52 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Linnjea Entomologica. Journal, Annual, of the Entomological. 

 Association of Stettin. 8vo. Stettin. Vol. XI. 1857. 

 (Kraatz) Illustrations of the genera of Aleocharini ; with two plates — p. 1-43. 

 As a supplement to Erichson's Monograph, and accordingly written in Latin. 

 Figures of the parts of the mouth are given to illustrate the new genera established 

 by the author in the Insects of Germany, and others which required corrections. 

 The following new genera are established for exotic insects — Hoplandria, Homalota 

 terminata Er., and three new species, all American ; Philotermes, three new species, 

 inhabiting the nests of termites in the United States of N. America; Oxysoma, a single 

 species found in ants' nests in Kgypt. All these belong to the first sub-tribe ; no 

 new genera have occurred in the Gyrophaenini or Gymnusini. (Same) The in- 

 sects that inhabit the nests of the Termites — p. 44 56. In addition to Philotermes, 

 before named, and the genera Corotoca and Spirachtha of Schioedte, three more 

 new genera of Aleocharini are characterised here, Ccenonica, Tetrasticta, Peliop- 

 tera, and ten new species of Myrmedonia. The species of Poms Hope probably belong 

 to the same category. (Suffrian) The Cryptocephali of Africa — p. 57-256. 

 The additional forms from this quarter have increased the table of the genera given 

 in Vol. IX. with two new ones, Ccenobius, the South African representative of 

 Monachus, and remarkable on account of the large eyes meeting on the front in 

 both sexes, and Achcenops, a singular form, here placed between Pachybrachys and 

 the genuine Cryptocephali. ( Gerstaecker) Contribution to the history of exotic 

 Stratiomydae ; with a plate — p. 261-350. A Monograph of the genus Cyphomia, 

 of which thirty-four species are described, including ten new species, and four that 

 the author has not seen, the descriptions of which are copied. Two new genera 

 are proposed, Chordonota for Cyph. inermis Wied., and Euparyphus for C. elegans 

 Wied. The rest of this essay is, as the author himself describes it, more frag- 

 mentary, being devoted to the description of remarkable new species of various 

 genera in the Berlin Museum, and the characters of several new genera, Pycno- 

 malla for Stratiomys splendens Fabr., and S. auriflua Er. ; Blastocera, Spyridvpa, 

 and Panacris, new forms which, along with Acanthina and Chauna, may compose 

 a peculiar section in the family. (Frey) Revision of the Nepticulaa— p. 351 447. 

 This genus, containing the minutest forms in the order Lepidoptera, presents one 

 of the most striking instances of what has been done, and what remains to be done 

 for native Entomology, by diligent and concentrated labour. Haworth, the first 

 aut nor who makes an epoch in the history of the group, knew ten British species in 

 1828. Zeller gave thirteen European species in his Monograph of the genus 

 published in 1848. Stainton has recorded thirty-four British species, and has been 

 enabled to give the history in full of not less than twenty-one in his beautiful work, 

 the Natural History of the Tineina, Vol. I., London : 1855. In the present 

 essay the number of European species is brought up to fifty-eight, of which three, 

 JV. aucuparice, lonicerarum, aceris, are new additions. 



Zeitschrift fuer Entomologie im Auftrage des Vereins fuer Schle- 

 sische Insectenkunde. Journal of the Entomological Association 

 of Silesia. Edited by A. Assmann. 8vo. Breslau. 



Vol. IX. A.D. 1855. 

 Lepidoptera. — (Prittwitz) Addenda to the Lepidopterous Fauna of Silesia — 

 p. 1, 2. (Same) Cucullia fraudatrix Eversmann, a species new to Silesia — p. 

 3, 4. (Assmann) Remarks on the preceding articles, and on the distinction 

 between the species of Argynnis, pales and arsilache — p. 5-14. (Same) On the 

 early states of Noctua confiua Fr., and on a Hermaphrodite of this species ; with a 

 plate — p. 15-28. (Neustadt) Notes on the species of Lepidoptera that occur 

 about Grasfenberg and on the Altvater in Austrian Silesia — p. 29-36. Coleop- 

 tera — (Letzner) A classified Catalogue of the Larvae of European Coleoptera 

 observed and described up to this time, with references to the authorities ; with two 

 plates — p. 1-77. Taken in great part from the Catalogue of Chapuis and Candeze, 

 but contains some species in addition, and some references not included in this. 

 (Same) The larva-cases of Clythra scopolina L., Cryptocephalus pini L., and Cr. 



