102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Coleopiera have been imported and naturalised, and have 

 occasionally multiplied to a sufficient extent to produce 

 serious mischief; but these are chiefly Cucujidce, Bruchidce, 

 Dermestidce, Pti/iidcc, Calandridce, &.C., and their ravages 

 are almost exclusively limited to granaries, hide or fur stores, 

 and other places under cover. I am not aware of any 

 imported Coleopterous insect having ever multiplied to the 

 same degree when exposed to an out-door life, and the 

 influences of our wet and variable climate ; and the chief 

 ravages of the Doryphora are committed upon the field crops 

 during the growing season, not upon the stored produce. 

 — J. A. Power. 



REVIEW. 



Economic Entomology. By Andrew Murray, F.L.S. — 

 Aptera. — Prepared at the request of the Lords of the 

 Committee of Council on Education. London : Chap- 

 man & Hall. 



Amongst the oldest inhabitants of the Bethnal Green 

 Museum is the collection illustrative of Economic Ento- 

 mology. When the branch museum shot out from its 

 parent stem at South Kensington, this collection was among 

 the first of the objects to travel eastwards ; and, let us hope, 

 has not proved the least attractive or least useful of its 

 contents. To this was subsequently added types of the 

 Lepidoptera taken within a radius of ten miles from Bethnal 

 Green. These were presented by the Haggerston Ento- 

 mological Society ; and now the museum contains the 

 far-famed Doubleday Collection of Lepidoptera. These, 

 with a fine series of exotic Coleoptera and silk-producing 

 insects, also removed from South Kensington, form quite an 

 entomological feature in this industrial and educational 

 institution. 



In reviewing Mr. Murray's book it is necessary to draw 

 attention to this economic collection. Few, indeed, in this 

 country, are the exponents of Natural History in its applied 

 or practical relations, compared with those of continental 

 nations, — notably Germany and Sweden. The collection at 

 Bethnal Green — that of Economic Botany from Kew, and 

 other South Kensington collections — will, we hope, form the 



