Abstract
THE introduction to this book states that the aim is to assist any one who may want “a volume more accurate than the popular romantic books and less technical than a systematic book.” The Hymenoptera are a difficult group to treat in this form, and to produce a handbook of real use, and at the same time nontechnical in character, is not an easy task. The present work suffers from over-compression: the actual descriptive letterpress only runs to 34 pages, which, it may be added, have exceptionally wide margins, and the result is that some of the superfamilies are dismissed in but a few lines. At the end of the book are eight clearly executed half-tone plates illustrating typical Hymenoptera and insects which resemble members of that order. The beginner who uses the book should note that the family headings of Figs. 25 and 26 and of Figs. 59 and 60 have been transposed.
British Hymenoptera.
A. S.
Buckland
L. N.
Staniland
E. B.
Watson
By. Pp. 48 + 8 plates. (London: E. Arnold and Co., 1923.) 9s. net.
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British Hymenoptera. Nature 113, 531 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113531d0
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