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and W. W. Kinsey. — Exhibits were afterwards shown by the members : 

 Mr. B. H. Crabtree, case containing species of the Acidalias. Mr. 

 Brauer, a case of V. cardxd, V. c-album, V. atalanta, and V. pohjchlorox, 

 showing in each instance their foreign relations. The members, 

 under the guidance of Mr. J. Ray Hardy, afterwards inspected the 

 collection of British Curculionidfe belonging to the Manchester 

 Museum. In the group Ehyncophora 460 species out of the 480 

 known were shown, including the grain- and the whole of the timber- 

 destroying species. Also the group Scolytidfe, the species of which 

 were notorious for the ravages inflicted, both in its larval and perfect 

 state, upon elm-trees, especially in London parks. — R. J. Wigels- 

 woRTH, Ho7i. Secretary. 



EECENT LITERATURE. 



Biitish Tyroghjphidce, By Albert D. Michael, F.L.S., &c. Vol. II. 

 183 pp. 20 plates. London : Ray Society. 1903. 



The first volume of this important work was issued by the Ray 

 Society to its subscribers for 1901, and a notice of it was published in 

 the ' Entomologist ' for 1902, p. 176. In this, the concluding volume, 

 the remaining nine genera and sixteen species are described and their 

 habits discussed. There is a list of the principal foreign species which 

 have not so far been recorded as British. The chief books and papers 

 dealing with the Troglyphidfe are also referred to in the bibliography, 

 and a most convenient index has been provided. As in the previous 

 volume, the plates are excellent, and many of the numerous figures 

 are coloured. When one understands that the author had to rely 

 almost entirely upon his own exertions in obtaining British species for 

 study, and that he drew all the figures on the thirty-nine plates, one 

 can form some idea of the enormous amount of labour that he has 

 bestowed in the preparation of this work. 



Who's Who? 1700 pp.; Who's Who Year- Book, 112 pp.; and The 

 Englishwomen's Year- Book, 352 pp. London : Adam and Charles 

 Black. 1904. 

 As we have been favoured with a copy of each of the above- 

 mentioned works, we have much pleasure in calling the attention of 

 our readers to them. Among the host of notable personages whose 

 biographies are given in ' Who's Who,' we find, among others, the 

 names of Bateson, William ; Distant, WilUam Lucas ; Elwes, Henry 

 John ; Godman, Frederick DuCane ; Hampson, Sir George Francis ; 

 McLachlan, Robert ; Meldola, Raphael ; Poulton, Edward Bagnall ; 

 Rothschild, Hon. Lionel Walter ; Sharp, David ; Tutt, James William ; 

 and Lord Walsingham. In the ' Year-Book,' which used to form part 

 of ' Who's Who ? ' there is much information of a useful and general 

 character, and this is conveniently arranged in tabular form. 



