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11. Pomona Journal of Entomology I.: pp. 1-25, fs. 1-25 

 (March, 1909). 



12. Poulton, E. B. : "Essays on Evolution, 1889-1907," pp. 

 1-lviii and 1-479. (Oxford, 1908.) 



13. Newcomb, W. W. : " A Summer with Chnjsopkanm dorcas, 

 Kirby," Can. Ent. xli. 221-9 (July 7th, 1909). Lepidoptera. 



14. Maxwell-Lefroy, H. : " Eri or Castor Silli," Agr. J. India, 

 iv. 125-33, pis. 6-13 (April, 1909). Lepidoptera. 



15. Walton, W. R. : "An Illustrated Glossary of Ch£etotaxy and 

 Anatomical Terms used in Describing Diptera," Ent. News. 

 XX. 307-19, pis. 13-16 (July, 1909). 



Miyake (1) describes a new species from Japan of the 

 Noctuid genus Latirostrum, and remarks, " Baron Takachiho 

 captured the moth in a forest on Mount Hikosan, one of the high- 

 est mountains in Kiushiu. He says the moth was resting on a 

 leaf of a certain tree, with its long palpi extended forwards so as 

 to imitate a spine in a very perfect manner, and he supposes 

 that when it settles on a branch of a tree it may pass unobserved 

 even by keen eyes, showing us the significance of the long palpi 

 of this species." The same author (2) revises the Japanese 

 Arctianfe, enumerating, with synonymy, thirty-two species, with 

 a table of distribution ; six species are figured, the larvae of nine 

 briefly described, and the food-plants of several listed, no less 

 than seven being harboured by mulberry. Three new species 

 are described, the previously known forms having apparently 

 been described at length in Japanese in the extra-reports of the 

 Imperial Agr. Sta. 22 (1906). 



Lovell (7) reviews the subject of colour-sense in insects with 

 relation to flowers. His paper is not very amenable to summari- 

 sation, but, briefly, his results confirm the usual generally adverse 

 position to Plateau's opinions. 



Japha (3) discusses the "defiance-attitude" of Smerinthiis 

 ocellatiis, with a coloured plate. Kosminsky i4) discusses the 

 influence of external conditions on Lepidoptera. Blunk (5) 

 deals with colour variation in Di/tiscus. 



A new entomological periodical has appeared in California 

 (11) ; the first number deals principally with Aphididae and 

 Coccidae. 



It is surprising not to have seen a review in the ' Entomo- 

 logist ' of Poulton's collection of Essays on Evolution (12) ; 

 these are partly reprints of papers read or delivered before vari- 

 ous meetings, but also largely new, the greater part being 

 directly or indirectly connected with entomology, the following 

 especially: " Thomas Henry Huxley and the theory of Natural 

 Selection" (pp. 193-219); "Natural Selection the Cause of 

 Mimetic Resemblance and Common Warning Colours " (220-70) ; 

 " Mimicry and Natural Selection " (271-92) ; " The Place of 

 Mimicry in Scheme of Defensive Coloration " (293-382) ; with a 



