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re-appearance of the venerable Germar, the friend of Latreille 

 and Leach, will be hailed with satisfaction by our readers. — 

 In this, the first number of a work similar in character to his 

 ' Magasin der Entomologie,' are contained memoirs of various 

 groups of insects by the editor and others. They are as fol- 

 lows. — 



1. A Memoir upon the Scutelleridce, by M. Germar, in 

 which a great number of species of this interesting group, to- 

 gether with several new genera, are described, and in which 

 we find the works of Burmeister, Guerin, &c, and the synop- 

 tical catalogue of Mr. Hope, carefully cited. 



2. A Monograph on the genus Mantissa, by Dr. Erichson, 

 preceded by various considerations as to the place occupied 

 by this anomalous genus, together with descriptions of twen- 

 ty-four species. We may here take occasion to observe that 

 the author has not consulted the last volume of the ( Ency- 

 clopedic Methodique,' (wherein his Mant. chalybea has been 

 previously described under the name of Mant. semihyalina), 

 nor the f Entomological Magazine,' in which a species has 

 been described by Mr. Newman : neither is the author ac- 

 quainted with any Australian species, of which, however, we 

 are aware of the existence. 



3. Memoir on the chemical composition of the fatty mat- 

 ter and oily secretion of lepidopterous insects, by Professor 

 Dtibner, of Augsburg. 



4. Descriptions of three new genera of Cicadida, by Dr. 

 Germar : 1st, Clastoptera, near Penthimia, seven American 

 species : 2nd, Xerophloea, near Gypona, oue Brazilian spe- 

 cies : 3rd, Phylloscelis, near Eurybrachis, two Pennsylvanian 

 species. 



Art. III. — The Natural History of the Sperm Whale. By Thomas Beale, 

 late Surgeon to the ' Kent ' and ' Sarah and Elizabeth ' South-Seamen. 

 London : Van Voorst, 1 839. 



The author of this work is favourably known as the writer of 

 a brief sketch of the natural history of the sperm whale which 

 was published three or four years since ; and the information 

 which he then communicated to the public in the shape of a 

 pamphlet, has been re-printed, and now comes before us in 

 the more important character of a volume. Since the publica- 

 tion of his first edition it appears that Mr. Beale has examin- 

 ed the skeleton of a cachalot in the possession of Sir Clifford 

 Constable, near Hull, and has thereby been enabled to draw 

 Vol. III.— No. 29. n. s. 2d 



