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with the English Fauna.* In endeavouring to make such a necessary comparison we 

 have been struck with the preponderence of species of Nematus and the paucity of 

 representatives in Eylotoma, &c., in Scotland. Some Hyloiomce that we in the south 

 of England are disposed to consider "common objects " are apparently wanting across 

 the border. 



We regard this Catalogue as a good prelude to the work on British Saw-flies that 

 Mr. Cameron is known to have in preparation for publication by the Ray Society. 

 That it is occasionally marred by literary defects is to be regretted, such, for instance, 

 as is shown in the note on Eriocampa adumlrata (p. 24), any attempt to translate 

 which would, we think, drive an intelligent foreigner to the verge of distraction. 



Synopsis des Hemipteees-Heteropteees de France, ler Partie, Lygseides. 

 Deyrolle, Paris. 



The above is the title of an excellent monograph just published by the well known 

 French Hemipterist, Dr. Puton. It is hardly necessary to say that the work is well 

 done. All the species indigenous to France are described in it, and the genera and 

 species are also worked out, showing their distinctive characters in very clear synop- 

 tical tables. After each species are given localities and the food-plant of the insect 

 when known. About 157 species are described, making about three-fifths of the total 

 number of Eui'opean species, as given in Dr. Puton's last Catalogue. 



The work will be of the greatest value to those who wish to distinguish the 

 closely allied species of this family. — E. S. 



^bituarn. 



Carl Stal. As already noted (p. 72, ante), entomological science has sustained 

 a great and irreparable loss, the distinguished Swedish Hemipterist, Carl Stal, having 

 died after a short illness on the 13th June last, at Frosundavik, near Stockholm, at 

 the age of only 45 years. 



He was born on 21st March, 1833, at the Castle of Carlberg, where his fother, 

 Colonel Stal, was then stationed ; was a student at the University at Upsala in 1853 ; 

 passed the medico-philosophical examination in 1857, and then for some time studied 

 anatomy and physiology at Stockholm. After a journey abroad he became, in 1859, 

 Assistant to Professor Boheman in the Entomological Section of the National Zoo- 

 logical Museum, and, after the death of Professor Boheman in 1867, he was appointed 

 by the Academy of Sciences Superintendent of the Section with the title of Professor. 

 He had previously taken the degree of Doctor in Philosophy at Jena. 



Both before and after his nomination he contributed by scientific excursions in 

 his native country to the knowlege of its insect-fauna, having for this purpose visited 

 the island Gottland in 1849 and 1863, the provinces Skane, in 1853, and Angerman- 

 land, in 1858. By many journeys to G-ermany, France, Denmark, and also to England 

 (1862), and by studies at the museums abroad, he further extended his knowledge in 

 entomology, and his " Hemiptera Fabriciana," vols, i and ii (K. Yet. Akad. Handl., 



* To a foreigner such an omission must prove especially puzzling. He will be apt to take it 

 for gi-anted that such genera as Schizocera, Harpiphorug, Arc, do not occur in England. 



