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testify. Nor can the keeping of insects in large tobacco boxes (p. 

 356) be endorsed, unless the Australian boxes are very much tighter 

 than those of this part of the world, even if our practice does not 

 always agree with our preaching! The presence of decaying vege- 

 table matter is surely not essential in rearing the eggs of all Odonata 

 (P- 35^) ; in the annual case of Sympctrum viciniivi mentioned above, 

 no vegetable matter is employed. 



The title of No. 22 in the bibliography (p. 364) is incorrectly 

 given: the paper in question had not the wide .scope which the mis- 

 quotation implies. The larger German text-books are so extensive 

 that the student will have some difficulty in finding the Odonata on 

 "pp. 380 ct seq." of No. 81 in the same list (p. 367) ; "AUgemeiner 

 Theil, 4te Lieferung, 1910," at least should be added to the citation. 

 Some mention should be made in the bibliography, even with its 

 limitations as laid down in the preface (pp. vii-viii), of the work of 

 A. N. Bartenef on the Palaearctic fauna. In view of the use of th: 

 word cell in two distinct meanings on the same page {e. g. 244), it 

 would seem desirable to include both meanings in the glossary (p. 

 c,77)~ as those who need the one wovild also require the other. On 

 page 378 is the remark that the word exuviae does not exist in the 

 singular and, although the Century Dictionary (not to quote others) 

 supports this statement, yet cxiivia and exuviuni appear in at least 

 one American entomological glossary and it is difficult to see why th'". 

 is not as good neo-Latin terminology as many of our accepted gencri: 

 and specific names. 



Mr. Tillyard says in his preface (pp. ix-x) : "Readers will . . . not 

 fail to discover a very strong Australian 'flavour' in the book. Those 

 who know how rich and varied the Australian Dragonfly-fauna is, 

 will look upon this rather as an advantage than otherwise. While 

 care has been exercised in selecting, for general description, well- 

 known genera of wide distribution, yet there has been no hesitation 

 in making use of the more archaic Australian forms, when these 

 latter could throw new light on the phylogeny of the Order." 



We welcome the Australian flavor and the ectogenic, if not ento- 

 genic. Australian authorship on this and other grounds as well. We 

 look to younger continents, as well as to younger men, for new 

 points of view, for li1)eration from the thralldom of stereotvped ideas, 

 and Mr. Tillyard has assuredly given us these in plenty in his Biology 

 of Dragonflies. — P. P. Calvert. 



Abundance of Sympetrum rubicundulum (Odonata). 



Sywpcinnn ruhiciindiilum Say was exceedingly common in my gar- 

 den as well as in those of my neighbors, at Mt. Airy. Pennsylvania, 

 during the month of September, 1917. The nearest breeding place is 

 at least a half mile from my home.— Philip Laurent, Philadelphia, Pa. 



