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RECENT LITERATURE. 



Insects: Foes and Friends. By W. Egmont Kikby, M.D. Preface by 

 W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S. 12mo. Pp. 138. With thirty-two 

 plates printed in colours. London : S. W. Partridge & Co. 1898. 

 As an elementary introduction to the study of Economic Entomo- 

 logy, this little volume is not without value. It has been translated 

 and adapted from a book which we are told in the preface "has had 

 a large sale in Germany." The plates are superior to some that we 

 have seen in works offered to the public at a very much higher price ; 

 and the text is in no way less trustworthy than that of the more 

 scientific manuals. 



Insect Lives as told by Themselves. By Edwakd Simpson. Small 8vo. 



Pp. 128. With twenty-three illustrations. London : The 



Religious Tract Society. (No date.) 

 In the course of a series of some nineteen chapters, the author 

 introduces several more or less familiar insects, and gives an account 

 of the life-history and other particulars connected with each one 

 as he is supposed to have ascertained them by an "interview" 

 with the creature itself. Although perhaps not exactly new, this style 

 of treatment is well chosen, as it is more likely to arrest the attention 

 of the general reader than would expression of the same facts in the 

 orthodox language of the naturalist. We gladly welcome every work 

 having for its object the popularising of the study of Entomology, and 

 we believe that the book under notice will have influence in this 

 direction. The price is merely nominal. 



Economic Entomology. 

 The Journal of the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent. 

 Pp. 58. Illustrated. London : Headley Brothers. August, 1898. 

 Contains articles by Mr. Fred. V. Theobald on insects that are in- 

 jurious to fruit and forest trees. The same observer points out that 

 " grease-banding" is of little use as a preventive against the attack of 

 the "winter moth," Cheimatobia brumata, as the females of this species 

 " are carried in copula by the males up into the trees." 



The following publications, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Division of Entomology, have been received : — 



The San Jose Scale in 1896-1897. By L. 0. Howard. Bulletin, No. 12. 

 New Series, pp. 30. Washington, 1898. 



The Periodical Cicada: an Account of Cicada septendecim, its Natural 

 Enemies, and the means of preventing its Injury ; with a Summary 

 of the Distribution of the Different Broods. By C. L. Marlatt. 

 Bulletin, No. 14. New Series, pp. 148. With frontispiece, 

 three plates, and figures in the text. Washington, 1898. 



Bibliography of the more Important Contributions to American Economic 

 Entomology. Part VI. The more important writings published 

 between June 30th, 1888, and December 30th, 1896. By Nathan 

 Banks. Pp. 273. Washington, 1898. 



