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which he has undertaken on the Diptera of Italy, from which country 

 many interesting accessions to the European Fauna of this order may rea- 

 sonably be looked for. 



II. Lepidoptera. The most interesting intelligence we have in the 

 Bibliography of this order is the completion of Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer's 

 great and sumptuous work. Prof. Frey of Zurich has produced a modest 

 and meritorious volume on the Tinese and Pterophori of Switzerland, which 

 will be useful to the British " Tiuearist" also, though possessed already, as 

 we may assume him to be, of Mr. Stainton's volume on the British Tineina. 

 Of the last-named author's polyglott Natural History of this tribe, sufficient 

 materials have not yet accrued, as it seems, for the publication of another 

 of the annual volumes. The Manual of British Butterflies and Moths also 

 is to take a deliberate nap at the end of the Noctuina and the beginning of 

 the year, while awaiting the appearance of Guenee's work on that group, 

 shortly to be forthcoming in Roret's " Suites a Buffon." 



III. Hymenoptera. Dr. Nylander has given a Monograph of the For- 

 micidaa of France, in the " Annales des Sciences Naturelles," wherein he 

 has reduced again several of the new genera, which Mayr had dismembered 

 from Myrmica, chiefly by distinctions drawn from the varying number of 

 joints of the palpi. From Ruthe we have the promise of a Monograph of 

 the Braconidae of Germany, which is likely to be valuable, both from his 

 copious materials and the minute accuracy of his investigation, judging by 

 the specimen he has given in the groupe of Microctoni. At home, we have 

 no important accession to the literature of this order, except the British 

 Museum Catalogue of British Ichneumonidae, by Mr. Desvignes. We have 

 not yet had the opportunity of examining it, but we feel assured before- 

 beforehand of its utility, from the author's thorough knowledge of his subject. 



IV. Coleoptera. If for a republication of a standard work of Entomology 

 generally, Kirby and Spence's Introduction is the best value for the lowest 

 price we know ; so are Lacordaire's volumes on the Genera of Coleoptera 

 the cheapest of an original work. Estimated by the labour and materials 

 they must have required, the information condensed in them, and the time 

 and pains which they save the student, were it only as an index to the 

 species, they would be worth their weight in silver at least. The third 

 volume, containing the genera of the Pectinicornia and Lamellicornia, has 

 appeared, and we have reason to hope that the fourth will speedily follow. 



To all the students of this order among ourselves, a long-desired and 

 very welcome acquisition is the first part of a revised list of the Rhyn- 

 chophorous beetles of Britain, Bruchidae — Curculionidse, by Mr. Walton, 



