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(1) MR. DISTANT'S Appendix to the account of the British Indian Homoptera in the admirable “Fauna” has plenty to chronicle in the shape of novelties. In the Cicadas, so striking a group in the warm regions of the earth, he has to record as many as twenty-three new species since he dealt with the family in vol. iii.; and naturally among those families which make less noise in the world the proportion of novelties is greater, even the little Jassidae claiming thirty-two new forms, and the Cercopidæ, familiar to us in the person of the “cuckoo-spit” insect, as many as fifty, a number more than trebled by the Fulgoridæ, most of which are not large and conspicuous like the celebrated “lantern-flies” which popularly typify the family. The Membracidæ have more than sixty new forms described, which fully bear out the family reputation for eccentricity in thoracic appendages. Among the new forms described there is a large proportion of new genera, which are fully characterised, so that it is not surprising that the present volume is a fair-sized one; it is well illustrated, having 177 figures.
(1) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.
Rhynchota: vol. vi. Homoptera: Appendix. By W. L. Distant. Pp. viii + 248. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1916.) Price 10s.
(2) Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History).
Vol v.: Perissodactyla (Horses, Tapirs, Rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (Hyraxes), Proboscidea (Elephants). By the late Richard Lydekker. Pp. xlv + 207. (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Sold by Longmans and Co., 1916.) Price 7s. 6d.
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F., F. (1) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma (2) Catalogue of the Ungulate Mammals in the British Museum (Natural History) . Nature 98, 107 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098107a0
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