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authors. Hister 4t-maculatus is very distinct. PI. 471. 

 Adactylus Bennetii, (Lepidoptera Tineidae). This belongs 

 to the genus Agdistes of Hiibner; and his Agdistes adacty- 

 lus is AdacUjlus Hubneri of Curtis. PI. 472. Smiera Mac- 

 leanii, (Hymenoptera Chalcididse). This is the Chalets 

 melanaris of Dalman. PI. 473. Drosophila cameraria, 

 (Diptera Muscidse) ; 474. Hallomenus flexuosus, (Coleoptera 

 Helopiidse) ; 475. Oj)hiusa lusoria, (Lepidoptera Noctuidas) ; 



476. Leiophron apicalis, (Hymenoptei'a Ichneumonidae) ; 



477. Tachydromia arrogans, (Diptera Tachydromiidae) ; 



478. Synodendron cylindricum, (Coleoptera Lucanidae) ; 



479. Gracillaria anastomosis, (Lepidoptera Tineidae) ; 



480. Oxybelus argentatus, (Hymenoptera Larrida^) ; 481. 

 Lygceus euuestris, (Hemiptera Coreidae). 



We may remark, that some of his figures are much too highly 

 coloured. 



2. Stephens' 's British Entomology. No. 59. — This 

 Number is devoted to the Staphijlinidce, and has two Plates, 

 one of Coleoptera, the other of Diptera. 



3. Magazine of Natural History. No. 35. — " A Notice 

 of the Ravages of the Cane - fly, a small - winged Insect, 

 including some Facts on its Habits ; by a Subscriber in 

 Grenada: with additional Observations by J. O. Westwood, 

 Esq. F. L.S." &c. Mr. Westwood gives it the name of Del- 

 phax Saccharivora, and compiles from Kirby, Spence, &c, 

 an account of some of the Insects supposed to be injurious to 

 the sugar-cane. — " An interesting Account of the Economy of 

 a Species of Ichneumon, by Mr. E. W. Lewis; communicated 

 by Mr. Westwood :" also, " Descriptions of Genera of Parasitic 

 Hymenoptera, by Mr. Westwood :" — Epicopterus, Smarag- 

 dites, Closterocerus, Cephalonomia, and Epimeces. 



No. 36. Mr. Westwood on the Cynipidce, with descriptions 

 of some Hymenopterous genera: three new — Cerapterocerus, 

 Derostenus, and Myrmecomorphus. We are acquainted with 

 no essay, by Mr. Haliday, in which he uses the terms pr opes, 

 or metapes, or metala. In our Magazine, and in the Zoological 

 Journal, he always writes pes-anticus, or 2 )0S ^ cus i anc ^ a ^ a 

 postica, or inferior :— like Meigen, he uses metatarsus anticus 

 or posticus for the basal joint of the anterior or posterior tarsi. 



