Vol. XXvii] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 4I 



M. T. — Notes and descriptions of Tenthredella [4 new], 4, 1915, 

 321-26. Turner, R. E.— On a new sp. of Pepsis [S. Am.], 8, xvi, 

 413. Wasmann, E. — Eine neue Pseudomyrma aus der Ochsenhorn- 

 dornakazie in Alexiko, 46, Iviii, 296-325. 



The Embryology of the Honey Bee. By James Allen Nelson, 

 Ph.D., Expert, Bee Culture Investigations, Bureau of Entomology, U 

 S. Department of Agriculture. Princeton University Press, Prince- 

 ton, October, 191 5, i2mo. Pp. vi, 282. 95 text figs., 6 plates. $2.00 net. 



The broad and comprehensive way in which the Bee Culture Investiga- 

 tions of the Bureau of Entomology have been considered and treated, 

 since Dr. Everett Franklin Phillips was placed in charge of them in 

 1907, is strikingly illustrated by the publications which have emanated 

 from the investigators concerned. Snodgrass has given us the results 

 of a careful and original re-examination of the anatomy of the honey 

 bee,^ Casteel has corrected our notions of the manipulation of the wax 

 scales- and the behavior of the bee in pollen collecting,^ Mclndoo has 

 informed us on the olfactory sense* and on the scent-producing 

 organ,5 Phillips, C. A. Browne, B. N. Gates, G. F. White and G. S. 

 Demuth, singly or in conjunction,'' have dealt with various practical 

 phases of apiculture and especially with bee diseases, while Phillips 

 has summed up these and other researches and experiences in a 

 recent volume'^ in The Rural Science Series. Now comes the still 

 more esoteric volume on the embryology of the Honey bee. The 

 keynote to all this work is in the first sentence of the preface con- 

 tributed by Phillips to Nelson's book before us : "The good bee- 

 keeper is he who is interested not only in those things which have to 

 do directly with the production of honey, but to whom everything 

 pertaining to honey bees has a deep interest." The conception that 

 "everything pertaining to honey bees" should include an extensive 

 and intimate knowledge of structure, physiology, behavior and em- 

 bryology exhibits a breadth of view which it is a pleasure to em- 



^ Technical Series No. 18, Bureau of Ent, etc., May 28, 1910; 162 

 pp., 57 figs. 



2 Circular 161 of the same. Oct. 4, 1912. 13 pp., 7 figs. 



3 Bulletin 121 of the same. Dec. 31, 1912. 36 pp., 9 figs. 



* Journal of Experimental Zoology, xvi, 265-346, 24 figs., April, 1914. 



5 Proceedings, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1914, 542-555, i text-fig., 2 

 pis., Aug. 21. 



^Bulletins 75 (1907-1909) and 98 (1912) of the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology Farmers' Bulletins 442 and 447 (1911) and Bulletins 92, 93 and 

 96 (1914) of the U. S. Dept. Agric. 



'^ Beekeeping: A Discussion of the Life of the Honey Bee and of the 

 Production of Honey, New York, The Macmillan Co. Aug., 1915. 



