5 FEBRUARY 1954, Page 28

NEW and good books about insects are as rare as

hens' teeth. This is not particularly new in content or good in the sense that the author has managed to arrange some old ideas in a new way, but it has got almost everything else calculated to keep a teacher or a young entomologist happy and well instructed. Every page abounds in facts. Despite the uninhibited title the work is logically put together by a professional researcher and it is magnificently illustrated.

J. H.