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102. Tower, W. V.: "A New Method of preparing Wings and 

 other parts of Insects for Study." Ent. News, xvii. 218-9 

 (June, 1906). 



103. Wheeler, E. G. : "British Ticks." Journ. Agric. Sci. i. 

 400-29, plates v.-x. (March, 1906). 



104. Sorauer, p., Lindau, G.,and Eeh. L. : "Handbuch der Pfian- 

 zenkrankheiten " (New Edition), iii. 70-80, figs. 5-28 (1906). 



105. Hart, J. H. : " The Cockroach as a possible friend to the 

 Cacao Planter." Bull. Misc. Inform., Trinidad Bot. Dep., 

 No. 48, pp. 239-40 (Oct., 1905). 



In three volumes of over 1500 pages, with 834 text-figures, 

 Distant has briefly discussed (58) a part of the Oriental 

 Hemiptera, vis., the Heteroptera, Cicadidas, and Fulgoroidea of 

 India, Ceylon, &c. The volumes will be useful on account of 

 the, usually, excellent figures, each genus being figured. Further 

 details, in many cases, would, however, have been of value. 



Brown (59) notes that the weevil Amocerus fascicularis feeds 

 on Ignatius' bean {Strychninos ignatii) in the Philippine Islands. 

 Strychnine is one of the deadliest human poisons known, yet the 

 beetle actually breeds in the cavities it has bored in the seed. 



Stretch's paper (60) consists of nearly 350 figures of American 

 Arctiidae, without other letterpress than the explanations. 



The Blepharoceridae are recorded from New Zealand for the 

 first time by Chilton (61), who describes and figures some larvae. 

 The adults have not yet been reared. 



Crombrugghe de Picquendaele has catalogued (63) the 1041 

 Microlepidoptera of Belgium, with synonymy, localities, food- 

 plants, &c., while Kirkaldy has enumerated (68) the genera of 

 fifteen families of Hemiptera, with their synonymy and type- 

 species, and with references to figures. 



Schrottky (67) describes and figures a Cicadid from South 

 America with a remarkably malformed head. 



The ' Bericht ' (65-66) is the most complete (as a whole) of 

 all entomological records, but is sadly dilatory. We now have a 

 ' General Eecord ' and ' Coleoptera ' for 1904 (the ' Zoological 

 Eecord' for 1904 having long ago appeared), and the Hymeno- 

 ptera and Lepidoptera for 1901, the other orders not having 

 advanced beyond 1900. The recorder for the Introduction and 

 Coleoptera has, moreover, sacrificed completeness and accuracy 

 to (comparative !) speed, his contributions being far the least 

 satisfactory. In the ' Allgemeines,' 67 titles out of the first 148 

 (A-G), are marked as unseen, including papers in such well- 

 known channels of publication as the ' Canadian Entomologist,' 

 S. B. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin (the recorder is a German, the 

 'Bericht ' is published in Berlin!), Trans. Linnean Soc. London, 

 and the 'Entomologist'! C. S. Banks of Manila is (for the 

 recorder) identical with N. Banks of Washington, B.C. Dealing 

 with foreign tongues, it is inevitable, perhaps, that such mistakes 



