed by the bite of this one species of mosquito, 

 but on p. 101 is a reference to " some species of the yellow fever mosquitoes " ; 

 on p. 103 it is incorrectly stated that the eggs of the yellow fever mosquito are 

 sometimes in rafts. On p. 1.59, through an amiising misprint, the capacity of a 

 flea's stomach is said to be half a cubic centimetre ! 



It is a pity that for so high a price as 12/- the publishers should not have 

 provided more uniformly excellent illustrations. Of many of these no com- 

 plaint can be made, but others, to a Dipterist, are distressingly crude. In spite 

 of these defects, however, the book is really valuable ; it is in general reliable 

 and ^^p-to-date, and it is justly claimed that no other covers the same ground. 



Societies. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society: Annual Meeting 

 held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt Street, Liverpool, Monday, December 21st, 

 1914. — Mr. R. Wilding, President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Vincent Fogarty, 56, Bolton Road, Ewood, near Blackburn, and 

 Wm. Buckley, 59, Roseneath Road, Urmston, near Manchester, wei-e elected 

 Members of the Society. 



The usual business of an Annual Meeting was transacted, and the following 

 Members were elected as Officers and Council of the Society for the ensuing 

 year, viz. .- — President : Prof. R. Newstead, M.Sc, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : 

 R. Wilding, J. Cotton, M.R.C.S., etc., J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., F.E.S., and 

 H. R. Sweeting, M.A. Hon. Treasurer : J. Cotton. Librarian : F. N. Pierce. 

 Hon. Secretary -. Wm. Mansbridge, F.E.S. Council -. L. West, P. F. Tinne, M.A., 

 S. P. Doudney, Wm. Webster, R. S. Bagnall, F.L.S., F.E.S., Chas. Frederick 

 Burne, J. W. Ellis, M.B., Ch.B., F.E.S., Arnold W. Hughes, and J. Collins. 



The retiring President, Mr. R. Wilding, read his address, in which he 

 reviewed the entomological events of the past year in an able and interesting 

 manner. 



Mr. F. N. Pierce exhibited and described the hitherto unrecognised species 

 of Tortricidae as follows, viz. : — Cnephasia genitalana, found in various collections 



