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disturbed a number of the insects in various stages, from quite 
young nymphs to adults, was almost invariably dislodged, while on 
merely walking over the dump the chirping of the males could be 
heard. The dump in question, which is the product of the dust-bins 
of a large London borough, is. said originally to have been started 
thirty years ago. In view of the apparent partiality of the house- 
cricket for kitchen refuse, it is therefore not difficult to understand 
either the involuntary deportation to the country of large numbers of 
London crickets during this period, or the present size of the colony. 
It may be added that, in his ‘ Monograph of the British Orthoptera’ 
(London: Ray Society, 1920), Mr. Lucas mentions three instances 
(one in England, two in Scotland) of the occurrence of G. domesticus 
in some numbers in or near refuse dumps.—H. E. Ausvren; British 
Museum (Natural History), London, S.W. 7. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, vol. xiv, No. 2, 
November 27th, 1920, and vol. xiv, No. 3, February 8th, 1921. 
A FEw papers touch on Entomology; they are: 
1) “Fish and Mosquito Larve in Bengal, Bibar and Orissa, 
India,” by T. Southwell; pp. 181-186, 1920. 
(2, 3) ‘Observations on the Ceratopogonine Midges of the Gold 
Coast with Descriptions of New Species,’ Parts i and ii; by H. F, 
Carter, A. Ingram and J. W. 8. Macfie; pp. 187-274, with a number 
of text-figures and 5 plates, 1920. 
(4) “Further Experiments with Anopheles plumbeus, Stephens; 
its Infection with P. falciparum in England; also Notes on the 
Apparatus and Technique Employed,” by B. Blacklock and H. F. 
Carter; pp. 275-282, with 1 plate, 1920. 
(5) “Observations on the Ceratopogonine Midges of the Gold 
Coast with Descriptions of New Species,” Part ili, by H. F. Carter, 
A. Ingram, and J. W. 8. Macfie; pp. 309-331, with a number of 
text-figures, 1921. 
(6) ‘Musca inferior, Stein, Type of a New Genus of Philemato- 
myine Flies (Diptera), by Prof. M. Bezzi; pp. 333-340, 1921. 
W’. sbestes 
OBITUARY. 
WirH very great regret we have to record the death, on February 
2nd, of Dr. Tsunekata Miyake, F.E.S., aged 42 years. 
He was born on May 21st, 1880, at Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefec- 
ture, Japan. From early youth he took a special interest in 
entomology. At the age of seven years he moved to Tokyo, where 
he collected and studied insects more eagerly and got up several 
entomological books. 
After he had graduated at the Science College of the Tokyo Imperial 
University he wrote upon Lepidoptera and Neuroptera and described 
several new species, but he was widely and better known as an 
authority on Mecoptera of Japan. 
In 1917 he took his Doctor of Science by presenting a thesis, viz. 
‘Studies on the Mecoptera of Japan.” 
At the time of his lamented decease he was studying on the 
Japanese Trypaneidz. N.. Mea 
