WILD BEES, WASPS, AND ANTS.
Wild Bees, Wasps, and Ants. By Edward Saunders, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. With numerous Illustrations in the Text and 4 Coloured Plates by Constance A. Saunders. (George Routledge and Sons. 3s. 6d.)—This little book gives a popular and readable account of a group of British insects which are known to 'entomologists as Hymenoptera aculeata. Mr. Saunders writes brightly and clearly ; he is, moreover, an authority whose state- ments can be trusted. What lie has put together on the appear- ance, structure, and habits of these social or solitary insects may perhaps lead some amateur naturalists to devote themselves to a field in which there is plenty of work to be done. A lifetime may be spent in really discovering the whole life-history of one species of ant or solitary wasp. As long again might be devoted to their parasites or lodgers. The coloured plates, in which 40nle twenty species appear, are extremely good..
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