164 iJuiy. 



tlieir various stages, and we woiild call special attention to the figure of 

 Agriades thetis at rest on a plantain-head (plate xliii, fig. 8), as quite the most 

 beavitiful example of this kind of work we have ever seen, thoiigh it is rivalled, 

 if not eqvialled, by that of Cyaniris semiargus on plate liii. The very in- 

 teresting series of essays on " Family Habits of Butterfly LarviB " (pp. 1-40) 

 dealing with those of the Chrysophanids, Urbicolids, and Papilionids, are 

 brought to a conclusion in this voliune, and we would say a final word in 

 commendation of the excellent and exhaustive " Special Index " compiled by 

 Mr. H. J. Turner.— J. J. W. 



A Synopsis or the Orthopteea op Western Europe : by Malcolm 

 Burr, D.Sc, F.L.S., &q. London : Oliver Janson, 44, Great Russell Street 

 W.C. 1910. 



Dr. BiuT is to be congTatulated on this important contribution to the 

 literature of a somewhat " neglected " Order of Insects, on which he has by 

 universal consent been long recognised as the foremost authority in oiir 

 coiuitry. In this well got-up little volume of 160 pages he has brought 

 together liis notes on the Orthoptera of Eiu'ope occiuTing to the west of the 

 Carpathians, which have appeared at frequent intervals since 1903 in the 

 " Entomologist's Record." As compared with our own rather meagre Orthop- 

 terous fauna, the number of species that have been foiuid in this region, 

 especially in the Iberian Peninsula, will be rather suii^rising to the student 

 of exclusively British insects, and the book is issued in the hope that entomo- 

 logically inclined tourists on the Continent may be induced to pay some 

 attention to this very interesting Order, and that it may help them in 

 determining their captiu-es. For this latter pui-pose, the brief but lucid 

 diagnoses (in English) of each insect, and especially the very clear and simple 

 tables of genei-a and species, will be found most useful ; and copious lists of 

 localities, with occasional interesting biononiic notes, are also given. As it is 

 not always easy to make " good specimens " of Orthoptei'ovis insects when 

 captured, we should have been glad if the accomplished author could have 

 included a few practical hints on this point, as well as on methods of collecting. 

 This omission may, however, be supplied in a futxu*e issue of the work ; and we 

 would add that it is broiight fully up to date, and that most desirable featiu-e, 

 a copious and well arranged Index, is dvdy provided. 



Illustrations of Disease-carrying Mosquitoes from the Liverpool 

 School op Tropical Medicine (Propaganda North Brazilian Division) : by 

 R. Newstead, F.E.S. 



We have received, by the courtesy of oiu* coiTespondent, Mr. R. Newstead, 

 several very beautifully executed coloiu-ed figures from his own drawings, 

 representing on an enlai'ged scale, certain mosquitoes known to be agents in 

 the conveyance of disease to man in Tropical South America. These include 

 the Anopheline Cellia argyrotarsus, an important carrier of " malaria," and the 

 now notorious " Tiger Mosquito " Stegomyia calopus, to whose bite the infection 

 of yellow fever has been definitely traced. Each of these figiu'es, which are 

 printed on cards of the International Postal Union, is accompanied by a concise 



