108 NOTICE OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. 



Mr. Westwood proposes to term the anterior wings mesalce ! — 

 and to substitute mcdi- and post-thorax for meso- and metathorax! 



4. Recherches Anatomiques et Physiologiques sur les 

 Hemipteres, accompagnees de Considerations relatives a 

 VHistoire Naturelle et a la Classification de ces Insectes ; 

 par M. Leon Dufour. Paris, 1833. — An elaborate essay on 

 the internal anatomy of the Hemiptera, accompanied by a 

 great many figures : we have no room for details. 



5. Annulosa Javanica, ou Description des Insectes de 

 Java, par M. W. S. MacLeay, Esq. ; precedes d'un Extrait 

 des Horce Entomologicce du meme Auteur. Paris, 1833. — 

 MacLeay's Annulosa Javanica, and the systematic part of his 

 Horce Entomologicce, together with several of the plates in 

 both works, are republished in this volume. 



6. Genera et Species Curculionidum, cum Synonymia 

 liujus familice ; a C. J. Schoenherr. Species novce aut hac- 

 tonus minus cognitce, Descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo 

 Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, et Entomologis aliis illustratce. 

 Tomus \ us . Pars \ ma . et 2 da . Parisiis, 1833. —Most ento- 

 mologists must be acquainted with Schoenherr's Classification 

 of the Curculionidas, published some years back. We observe 

 very few alterations in the systematic arrangement of this new 

 edition ; however, the number of species is considerably 

 increased, and many subgenera are raised to the rank of 

 genera. About three hundred genera, besides subgenera, 

 which he terms Greges, are classified ; and the species ranged 

 under these genera amount to upwards of three thousand. 

 They are divided into two great groups ; the Orthoceri, with 

 straight antennas ; and the Gonatoceri, with bent antennas. 

 The characters of some of the species extend nearly over a 

 page, and are too long. 



7. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France. Tome 

 II., Trimestre III, Paris, 1833. — This number contains 

 several valuable papers : among others, — 1. " On the Mouth 

 of Libellulidce, by M. Aug. Brulle." The author remarks, 

 that, in predacious insects, the palpi attain their greatest deve- 

 lopment; and he considers them to be organs of prehension. 



