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Notices of New Boohs. 



yet it does not meet the exigencies of the case. Sir Emerson Tennant 

 and others have shown that it is not young fishes, just escaped from 

 the egg, which appear in the newly-formed pools, but full-grown 

 fishes, fit for the market; a fact well known to the Cingalese fisher- 

 men, who resort to the hollows as soon as the monsoon has brought 

 rain; and they invariably take, in these pools, whieh a day or two 

 before were as dry as dust, plenty of fishes fully grown, a foot or 

 eighteen inches long or longer. Neither of these hypotheses, then, 

 will account for the fact ; and we must admit that the fishes of these 

 regions have the instinct to burrow down into the solid mud at the 

 bottom, on the approach of the dry season, and the power of retaining 

 life, doubtless in a torpid condition, until the return of the periodic 

 rains, as Theophrastus long ago observed." — P. 118. 



And I may add that this is abundantly proved by the now 

 thoroughly ascertained habits of that " odd fish " the Lepidosiren. 



Edward Newman. 



£ The Entomologist's AnnuaV for 1862. London : John Van Voorst, 

 Paternoster Row. 160 pp., demy 12mo ; 1 coloured plate. 

 Price 2s. 6d. 



After the publication, in the expiring ' Intelligencer,' of Mr. 

 Stainton's views on the subject of periodicals, I scarcely expected to 

 have had the pleasure of once again beholding an ' Entomologist's 

 Annual ;' but here it is, and although the cover is as bilious-coloured 

 as usual, I most heartily congratulate the editor in having wholly ex- 

 cluded that bilious writing which has so often served to set entomo- 

 logists together by thej ears. The volume before us contains the 

 following papers : — 



A Comparative List of the Fossil Insects of England and Bavaria, 

 By Dr. Hagen. 



Index to the new Coleoptera enumerated in the ' Entomologist's 

 Annuals,' 1856—1861. By W. F. Kirby. 



Notes on British Trichoptera, with Descriptions of new Species, 

 &c. By Robert M'Lachlan. 



Notes on Eupithecia Larvae. By the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, M.A. 



A Chapter on Zyggena Minos. By the Editor. 



New British Species of Lepidoptera in 1861. By the Editor. 



Rare British Species of Lepidoptera captured in 1861. 



Observations on British and Continental Tineina. 



