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the spirited editor proposes to continue, during the next season also, in 

 spite of the loss incurred on a weekly penny paper addressed to a reading 

 public so limited. 



We understand that Mr. Curtis is occupied in preparing a new collected 

 edition of his Reports on Insects noxious to Agriculture, originally con- 

 tributed to the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. It is a subject of 

 congratulation that these valuable papers will thus be rescued from the 

 comparative oblivion in which they were buried there, in consequence of 

 the very limited interchange of their respective knowledge which takes 

 place, as yet, between the Farmer and the Naturalist. It is an exemplifi- 

 cation of this, that Noerdlinger, in his new and pretty copious work on the 

 " Little Enemies of Agriculture," has not derived any of the materials from 

 the numerous essays in English on this subject to be found in the above- 

 named Journal and in the Gardener's Chronicle. Zoologie Agricole, par 

 E. Blanchard, which includes the insects noxious to the crops, has been 

 continued in monthly parts. 



In Insect Physiology we have a paper on the Respiration of Insects, by 

 Mr. Lubbock, in the Entomologist's Annual, professedly popular rather 

 than profound ; an interesting communication, by M. Hicks, in the Journal 

 of the Linnean Society, on a peculiar structure observed in the Halteres of 

 the Diptera, which, on this ground, he concludes to be organs of sense, — 

 as also certain parts at the base of the wings of insects in general, wherein 

 a similar structure may be traced. The latest number of Siebold's Journal 

 of Scientific Zoology contains some valuable observations by Stempler on 

 the development of the Scales of the wings and other parts, in the Lepidop- 

 tera, establishing more particularly than had been done before the perfect 

 analogy, in origin and growth, between this kind of covering and the more 

 usual form of the hairs of the Articulata ; which latter type has been in- 

 vestigated morphologically by Menzel, in a paper in the Stettin Ento- 

 mological Journal of 1856, as well as in some previous separate publica- 

 tions. 



Crustacea. Several important additions to the Literature of the Class 

 have appeared during the past year ; chiefly in Wiegmann's Archives of 

 Natural History, and the Proceedings of the Swedish Academy of Science, 

 and of the Danish Royal Society. On the Entomostraca we have a paper 

 by Mr. Lubbock in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London, and another by Fischer in the Transactions of the Bavarian 

 Academy, both illustrated with numerous figures. 



Arachnida. An essay on the Cheraetida3 (Pseudoscorpii,) by Dr. 



