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BOOK REVIEWS. 



Fletcher, J. Bainbridge. Some South Indian Insects and other animals of 

 importance, considered especially from an economic point of view. Royal 

 Octavo; pp. vii+565; 6gs. 440; pis. 50. Madras, 1914. $2.25. 



Aside from a number of short chapters on general topics, this large volume is 

 concerned mainly with an eniuneration of the more important economic insects 

 of southern India. Under each species the information is arranged in short para- 

 graphs dealing with the distribution, life-history, food-plants, status, control and 

 natural enemies. Almost without exception each species is figured either by black 

 and white text-figures or by colored figures arranged on plates; the latter, many 

 of which have already appeared in other Indian governmental publications, are 

 uniformly well executed and usually illustrate the developmental stages and injury 

 in addition to the adult insects. The quality and the text figures are variable, 

 some are good, but a few like those of the smaller parasitic h\Tnenoptera and fleas 

 are very crude. 



The carefully systematized arrangement of the descriptive matter should make 

 the text extremely useful not only to economic entomologists in India, but it will 

 place in available form much information of great value to the agricultural popu- 

 lation. To the latter, the list of crops with their attendant pests which occupies 

 over twenty pages of the book will be especially welcome. 



