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RECENT LITERATURE. 



Text-Book of British Butterflies and Moths. By L. W. Newman and 

 H. Leeds. Pp. 1-217. St. Albans: Gibbs & Bamforth, Ltd., 

 1913. 



This very well arranged and practical handl)ook to the British 

 Lepidoptera really seems to be the last thing in collecting made easy, 

 and to the man who wishes to fill liis cabinet in the most expeditious 

 manner it is the very thing he has been looking for these many years. 

 We have been waiting a long time for something to replace " Merrin." 



The bulk of the book (pp. 16-122) consists of the Treatise — 

 hardly a well-chosen title — given in tabular form under each species 

 (English and scientific names), the time of occurrence of each stage 

 of the insect, its food-plant, and many other useful facts, including 

 localities. And it is very satisfactory to note that under this heading 

 the information afforded, though exact and often detailed, is not such 

 that it would be likely immediately to hasten the extinction of some 

 of our rarest insects. The Systematic Arrangement is a laudable 

 attempt at a difficult task — no arrangement can suit everybody's 

 ideas, but might not the author's names have been included ? The 

 list of food-plants is quite useful, and the index, the key to a book of 

 this kind, so far as tested, leaves nothing to be desired. One other 

 point — why have the butterflies been kept separate from the moths 

 throughout ? Is it for the benefit of the collector, whose interests 

 do not extend beyond the five dozen odd species to be found in these 

 Islands ? In any case, it is a serious drawback to quick reference, . 

 and might easily have been foreseen. 



The authors are to be congratulated upon so successfully carrying 



through such an arduous task; the collector, without doubt, will not 



be slow to reap the benefit. .^ ^ _, 



^ N. D. R. 



Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Series T. M. vol. vii. 

 No. 2, Liverpool, June 10th, 1913, and No. 3 a, Liverpool, 

 August 11th, 1913. 



As usual this periodical is chiefly occupied, as far as entomologists 

 are concerned, with Diptera in connection with disease. By those 

 who give attention to this subject much matter of interest \vill be 

 found. More especially concerned wdth entomology is a report by 

 the entomologist, Llewellyn Lloyd, on Gloss ina morsitans, and the 

 description by Prof. R. Newstead, P.R.S., of a new Tsetse-fly, 

 Gloss ina sever ini, from the Congo Free State. 



W. J. Lucas. 



Thirty-sixth Annual lieport and Proceedings of the Lancashire and 



Cheshire Entomological Society. Session 1912. Pp. 1-56. 



Published by the Society. 



" Ichneumons" form the subject of the Vice-President's Address 



(Mr. Claude Morley), and Mr. H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe contributes a 



paper " On Some Remarkable Associations between Ants of Different 



