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Newt killed by a Bee. — One hot morning, the cover being off the 

 aquarium, some working bees sought the water. Whether a Newt clashed 

 at the Bee or the latter pitched on the Newt's head, I am not sure. At 

 any rate the Bee attacked the Newt, and digging its sting in under the jaw 

 was immediately taken under water and drowned. The Newt afterwards 

 succumbed, owing, I think, to suffocation caused by inflammation in the 

 throat.— H, Marmaduke Langdale (Compton, Petersfield). 



INSECTS. 



A Flight of " Parasol Ants." — On May 25th last I had occasion to 

 attend at the Port of Spain railway station, and proceeding thitherwards 

 in the early morning, found the road all along the route from the Gardens 

 to the station covered by myriads of the winged form of the " Parasol Ant " 

 known as Atta giintheri, Forel., which is so common in the neighbourhood 

 of the town of Port of Spain, to the exclusion of its larger relative Atta 

 cej)halotes, the woodland " Parasol Ant." Opportunity is taken of this 

 occurrence to point out the lesson it teaches, which is, that the nest of the 

 " Parasol Ant " should always be destroyed previous to the time of the 

 annual flight, which occurs generally in May or June. During this annual 

 flight it is certain that the sexes pair, and those which survive are certain 

 to become the founders of new nests in the most suitable situations in 

 which they happen to find themselves. If, however, the parent nests were 

 destroyed during the early months of the year, before the winged or perfect 

 forms are produced, the attempt to reduce their numbers in the colony would 

 have a better chance of success. — J. H. Hart (Botanic Garden, Trinidad). 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 



Horses, Asses, Zebras, Mules and Mule-breeding. By W. B. 



Tegetmeier and C. L. Sutherland. 8vo, pp. i-viii, 



1-166. With numerous illustrations. London: Horace 



Cox. 1895. 



The authors of this volume have done good service in bringing 



together under the above heading some useful statistics from 



many scattered sources of information. Especially valuable are 



the remarks of Mr. Sutherland on Mules and Mule-breeding, on 



which subject he brings to bear the experience of a quarter of a 



century. Much of this information is new in the sense that it 



has not previously appeared in print, and it is curious that in the 



very extensive literature which exists on the subject of the Horse 



