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Insects and Human Welfare. By Charles Thomas Brues, Harvard 

 University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1920. 



The author states in the preface that "the present volume is an attempt to present 

 some of the principles and practices of economic entomology in a form that will 

 illustrate the biological relationships of insects to their environment." It contains 

 five chapters, as follows: — Introduction; Insects and the Public Health; Insects 

 and the Food Supply; Forest Insects; Household Insects; The Outlook for the 

 Future. This interesting and attractive little volume contains 104 pages, 42 text 

 figures, and is bound in red cloth. The addition of an index would have greatly 

 increased its value as a reference work. 



W. E. B. 



Report of the Proceedings of the Fourth Entomological Meeting Held 

 at Pusa, February 7- 12, 1921, Edited by T.BainbriggeFletcheb, 

 Imperial Entomologist, Government Printing Office, Calcutta, 

 India, 1921. 



The meeting reported was attended by over forty entomological workers from 

 India and Ceylon, and fifty papers read at the meeting are included in this volume. 

 Most of these papers (twenty-one) deal with crop pests, but there are eight on 

 medical and veterinary entomology, nine on life histories and bionomics, four mis- 

 cellaneous, two each on lac, and systematic entomology, one each on forest ento- 

 mology, stored grain insects, and publications. 



This report is an interesting and well printed volume of 401 pages with index, 

 and LVII plates, eight of which are colored, and a frontispiece showing those in 

 attendance at the meeting. It is bound in green board covers, with cloth back and 

 comers, and is a valuable addition to the literature of Indian entomology. 



W. E. B. 



Annales des Epiphyties. Tom.e VII, Mem.oires et Rapports, en 1919 et 

 1920. Maurice-Mendel, Editeur, Libraire Speciale Agricole de 

 rinstitut Agronomique, 58 Rue Claude-Bernard, Paris, 1921. 



This publication of 461 pages, and many figures and plates which are not numbered 

 consecutively, contains reports of researches and observations as follows: — Rapport 

 phytopathologique pour les Annees 1919-1920, par P. Marchal, Directeur de la 

 Station Entomologique de Paris, et E. Foex, Directeur de la Station de Pathologic 

 Vegetale de Paris; Etude sur les Champignons Parasites, par G. Arnaud, Sous- 

 Directeur de la Station de Pathologic de Paris; Le Criquet Marocain en Crau en 

 1920, par P. Vayssiere, Directeuradjoint de la Station Entomologique de Paris; 

 Les Traitments Simultanes contre les Maladies Crytogamiques et les Insectes 

 Parasites des Arbres Fruitiers par les Bouillies Mixtes, par A. Paillot, Directeur de 

 la Station Entomologique de Sud-Est; Essais de Bouillies Mixtes pour le Traite- 

 ment des Arbes Fruitiers, par J. Feytaud, Directeur de la Station Entomologique de 

 Bordeaux; La Fourmi d'Argentine, Iridomyrmex humilis var. arrogans Santschi, 



