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ment on the authority of Dr. Hagen, who has examined Stephens' original specimeni 

 in the British Museum. Acentropus niveus, too, falls under the same sentence — a 

 conclusion at which, Mr. Newman tells us, he himself had arrived previously. We 

 have no douht he is correct in that opinion ; but when he goes on to say that " the 

 propriety of this last-named change had previously been guessed at, but no suffi- 

 cient arguments adduced in its support," we are obliged to demur, remembering 

 the reasons assigned by Kolenati. nearly ten years ago, for referring this insect to 

 the family Pyraliciae. (C. R. Bree, and Edward Parfitt) Corrections of previous 

 Errors. (Bracy Clark) Further Note ofi the supposed new CEstrus. It is truly 

 delightful to see the venerable author — Mr. Clark is in his eighty-seventh year — 

 ready to enter the lists again, in which he won his maiden spurs, with more than 

 youthful ardour. We are glad to have confirmed, by such unquestionable authority, 

 the opinion we had ventured previously to give on the species, from the published 

 description. On some other points, touching its relationship and origin, we see no 

 reason to vary from the few brief remarks we have already made — see the number 

 of this Review for last April, p. 59, except by adding that Kellner has proved that 

 O. trompe engenders maggots of the frontal sinus in the Red-deer also ; O. pictus 

 in this and the Fallow-deer. That Oestrus trompe should be the male of 

 O. tarandi, as has been suggested, seems more than improbable. The characters 

 of the two are distinct enough, and the economy different. Besides, both 

 male and female of each is known and described, the sexual differences 

 being apparent, either in the comparative breadth of the front, or the charac- 

 teristic structure of the posterior segments. (Edward Newman) New Helophilus. 

 (T. J. Bold) Capture of a Fossorial Hymenopterous Insect, new to Britain. 

 (Edward Newman) Rare British Coleoptera. (G. R. Waterhouse) List of the 

 British species of Aleocharidae. A really valuable contribution to the synonymy 

 of the Coleoptera of Europe, and the critical study of the native Fauna. The list 

 will be especially, but not exclusively, interesting to British entomologists. We 

 have little doubt that the preparation of the materials for these five pages has cost 

 the conscientious author as much pains, at least, as many another writer has 

 expended on the composition of some pretentious essay extending over as many 

 sheets perhaps. Mr. Waterhouse promises to give hereafter some remarks on the 

 species enumerated ; we shall look for these with impatience. We miss from the 

 list one genus, Diglossa, which we do not know that it has ever been proposed 

 before to exclude from this family. (T. V. Wollaston) Note on the Dromius 

 glabratus of British Cabinets. After a very careful examination of the Stephensian 

 Cabinet, Mr. Wollaston has found that there are two species of Dromius con- 

 founded under the name glabratus — namely, the D. glabraius and D. maurus. 

 The former species is easily known from the latter, not only by its uniformly 

 larger size, but by its elytra being proportionately less abbreviated ; their striae 

 more apparent ; by its prothorax being rather more quadrate ; and by its head and 

 antenna? being larger and more robust. Proceedings of Societies. — Entomo- 

 logical, Zoological, and Society of Northern Entomologists. (Cap. V. H. W. 

 Hadfield) Reason and Instinct. 



Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ; exhibiting a View of the Progres- 

 sive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and Arts. Edited by Thomas 

 Anderson, M.D. ; Sir W. Jardine, Bart.; J. H. Balfour, M.D. ; and, for 

 America, H. D. Rogers, F.G.S., &c. No. 10. April, 1857: published quarterly, 

 8vo. Price 6s. ; with four Plates and a Map. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. 

 No. 10. April. — (Lorin Blodget) Distribution of Heat in the North American 

 Climate, with a map. (Andrew Murray) Description of new Coleoptera from the 

 Western Andes and the neighbourhood of Quito ; with a plate. (H. F. Baxter) 

 On the Influence of Magnetism over Chemical action. (Sir W. Jardine, Bart.) 

 Contributions to Ornithology, No. IV. (Rev. W. S. Symonds) Correlation of the 

 Triassic Rocks in the Vale of Worcester and at the Malvern Tunnel. (Kev. P. B. 

 Brodie, A.M.) On some species of Corals in the Lias of Gloucestershire, Worces- 

 tershire, Warwickshire, and Scotland. (William Crowder) Chemistry of the Iron 



