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Lyceum of Natural History, the Proceedings and Journal of the 

 Boston Society of Natural Ilistory, and the Proceedings of the Phil- 

 adelphia Entomological Society which has lately been established, 

 are scattered memoirs and tracts by Melsheimer, Zicgler, Hentz, 

 Harris, Haldeman, and the two Le Contes, which are mostly upon 

 Coleoptera. Dr. Randall published a paper describing many new 

 beetles from Maine in the Boston Journal. Dr. Clemens has pub- 

 lished in the Philadelphia Journal a synopsis of North American 

 Sphingidae ; and in the Proceedings of the same Society descrip- 

 tions and notes of the habits of the small moths. Mr. Scudder has 

 printed in the Boston Journal " Materials for a monograph of 

 North American Orthoptera ;" and Messrs. Uhler and Walsh have 

 writen upon the Neuroptera of the United States. Mr. Norton 

 has described in the Proceedings of the Boston Society descrip- 

 tions of new Hymenoptera. Baron Osten-Sacken has printed in 

 the Phil. Proceedings an elaborate paper on the Limnohiae, a 

 group of Tipulidae, and also his researches on Gall-flies and their 

 products. 



The insects of British America have been treated of in Kirby's 

 Fauna Boreali-Americana. This well illustrated quarto volume is 

 of special value, since it describes so many insects which are found 

 in Maine. In the New York State Natural History Reports, is a 

 quarto volume, with many plates illustrating the injurious and 

 beneficial insects of that State, by Dr. Emmons. Mention should 

 also be made of the writings of Mr. Townsend Glover on the Cotton 

 and Orange insects of the Southern States, which appeared in 

 several volumes of the Patent OflSce Reports, and of several papers 

 by Le Conte, in the Reports of the Pacific R. R. Exploration, and 

 Stansbury's Report on the Salt Lake. 



There is still needed a general work to combine these scat- 

 tered materials, and the results of further investigations. The 

 Smithsonian Institution is in a great measure supplying this defi- 

 ciency, .and promoting a zeal for these studies that is being 

 manifested throughout the country. Catalogues of the Lepidop- 

 tera, and also a compilation of all the descriptions of the Lepi- 

 doptera of North America as far as the Bombyces, by Dr. Morris ; 

 of the Diptera by Baron Ostcu-Sacken, with a treatise on the 

 Gecidomyce and their galls ; together with Monographs of several 

 Dipterous families by an eminent European Dipterist, M, Loew ; 

 and of the Coleoptera by Dr. jy|elsheimer, revised by Le Conte and 



