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from Grange, the last being very brightly coloured. — Mr. Prince, a 

 bred series of Cidaria 7-eticulata, from Windermere ; Nemeophila 

 plantagmis var. hospita, from the Lake District ; and many coast 

 species. — Wm. Mansbeidge, Hon. Sec. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



1. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. Vol. vi. No. 1, b 

 (May 29th, 1912) ; No. 2 (July 31st, 1912) ; No. 3, a (September 12th, 

 1912). Liverpool. In addition to papers concerning insects in their 

 relation to disease, such as malaria and sleeping-sickness, there are : — 

 (1) " A new Tsetse-fly from British East Africa {Glossina a^isteni) by 

 Prof. R. Newstead, F.R.S., in No. 1 ; and (2) Three important papers 

 in No. 2 by H. B. Fantham, D.Sc, and Annie Porter, D.Sc, on the 

 " Isle of Wight Disease of Bees." 



2. Memorias do Instituto Oszvaldo Cruz (Ano 1911, Tomo iii. 

 Faciculo ii). Rio de Janeiro, 1911. — Pages 295-300 are concerned 

 with certain Culicidae. 



3. Two Insect Pests of the United Provinces — the Sugar-cane 

 Grasshopper {Hieroglyphus fuscifer) and the Potato Moth {Phtho- 

 rimcea operculella) — by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, R.N. ('Agricultural 

 Journal of India,' vol. vi. pt. ii). Calcutta, 1911. 



4. Dragonflies of the Cumherland Valley in Kentucky and Ten- 

 nessee, by C. B. Wilson (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vol. 43, pp. 189-200). 

 Washington, 1912. 



5. The Proportion of the Sexes in Forficula auricularia, by H. H. 

 Brindley, M.A. (Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. xvi. pt. 8). Cambridge, 

 1912. A short but important paper, which must have entailed a large 

 amount of work in its preparation. 



6. " Microscopes for Entomologists.'" — We have received a copy of 

 the new edition of E. Leitz' Catalogue of Microscopes, and a pamphlet 

 concerning a new eyepiece for demonstration purposes. Some of 

 the new forms of microscope are specially suitable for entomologists, 

 and anyone intending to purchase an instrument would do well to 

 call at 18, Bloomsbury Square, W.C., and inspect them. 



W. J. Lucas. 



The Hwnble-Bee, its Life-History, and hoio to Domesticate it. By 

 F. W. L. Sladen, F.E.S. Illustrated with Photographs and 

 Drawings by the Author, and Five Coloured Plates Photo- 

 graphed direct from Nature. Pp. i-xiii, 1-283. London : 

 Macmillan & Co., Limited. 1912. 



Peobably few insects of the open country are more familiar to 

 field entomologists than Humble-Bees, and yet, speaking generally, 

 how limited is our knowledge of these very interesting members of 

 the Hymenoptera-Aculeata ! Except, of course, to those who specially 

 study Bombi, the separation, for example, of the workers of B. 

 lucorum from the workers of B. terrestris would not always be an 



