ors 
L.-H. Weld has returned to-.his du ae in the: Div ‘ision of Tnee cue 
‘after a-six months'. leave of absence. 
Recently the Museum received the hide of a Panamahian howling monkey 
which was very heavily infested with the larvae of a bot-fly. ‘The larvae 
‘have been determined by Mr. Green as belonging to the genus Cuterebra. This 
is the first kncown record of a species oe this genus infesting any of the 
primates, its usual hosts being various species of roderts. ‘The specimen 
was collected by Mr. Baer, who was with the Marsh Darien expedition, and was 
one. of the last specimens obtained b by him before his death. 

The Division of Insects recently received an interesting gift of 
vaeeaid ema larvae from Dr. E. Rosenberg, Copenhagen huseum, Copenhagen, : 
Denmark. This lot includes 21 different. species beionging to 17 Bets 
and is.a very useful addition to the collection. 
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“Vabel Colcord, Librarian 

NEW BOOKS fare | 
House plants and how to grow them. Carden City, Doubleday, rage & 
Coxsid 923 GRA ore Seca (Amateur 's book of the garden series.) — 
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Naturel history of British butterflies. Iondon, Hutchinson & Co., 1924, 
zv., colored plaves. . ms 
Johnston, T. H., and Hardy, -G. 48. : 
Observations regarding. the life-cycle of certain Australian blowflies. 
‘ Proc.-Royal Soc. Queensland, v. 35, p. 21-42, Feb. eo, Wed, ~ 
Lesne, Pierre. | 3 ae f 
Les coleopteres bostrychides de* is Krrighe tropicele francaise... 
Ouvrage publie sous les auspices de HM. Henri Rothschild, au benefice de 
lioffice centrale de faunistique... Preface de M. BE. L. Bouvier... 
Paris, P. Lechevalier, 1924. 301 p., illus. (Encyclopedie entomolo- 
gique no. 3.) ; 
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Lindner, Erwin. 
Die fliegen der palaearktischen region. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart'sche 
Verlagsbuchhandlime, 1924. .lfg. 1, plates. 
Tenth annual report, 1923-24.:. (Nankiag Univ. Bul. .v. 6, no! 17.) _ € 
Department of sericulture, p.. 53-58. a . 
Newstead, Robert. ; 
Liverpool limited, 1924: 268 p-,.illus., 28. plates, 4 maps. (Liverpool 
School of Trop. Med. Memoirs (New series) No. 1)._ Pibliography, p.246- 
261, mt ae | 
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Nanking University, Collegeof puaieraes: and Forestry. 
Guide to the study of “uétde tiie aes London, Universi ty press of | 
