490 Bibliographical Notices. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL .NOTICES. 

 A Handbook of British Mosquitoes. By William Dickson Lang. 



Pp. 125 & pis. i.-v. Londou : printed by Order of the Trustees 



of the British Museum. 1920. 

 This Handbook gives an account of the twenty-one species of 

 mosquito inhabiting the British Islands, illustrated by 132 excellent 

 text-figures and 5 coloured plates ; the latter represent the females 

 of Anopheles maculipennis (the common malaria-conveying mosquito 

 of Europe), bifurcatus, and plumbeus, and Ochlerotatus caspius and 

 nemorosus. Nine genera are enumerated, and the earlier stages, as 

 well as the imago, of most of the species are described and figured 

 in detail. A. maculipennis, it may be observed, is stated to be 

 abundant in Britain, wherever breeding conditions are suitable, and 

 the larva has even been found in brackish-water dykes on the coast 

 of Kent. 



The price charged for the Handbook is unfortunately high, due 

 to the great cost of illustrations and printing at the present time, 

 and this may to some extent restrict the sale of a very useful 

 publication. 



Barbados -Antigua Expedition. — Narrative and Preliminary Report 

 of a Zoological Expedition from the University of Iowa to the 

 Lesser Antilles under the auspices of the Graduate College. By 

 Prof. C. C. Nutting. University of Iowa Studies in Natural 

 History. Yol. VIII. No. 3. Iowa City : year of publication not 

 given [? 1920], Preface dated May 5th, 3 919. Pp. 274 & pis. 1. 

 This work, as stated in the Preface, is intended as a companion 

 volume to the ' Narrative and Preliminary Report of the Bahama 

 Expedition from the State University of Iowa,' published in 1895. 

 The islands visited by the present expedition were St. Thomas, 

 St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, and Barbados, and head- 

 quarters were made on Pelican Island, off the coast of Barbados, 

 and English Harbour, Antigua. These Lesser Antilles were found 

 to be a much poorer field than the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Florida 

 Keys, and the amount of dredging that could be done in water over 

 100 fathoms deep was much less ; hence the deep-sea novelties 

 were by no means so conspicuous as those described in the Reports 

 of the Bahama Expedition. Notes on the zoology, geology, and 

 botany of Antigua are given on pp. 174-223, a few insects (Lepi- 

 doptera and Hemiptera) being mentioned by Mr. D. Stoner. The 

 work is illustrated by a sketch-map and forty -nine extremely good 

 photographic plates. The collections made have been placed in the 

 hands of specialists, and doubtless will be dealt with by them in 

 subsequent Reports. 



Furniture-beetles, their Life-history, and how to check or prevent the 



damage caused by the Worm. By Charles J. Gahan, D.Sc. 



British Museum (Natural History): Economic Series, No. 11. 



1920. 



This very useful illustrated pamphlet of twenty-four pages, issued 



at the extremely low price of 6d., contains an account of the five 



