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by our old friend Geo. B. Routledge, t'.E.S., and (2) The Coleoptera 

 of Cumberland, Part II., by our old correspondent, Frank II. Day, 

 F.E.S. Both these contributions are continuations of what was 

 begun in the previous volume in 1909, and comprise not only the 

 results of many years' personal work, but a summary of all records 

 hitherto published, as well as many items of general biological interest. 

 Mr. H. Britten, F.E.S. , contributes an article on the " Spiders of 

 Cumberland," and T. S. Johnstone one on " Plant Life around 

 Carlisle," while a very sympatLetic memoir of the late Rev. H. A. 

 Macphcrson, M.B.O.U., who by his enthusiasm for Natural History 

 helped to place this Society in the forefront of local organisations, is 

 added by Linnteus E. Hope. 



We hear that our old contributor, T. Bainbrigge-Fletcher, who for 

 some time has been Officiating Imperial Entomologist at Pusa, under 

 the Agricultural Department of India, in place of Professor H. 

 Maxwell-Lefroy, who has been away on leave, has recently been trans- 

 ferred to Coimbatore as Entomologist to the Government of Madras, 

 and Professor of Entomology in the Agricultural College and Research 

 Institute. 



We also hear that Professor Maxwell-Lefroy has been offered and 

 has accepted a post of Professor of Entomology in England, 

 and will be leaving India at the end of the present year. This will 

 presumablv mean a return of Professor Bainbrigge-Fletcher, to Pusa, 

 as Imperial Entomologist, a post to which his conspicuous ability and 

 experience recommend him. 



Many insects, which we in this country look upon with much toler- 

 ance and which only at intervals are inimical to our agriculturists, when 

 transferred to other climes where their struggle for existence is an easy 

 one and where the balance is strongly in their favour, become a very 

 serious item for economical consideration. Of such are Pieris brassicae, 

 (j-alleria mellonella and Calandraorijzae. All these three British insects 

 find a congenial clime in India and multiply apace to such an extent 

 as often to be a serious menace to the crops of the needy native 

 agriculturists. The authorities of the government of India have long 

 tried to cope with the insect trouble, and numerous colleges and 

 experimental stations have been established, with the object of 

 disseminating knowledge of the life-historits of the various pests, and 

 to suggest adequate means of attacking these minute enemies at the 

 most vulnerable period of their existence. We have just received some 

 half a dozen pamphlets from the pen of Professor Bainbrigge-Fletcher, 

 reprinted from the Agricultural Journal of India. (1) " The Cabbage- 

 white Butterfly {Pii'ris hramcac)," (2) " The Wax-moth {GalUria 

 ludlonclla) " and (3) " The Rice Weevil {i\tllandraorijzae) " treat of these 

 three insects in detail as to their life-history and give various methods 

 of dealing with them in bulk. The pamphlets are illustrated by very 

 well executed coloured plates. Two other pamphlets deal with (1) " The 

 Moth-borer {Chilo Hiw/dex)," one of the smaller moths, the larvte of 

 which bore into the living stems of the sugar-cane, maize, eic, and 

 often cause enormous damage ; (2) " The Cane and Rice Grasshopper 

 {IJin-o'jli/iiliiiti banian)," which in its young stage feeds on the tender 

 shoots of the young growth of millet, sugar-cane, rice, etc. ; and 

 [S) "The Potato-moth [I'thoriinaea [Lita) opcrcnlclla {nolanella) ] ," 

 which appears to be a recent arrival in India, although only too well 



