"Wild Bees, Wasps, and Ants." By Edward 

 Saunders, F.B.S., F.LJ3. 3s 6d. (London: 

 George Routtedge and Sons.) 

 Excepting only a certain brevity of treatment, 

 this small volume by Mr Sannders appears to 

 form a very excellent littlo treatise of a popular 

 nature on a group of insects which, while 

 admittedly of interest to many, are yet for various 

 reasons not so well known as they might be. lha 

 solitary and social groups are first separately 

 dealt with, after which we are given several 

 short chapters concerned either with various 

 forms of . special interest or with generalities 

 such as the method by which a bee's tongue can 

 suck honey, the distribution of species, the 

 vagaries of colour, development, and so forth. 

 > The language is simple and straightforward, while 

 i the large and clear printing, together with an 

 I adequate proportion of text-figures and coloured 

 ' plates, make the book an extremely easy and 

 pi -asant one to read. We regret only the short- 

 ! ness of some of the chapters, which seem, after 

 having nicely aroused our interest, to let us fall 

 with rather too sudden a drop ; yet, from the 

 genuine amateur's point of view, tins may be less 

 of a fault than we may imagine, and he will prob- 

 ably feel that he has received just so much initia- 

 tion into the subject as is good for the moment, 

 while being properly stimulated to make f urth< 

 inquiries after a due digestion of the facts here 

 presented, and this we gather is the authors 



intention. 



