168 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
garden can obtain many prizes in the scarce forms of Abraaas 
grossulariata, as well as from a scientific point of view contribute to 
our knowledge if he cares to breed from selected parents. In lanes 
bordered with old hawthorn hedges the common but variable tortrices, 
Peronea variegana, Tortria ribeana, and Teras contaminana, otfen 
absolutely swarm, and furnish many beautiful specimens for the 
cabinet. Among the warehouses of our manufacturing towns many 
species are to be obtained in profusion, and scarcely in any other 
way. Many of the genera Ephestia, Blabophanes, and Tinea are 
thus to be found ; and where electric lamps can be worked such area 
veritable mine of insect wealth as at Chester, where, some time ago, 
a species new to science, Scoparta vafra, Mey., was so captured. At 
the present time, however, such a method as collecting at light is 
practically out of the question, yet it is surprising to what a small 
light moths will sometimes be attracted. The paper was followed by 
an animated discussion, and it was resolved to make suburban insects 
a feature of the exhibitional meeting at the opening of the next 
session in October.—Wwmn. Manssripnae, Hon. Sec. 
4c 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
The Practical Principles of Plain Photo-micrography. By G. Wssv. 
4s. 6d. net. Dundee: Campbell and Sons, 1916. 
THis is a rather sumptuous quarto of 146 pages, printed in good type 
on good paper, but withal in a paper cover. Our author commences very 
suitably with suggestions and hints on photography in general, and 
proceeds to the apparatus required for the subject in hand. While he 
discusses the making of some of the apparatus, the description of his 
own fittings seem to savour of somewhat unnecessary expense. Next 
we are favoured with the author’s arrangement for work (i) with a 
landscape camera, (ii) without a camera, and (iii) with a vertical 
photo-micrographic camera. Thus far the illustrations are a solar 
spectrum and colour chart, three pictures of microscopes, one of a 
vertical camera (four of Baker’s advertisements, we fear), and plans 
of the arrangement employed by the author for his first and second 
methods. In a number of places illustrations and diagrams are called 
for, and their absence detracts (we are bound to say) from the many 
merits of the book. True there are twelve very interesting photo- 
graphs (described in the text) of the results of the author’s work, 
which add considerably to the appearance of the book,.but scarcely 
help a novice, as simple diagrams would have done, in his struggles 
to produce a good negative. The interesting dialogue between ‘‘ Old 
Surefoot’’ and “ Young Castlebuilder’’ should be of much value to 
the latter, though perhaps the method of question and answer is 
somewhat out of date. The chapters on photographic necessities 
and chemicals, which look formidable but contain many superfluities, 
will well repay study, while the formule and list of text-books will 
be very convenient for reference. The book is a most useful one, and 
carefully written, as we should expect from a lecturer in Botany at 
St. Andrew’s University. If this were not the case it would not be 
worth while referring to points in which we think it could be improved. 
