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Taylor (F. H.). Report of Work done during the Second Half of 



1915. — Half -Yearly Rept. Australian Inst. Trop. Med., Townsville, 

 Queensland, from 1st July to 31st December 1915, Brisbane, 1916, 

 pp. 8-10. [Received 5th October 1916.] 



The following additions were made to the collection of Australian 

 DiiDtera : — ■ 



Saecophagidae : — Sarcophaga aurifrons, Dolesch, Oestridae : — 

 Oestrus ovis, L. Anthomyidae : — Ophyra nigra, Wied. Muscidae : — 

 Calliplwra flavipes ; Anastellorhina augur, F. {C. oceaniae, R.-D.) ; 

 PoUenia stygia, F. (C villosa, R.-D.) ; Pycnosoma {C.) ruffacies, 

 Macq. ; Lucilia sericata, Meig. Tabanidae : — Sylvius frontalis, Ric. ; 

 S. Jiilli, Taylor ; S. sp. n. ; Tabanus rvfinotatus, Bigot ; T. nigritarsis, 

 Taylor ; T. mastersi, Taylor ; T. cinerescens, MacL. Culicidae : — 

 Anopheles {Alyzorhynchus) barbirostris, Wulp., var. bancrofti, Taylor ; 

 A. {Nyssorhynchus) annidipes. Walk. ; Stegomyia hilli, Taylor ; 

 S. sp. n. ; Ochlerotatus {Scutomyia) notoscri'pta, Skuse ; Macleaya 

 tremula, Theo. ; Ochlerotatus {OuUcelsa) vigilax, Skuse ; Culex sitiens, 

 Wied. ; Lophoceratomyia, sp. n. ; Uranotaenia sp. 



Male examples of Stegomyia tasmaniensis, Str., were received from 

 Tasmania. 



Ealand (C. a.). Insect Enemies. — London, Grant Richards, Ltd., 

 1916, xiii + 223 pp., 53 figs., 8vo. [Price 6s. net.] 



This book is devoted to British injurious insects and surveys the 

 more important pests of forestry, agriculture and horticulture,^as3well 

 as those of domestic animals and of stored products, with a chapter 

 on insects which are specially injurious to man himself. The intro- 

 duction, which contains a large amount of useful information, including 

 an outline of the orders of insects, should do something to diminish 

 the general apathy with which the subject of economic entomology is 

 regarded by the public. About 20 pages are given to each group of 

 pests, a few well chosen examples being selected in each case for illus- 

 tration. An appendix deals briefly with the methods of using various 

 insecticides and a bibliography, arranged according to the natural 

 orders, gives a list of more or less readily accessible works to be con- 

 sulted by those desiring further information. The index shows that 

 200 pests are mentioned in the book, a large proportion of which are 

 dealt with in the text at sufficient length to give the reader substantial 

 information as to their habits and life-history, the nature of the damage 

 caused by them and brief practical indications as to how they may be 

 best dealt with. 



This book will be found exceedingly readable even by the uninitiated 

 and the fact of its pubhcation may, it is hoped, be taken as some 

 evidence of growing public interest in a subject which so intimately 

 concerns the welfare of mankind. 



Harrison (L.). A preliminary account of the structure of the mouth- 

 parts in the body-louse. — Reprint, dated July 1916, from Proc. 

 Cambridge Phil. Soc, Cambridge, xviii, nos. 5 & 6, pp. 207-226, 

 7 figs., 1 plate. [Received 9th October 1916.] 



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