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Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. New Series. 



Vol. IV. Part III. ; with three plates. Price 3s. 8vo. London. 1857. 



(Newman) Characters of a few apparently undescribed Insects, collected by- 

 James Gibson, Esq., at Moreton Bay, N. Australia — p. 51-57. (Saunders, 

 W. W.) Transformations of Natal Lepidoptera; with three plates — p. 58. 

 The plates, from drawings by Mr. R. W. Plant, contain coloured figures of the 

 Larva and Pupa, or the Cocoon, of Papilio potycenes, Atlacus mythwma, Anthona 

 arata, and some other species undetermined. Egybolia vaillantina Boisd., and 

 Lebeda cuneilinea Walker, n. sp., are also illustrated, in all stages. (West- 

 wood) Notes on the Wing veins of Insects — p. 60-64. A critique of Mr. New- 

 man's article noticed, p. 61, Notices of Serials, in Volume III. of this Review. 

 ( Wollaston) A. Revision of the British Atomarise ; with observations on the 

 genus— -p. 64-82. A masterly contribution to the classification of the native 

 Coleoptera, based on a critical examination of the original specimens in the 

 collections of Marsham and Stephens, along with the materials contributed by 

 other Entomologists living, making a sum total of no less than 1,224 British speci- 

 mens of the genus which have passed under Mr. Wollaston's eye, besides eighty- 

 seven Continental types with which his own cabinet is supplied. He has found 

 the genus merge into Ephistemus so decidedly, that the most important structural 

 difference he could detect is the presence of a minute tooth inside the apex of 

 the mandible in Atomaria. The number of British species admitted is twenty- 

 three, of which only one, A. hislopi, is treated as new, and the somewhat en- 

 tangled synonymy of the others, which were found previously described, is care- 

 fully unravelled. Proceedings, from July 7th to October 6th, 1856 — pp. 16. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ; including Zoology, Botany, 

 and Geology. No. 112, April; No. 113, May; No. 114, June, 1857. 8vo., 

 with Plates. Price 2s. 6<3. each. London : Taylor and Francis. 

 No. 112, April. (W. R. Parker and T. Rupert Jones) Description of some 

 Foraminifera from the coast of Norway ; with two plates. ( Richard Howse, South 

 Shields) Notes on the Permian System of the Counties of Durham and Northum- 

 berland. (Andrew Murray) List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the 

 west coast of Africa; with a plate. (W. H. Benson) New species of Bulimus 

 from India, Burmah, and the Mauritius. (A. Chatin) On the anatomy of Rhinan- 

 thaceae, considered in its relations with the classification of these plants. Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society and Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Miscellaneous. 

 — (J. K. E. Fairholme) Observations on the Pteropus of Australia. (M. Le- 

 prieur) On the Metamorphosis of Trachys pygmaea. (J. E. Gray) On a mon- 

 strosity of Haliotis (albicans?). (W. King) Perforated Structure of Rynchonella 

 geinitziana. (J. E. Gray) On the Nucleus of the Operculum of Cyclostoma 

 elegans. (Ernst Brucke) Object slides of Canary glass. (John Gould) On two 

 new species of Humming Birds, belonging to the genus Amazilius. 



No. 113, May (J. Koren and D. C. Danielssen) Researches on the De- 

 velopment of the Pectinibranchiata ; with two plates. (J. E. Gray) A revi- 

 sion of the Genera of some of the Families of Conchifera or Bivalve Shells ; 

 Part III. Arcadse. (Arthur Adams, F.L.S.) On a new species of the genus 

 Macgillivrayia. (John Nietner, Colombo, Ceylon) Description of New 

 Ceylon Coleoptera. (C. Lespes) Note on a Nematoid Worm, parasitic upon 

 Termites. (John Denis Macdonald, Assis. Sur. R.N.) Brief Description of a 

 Ctenostomatous Polyzoon, allied to Vesicularia, occurring on the Australian 

 Coast, and also an Anatomical Description of a species of Asteroid Polypes, pro- 

 bably forming the type of anew genus of Alcyonidae. Bibliographical Notices. 

 Proceedings of Royal Society. Zoological Society. At one of the meetings of 

 this Society Mr. S. P. Woodward exhibited some Land and Freshwater Shells, 

 collected by Dr. Thompson on the lofty plains of Kashmir and Thibet — the 

 number of species is about 32, one-half of them, strange to relate, being com- 

 mon British forms. If, therefore, these small sand shells originally migrated 

 into our country from the East, we must ascribe to their occupancy of the lofty 



