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On some new species of iN'udi branchiate mollusca from the 



Eastern Seas, by Dr. Cuthbert, Collingwood. 

 On the development of Filaria sanguis hominis ; and on the 



Mosquito considered as a nurse, by Dr. Patrick 



Manson. 

 On the Life History of Filaria Bancroftii, by Dr. Cobbold. 

 On the Geographical Distribution of the Gulls and Terns, 



by Mr. Howard Saunders. 

 Before the Entomological Society of London : — 



Descriptions of new species of Hymenopterous Insects from 



New Zealand, by Frederick Smith. 

 Descriptions of eight new species, and a new genus of 



Cossonidce from New Zealand, by D. Sharp. 

 On the different forms occurring in the Coleopterous family 

 Lycidce, with descriptions of new genera and species, by 

 Charles 0. Waterhouse. 

 Descriptions of new genera and species of Cleridoe, by the 



Rev. H. S. Gorham. 

 On new Coleoptera from Australia and Tasmania in the col- 

 lection of the British Museum, by Mr. C. 0. Water- 

 house. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, for the 

 year 1878, so far as received, contain little exclusively 

 Australian matter, though the articles are almost without ex- 

 ception of the highest interest. But Mr. E. L. Layard, British 

 Consul at New Caledonia, publishes in p. 374 of Yol. L, 5th 

 Series, Descriptions of new species of Birds, from the Island of 

 Lifu, New Caledonia. Professor F. W. Hutton, of Otago, New 

 Zealand, has written in the same volume, p. 407, a Paper on the 

 number of the Cervical Vertebrae in Dinornis. We also observe 

 an Emendatory Description of Parisiphonia ClarJcii, Bk., a Hexac- 

 tinellid Fossil Sponge, from N.W. Australia, by H. J. Carter 

 F.R.S., &c. ; Descriptions of Longicorn Coleoptera, by F. P. 

 Pescoe, F.L.S., &c. ; and Descriptions of new Gallerucince^ by 

 Joseph T. Baly, F.L.S. 



Among the papers published by foreign Societies may be men- 

 tioned: — In the Annali del Museo Civico di St. Nat. di Genova, 



