38 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Kew Gardens ; a Popular Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew ; by Sir W. 

 J. Hooker. Guide to the Musenm of Economic Botany in the Royal Gardens of 

 Kew ; by Sir W. J. Hooker. 



No. 90, December: — Original Papers— (Mitten, W.) Mosses and Hepaticae 

 collected at Moulmein. (Bentham, G.) Description of two American Species of 

 Gnetum. (Hooker, Sir W. J.) On Polypodium anomalum, a new fern. (De 

 Candolle, Alph.) Sketch of the Life and Writings of M. de Martius. On Papyrus, 

 Bonapartea, and other plants which can furnish fibre for paper-pulp. On the culti- 

 vation of RafHesia Arnoldi, R. Br. : a letter from Mr. J. E. Teysman. On the 

 period of Leafing:, Flowering, and Fruiting of Plants. (Thwaites, G. II. K.) Note 

 on Dichilanthe Zeylanica. (Thwaites, G. H. K.) Note on the Genus Doona. Bo- 

 tanical Information — Valuable American Herbarium for sale. Odal Oil. Mueller's 

 European Herbarium. Mr. Spruce's Collections. M. Huet de Pavilion's Plants of 

 Sicily. Note on Stylosanthes, by G. Bentham. Notices of Books — Flora of Tas- 

 mania, by Dr. J. D. Hooker. Manual of the Botany of the United States, by Dr. 

 Asa Gray. 



Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. New Series, 8vo. 



London. Vol. IV. Part I., with twelve Plates, price '3s. 6d. Part II., with 



one Plate, price 2s. 1856. 



(Westwood) Descriptions of the Species of the Australian Lamellicorn genus 

 Cryptodus ; with a plate — p. 1-7. Three new species are described and figured, 

 viz., C. tasmanianus and politus, which enter into the subgenus Cryptodlnus West- 

 wood, along with C. passaloides Germ, and C. caviceps, constituting the sub- 

 genus Cryptodellus (Westwood). We cannot approve of subgenera named 

 after this fashion, however " handy" it may seem. (Lubbock) On some Ento- 

 mostraca collected by Dr. Sutherland, in the Atlantic Ocean ; with eleven 

 plates — p. 8-37. How imperfectly the marine Entomostraca are known as yet 

 appears from the large proportion of new species introduced in this collection — 

 twenty three oat of thirty-five. They are as follows, — Calanus inconspicuus, 

 penicillatus, latus, brevicornis, mirabilis ; Euchaeta atlantica, sutherlandii ; 

 Undina danae, longipes, plumosa, helenae, pulchra ; Diaptomus dubius, abdo- 

 minalis ; Pontella setosa ; Clytemnestra atlantica ; Corycseus sutherlandii, 

 stjliferus ; Copilia atlantica ; Sapphirina danae, opaca, stylifera ; Halocypris 

 atlantica. (Stainton) How may the onward progress of Entomology be best 

 furthered — p. 38-42. (Pascoe) Descriptions of New Genera and Species of 

 Asiatic Longicorn Coleoptera ; with a coloured plate — p. 42-48. Chiefly from 

 the collections of Mr. Wallace in Malacca and Borneo ; a few collected by Mr. 

 Fortune in Northern China. Blemmya n.g., B. whitei; bifasciata; Prothema n.g., 

 P. signata, funerea; Acrocyrta n.g., A. clytoides ; Astathes simulator n.sp. ; 

 Serixia n.g. ; S. apicalis, modesta ; Neoxantha n.g., N. amicta ; Entelopes wal- 

 lacei, doubtful whether distinct from E. brevicollis Dj.; Dialeges n.g., D. pauper ; 

 Triammatus chevrolati n.sp. ; Monohammus luridus, aspersus, infelix, blattoides, 

 n.spp. Proceedings — p. 1-1.6. 



Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society. 8vo. London. 

 No. 3; with two Plates. November, 1856. 

 Zoology. (Walker) Catalogue of the Homopterous Insects collected at 

 Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A. R. "Wallace, with descriptions of new species, 

 continued; with two plates— p. 97-100. (Couch) On the occurrence of 

 Sepia biserialis in Cornwall — p. 100-102. (Westwood) Notice of the" Borer," 

 a caterpillar very injurious to the Sugar cane in the island of Mauritius — p. 102. 

 The moth appears to be identical with the Phalcena saccharalis Fabr., 

 Diatraca sacchari Guilding, so destructive to the plantations of the West Indies. 

 (Hanbury) Notice of a specimen of Insect-wax from China — p. 103. (West- 

 wood) Note on Insects producing wax, from Port Natal and China — p.104. 

 (Walker) Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by 

 Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species — p. 105-136. Of the total 



