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risen to the dignity of an Abbe, was thrown into prison and con- 

 veyed to Bordeanx for deportation to Cayenne, with other offenders 

 guilty of belonging to the priesthood. During the visit of a surgeon 

 to the prison the latter saw Latreille pick up an insect and look at 

 it carefully. " Is it rare ? " he asked. " Yes," said Latreille. 

 " Give it me," said the surgeon, " for I have a friend who is inter- 

 ested in insects." " Take it, and ask him to give me its name," 

 said Latreille. But the surgeon brought back the reply that ho 

 could not discover the name, and that it was probably a new 

 species ; and then Latreille gave him a message to his friend Bory 

 de St. Vincent, a man of considerable influence, who was able to 

 exert it to release him from his imprisonment, and thereby saved 

 his life, for the vessel in which he was to have sailed was lost with 

 all on board, except some of the crow, who escaped in a boat, Tho 

 insect, the capture of which led to such important results, was 

 Necrohia ruficollis, Fabricius, a small beetle belonging to tho 

 Malacodermata. 



Edm. Boedage. liecherches anatomirpies et hiologiques sitr VAutotomie 

 et la liegeneration chez divers Arthropodes. (Eeprinted from 

 ' Bulletin scientitique de la France et do la Belgique,' vol. xxxix. 

 1905, pp. 307-454, pi. vi. & 20 text-tigs.) 



A TREATISE on the power possessed by various insects (especially 

 Phasmida)) of reproducing lost limbs, either when a limb has been 

 cast by the insect itself to facilitate its escape from an enemy, or 

 when a limb has been injured, or amputated for experimental 

 purposes. The author is the Director of the Museum of Natural 

 History in the island of Reunion, and has paid special attention to 

 the question in tho case of two large Phasmids {Monandroptera 

 inuncans, Serv., and Rliapliiderus scabrosus, Serv.) which inhabit 

 that island. The brochure will be very interesting to entomologists 

 who occupy themselves with insect physiology. 



The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Pub- 

 lished under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in 

 Council. Edited by Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham. — Butterflies. 

 Vol. II. By Lt.-Col. C. T. Bingham. London : Taylor & Francis, 

 1907. 8vo. Pp. viii, 480 ; pis. xi.-xix. 



The second volume of this important work includes the Papilionida), 

 the PieridcC, and the following five subfamilies of Lyca^nida; : — Gery- 

 dinse, Lycasninas, Curetinte, Liphyrinoe, and Poritiina). Two more 

 subfamilies of Lyca^nida) (Arhopaliuoe and Theclina;) remain over 

 till the next volume. 



It will thus be seen that the volume includes a considerable 

 portion of the most conspicuous and interesting butterflies. In the 

 Papilionidae six genera are included — Armandiu, Leptocircus, Teino- 



