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MR. BUCKTON'S MONOGRAPH OF THE BRITISH CICADA AND TETTI- 



GIID^E.* 



The mere announcement that Mr. G. B. Buckton was about to mon- 

 ograph the British species of the difficult group of insects above men- 

 tioned, was a sufficient indication that the work would be well and 

 carefully done, and the two parts which we have before us fully justify 

 our anticipations. The work resembles in character his well-known 

 monograph of the British Aphididae, although not published as was the 

 former work by the Eay Society. The plates are drawn and litho- 

 graphed by Mr. Buckton himself, and while a little rough in appearance 

 admirably illustrate the characteristics of the different species. The 

 parts contain 32 pages and 10 plates each, all of the plates being colored 

 except two supplementary ones which indicate details of structure. 



EARLY STAGES OF THE ODONATA.f 



After many years Mr. Gabot has given us the third part of his mono- 

 graph, which takes up twenty -three species of Cordulina with a number 

 of forms in the genera Pantala and Tramea. The six lithographic 

 plates are beautifully reproduced from drawings by the author. 



INDIAN MUSEUM NOTES No. 3. 



The third number of these insect publications has just reached us 

 through the courtesy of Mr. E. G. Cotes. This number is devoted to 

 a description of the " Silk- worms in India," and a surprising number 

 of species actually reared for commercial purposes are treated. Aside 

 from the Mulberry Silk-worm (Sericaria mori), the pamphlet considers 

 Bombyx fortunatus, the Desi or Chota Polo ; Bombyx crcesi, the Nistry or 

 Madrassi; Bombyx arracanensis, the Nya Paiv ; Bombyx sinensis, the 

 Sina, Cheena, or Chota Pat; Antherwa mylitta, the Timer; Attacus 

 ricinij the Eri ; Anthercea assama, the Muga. Four lithographic plates 

 accompany the treatment of the species. 



THE CHINCH BUG DISEASE. 



Prof. F. H. Snow, in No. 1 of Volume XII of the Transactions of the 

 Kansas Academy of Sciences (1889), pages 34 to 37, gives the result of 

 his experiments for the artificial dissemination of a contagious disease 

 among the Ghinch Bugs. There is little further in this article than that 

 summarized from the Lawrence (Kans.) Daily Journal on page 126 of 

 the current volume. We repeat our caution as to the too ready accept- 

 ance of results of this character. 



* Monograph of the British Cicadas and Tettigiidre, illustrated by more than 400 

 colored drawings by George Bowdler Buckton, F. R. S. London, Macmillau & Co., 

 and New York, 1S90. 8 parts. Price, 8s. per part. 



t The Immature State of the Odonata. Part III. Subfamily Cordulina. By Louis 

 Cabot, with 6 plates. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. XVII, 

 No. 1, Cambridge, February, 1890. 



