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11. Pomona JournaL or Entomonocy I.: pp. 1-25, fs. 1-25 
(March, 1909). 
12. Pounton, E. B.: ‘‘ Hssays on Evolution, 1889-1907,” pp. 
l-lviii and 1-479. (Oxford, 1908.) 
13. Newcoms, W. W.: ‘A Summer with Chrysophanus dorcas, 
Kirby,’ Can. Ent. xli. 221-9 (July 7th, 1909). Lepidoptera. 
14. Maxwewu-Lerroy, H.: ‘“ Eri or Castor Silk,’ Agr. J. India, 
iv. 125-33, pls. 6-18 (April, 1909). Lepidoptera. 
15. Wauron, W. R.: ‘An Ilustrated Glossary of Chetotaxy and 
Anatomical Terms used in Describing Diptera,” Ent. News. 
xx. 807-19, pls. 183-16 (July, 1909). 
Miyake (1) describes a new species from Japan of the 
Noctuid genus Latirostrum, and remarks, ‘‘ Baron Takachiho 
captured the moth in a forest on Mount Hikosan, one of the high- 
est mountains in Kiushiu. He says the moth was resting on a 
leaf of a certain tree, with its long palpi extended forwards so as 
to imitate a spine in a very perfect manner, and he supposes 
that when it settles on a branch of a tree it may pass unobserved 
even by keen eyes, showing us the significance of the long palpi 
of this species.” ‘The same author (2) revises the Japanese 
Arctiane, enumerating, with synonymy, thirty-two species, with 
a table of distribution ; six species are figured, the larve of nine 
briefly described, and the food-plants of several listed, no less 
than seven being harboured by mulberry. Three new species 
are described, the previously known forms haying apparently 
been described at length in Japanese in the extra-reports of the 
Imperial Agr. Sta. 22 (1906). 
Lovell (7) reviews the subject of colour-sense in insects with 
relation to flowers. His paper is not very amenable to summari- 
sation, but, briefly, his results confirm the usual generally adverse 
position to Plateau’s opinions. 
Japha (8) discusses the ‘ defiance-attitude’’ of Smerinthus 
ocellatus, with a coloured plate. Kosminsky (4) discusses the 
influence of external conditions on Lepidoptera. Blunk (5) 
deals with colour variation in Dytiscus. 
A new entomological periodical has appeared in California 
(11); the first number deals principally with Aphidide and 
Coccide. 
It is surprising not to have seen a review in the ‘ Entomo- 
logist’’ of Poulton’s collection of Essays on Evolution (12) ; 
these are partly reprints of papers read or delivered before vari- 
ous meetings, but also largely new, the greater part being 
directly or indirectly connected with entomology, the following 
especially: ‘‘ Thomas Henry Huxley and the theory of Natural 
Selection’ (pp. 1938-219); ‘‘Natural Selection the Cause of 
Mimetic Resemblance and Common Warning Colours ” (220-70) ; 
‘‘Mimicry and Natural Selection’’ (271-92); ‘The Place of 
Mimicry in Scheme of Defensive Coloration ” (293-382) ; with a 
