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RECENT LITERATURE. 



1. The Annals of Scottish Natural History. Edinburgh. 1906. 

 Although treating of natural history in a very wide sense, no 



student of the British insects can safely leave this excellent periodical 

 unexamined. This year the dipterist is the one most extensively 

 catered for. 



2. Museum Gazette and Journal of Field- Study. Conducted by Jonathan 



Hutchinson, &c, Illustrated. Haslemere. 

 This monthly magazine contains readable popular articles on all 

 sorts of out-of-door subjects. The list of books, &c, for sale at the 

 museum gives an unfortunate trade appearance to what should, never- 

 theless, be a useful periodical to the not too advanced naturalist. 



3. The Science of Dry Fly Fishing. By F.G.Shaw. London: Bradbury, 



Agnew & Co., Ltd. 1906. 

 A fly-fisher need not necessarily be an entomologist, although there 

 is little doubt that a knowledge of entomology will make even a good 

 fly -fisher a better one. In any case we have here clearly a good text- 

 book, well got up and beautifully illustrated. If the entomologist 

 would not go to it to study entomology, he should, at any rate, look 

 at the illustrations of insects, by Horace Knight, in Plates xv. and xvi. 



4. First Report of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry 



of the Territory of Hawaii. Honolulu. 1905. 

 A long report of 170 pages, but apparently containing little of 

 interest to the entomologist generally. A great part is confined to 

 forestry. 



5. The Bombay Locust, Acridium succinctum (Linn.), (from Memoirs of 



the Department of Agriculture in India). By H. Maxwell-Lefroy. 

 112 pages, 13 plates. Calcutta. 1906. 

 A long and full account of the insect, its attack, and the mode of 

 combating it. 



6. The Western Pine-destroying Bark Beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis, 



Lee. (Some Insfcts injurious to Forests). By J. L. Webb. 

 14 pages, 2 plates, and 6 illustrations in text. Washington. 

 1906. 

 " Object of the paper to give available information on this insect 

 and methods of combating it." 



7. Notes on Exotic Forjiculids or Earwigs, with descriptions of New 



Species. By J. A. G. Rehn. Illustrated. 15 pages. Washington. 

 1905. 



8. Notes on South American Grasshoppers of the Sub-Family Acridinee 



(Acridida), with descriptions of New Genera and Species. By J. A. 

 G. Rehn. 21 pages. Washington. 1906. 



9. The Locustida and GryUidee (K«ty<Hds and Crickets) collected by W. T. 



Foster in Paraguay. By A. N. Caudell. 10 pages. Washington. 

 1906. 



