1885.] ^^^ 



prehend what was meant by " fossorial Lepidopterar The plates (the most 

 attractive part of the volume) are suggestive of Olivier (Eneyc. Method.), Chenu, and 

 Wilson (Encvc. Britannica). All Butterflies and Moths appear to be legless, and in 

 some other Orders (where neuration of wings is almost of primary importance) it is 

 only charitable to suppose the artist must accidentally have had most abnormal 

 individuals before him. An elementary text book should be modest and correct in 

 everything, because its title indicates its educational aim; nothing is so difficult to 

 eradicate as are first impressions. 

 ^ '^ Our Insect Enemies : by Theodore Wood. London : Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge. 8vo, 220-pp. 1885. 



This is a companion volume to " Our Insect Allies,"* which we had occasion to 

 notice at p. 140 of vol. xx. We consider it a considerable improvement on its pre- 

 decessor, and Its literary style is to be commended. The author evidently feels 

 himself more untrammelled in dealing with injurious insects, more able to adapt 

 himself to popular ideas, for are not all insects "injurious" from a popular point 

 of view ' Some of his reasonings are worthy of serious study. He may, we think, 

 have occasionally accepted some still disputed points as pure '' gospel," but he rejects 

 others as being probably more hypothetical than anything else The illustrations 

 are scarcely so numerous as in the volume on " allies." But all are to the po n^ 

 there is no introduction of extraneous figures for the sake of " effect." Oecasiona^y 

 they are rough. The number of books on our insect enemies is very large ; th^s 

 Jest little volume compares favourably with any of them. The author is probab y 

 wise in not taking up the position of an "expert" in econom,c entomology, bu 1 s 

 remarks on the encouragement and protection of birds should ^^ --us I - 

 and especially now, when a crusade is being advocated, almost to the 1. g ^ f e 

 termination, against the sparrow, which is no doubt an enemy, but .hich, m our 

 opinion, is equally an ally. 



©bituarij. 



Frof K WeuenUrgU died at Haariem on July 25th ; he was born in the san^e 

 P,o/.ir. "^^''" ^ I . i„ Utrecht and in Gottuigen, he 



town, on December 6th, 18i-. Alter y g Burmeister, to Buenos Ayres, 



went, under the auspices of the now venerable ^^'>':^~^' „f pordova 



and in 1872 was appointed Professor of Zoology m the ^— ^ ^, .,^ 



(Argentine Republic). Although .his Uu.vers.ty (sa.d ^^Z S. Zoological 

 \L in America, it had never ta.en a very P- » 'rt logical Society, 

 science until Weyenbcrgh's appo„.tment. He -'»W'»''^'| ^ ^ ,^^,^ 



he started a most useful publication (" Pertod.co ^^ ;«;° J^^^^ \,^ ,,,, ,,,„Us. 

 for zoological studies in h.s new home «'- ;;™°;;;^ / ; ,„„,er„ nearly all 

 More especially was he an entomologist, and h>s P""';"^* " meritorious 



Orders of Insects. A life of the «'-*-' P™7;/°'-^; "1 attached by 



results in the past, has been prematurely^rded^JWey^ 



— \ v!7^n7l)ohm in recent Nos. of the 



...Errata Eidicul.^" is the title of a .enes of PJ-^^^Lr^He" .» >;;» -™^3e1t '.Sl'S" " 

 .. stettmor entomologische .Z««"°?- "^ "i a German publiciition as "0™ !■'«=» A"«J 

 :;^lia;. Se^?o™XbeteS^ tH'Sapier i. the h„o. now under co„s>deraUon. 



