Abstract
THE sub-title of this little booklet expresses very neatly its purpose as a stimulus to the study of British Orthoptera, and there can be no question that it will serve the purpose in an admirable way. Although there are thirty-one species of Orthoptera and Dermaptera on the British list, they remain one of the most neglected groups of insects, and the distribution of the different species, to say nothing of their habits and ecology, are most imperfectly known. Determination of the recognized British species, and of such few as may be expected to occur in the British Isles, is very easy with the aid of short descriptions and figures of outstanding characters. Distributional maps are given for each species, but they serve mostly to show the lamentable paucity of records. General remarks at the beginning of the book, and scattered throughout its text, contain a host of suggestions for studies, both valuable scientifically and mostly easily carried out by any serious amateur naturalist.
British Grasshoppers and their Allies:
a Stimulus to their Study. By Dr. Malcolm Burr. Pp. xvi + 162 + 6 plates. (London: Philip Allan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 6s. net.
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UVAROV, B. [Short Notices]. Nature 139, 456 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139456c0
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