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Society from which it emanateg deserves great credit for this attempt to disabuse 
the minds of agriculturists and horticulturists of the many popular misapprehensions 
respecting the insect pests by which they are injured and tormented, and to point 
out to them the real history of tlicse natural enemies, and the most reasonable 
means of preventing or mitigating the evils they occasion, by an exposition of their 
modes of life. Our own countrymen engaged in kindred pursuits would probably 
find much in this periodical to interest and instruct them. We wish the Society 
every success in its laudable undertaking. The price (50 cents per annum) at 
which it is issued, cannot possibly recoup the expenses, and, with all justice, the 
deficit is attempted to be made good by advertisements, which figure largely in the 
later numbers. We would suggest that a little supervision as to the class of 
advertisements inserted would be desirable ; one or two savour somewhat of 
quackery. 
A Catalogue of Phytophaga (Coleoptera, Pseudotetramera), by the Rev. 
Hamlet Cl.ark, M.A., F.L.S., Part 1 ; with an appendix containing descriptions of 
new species by H. W. Bates and the Eev. H. Clark ; Williams and Norgate, 
London, and A. Deyeolle, Paris ; 1866. 
To the names of our countrymen, Messrs. Clark and Baly, — so well known in 
connection with the Phytophagous Coleoptera, — must now be added that of Mr. 
Bates as a worthy fellow-labourer in the same field, — with the additional distinction 
that the species he describes so well are of his own taking. The present part of the 
above Catalogue comprises the Scigridce, Donacidce, Crioceridoe, and Megalopid^B of 
the world (giving many references to authors, synonymy, varieties, and localities), — 
being the families included in the first volume of the Monographie des Phytophages 
of Lacordaire. 
Of these families 975 species are here registered, including 368 not known to 
the latter author ; and of these 158 are described in the appendix. The 2nd part 
is promised as soon as Mr. Clark is sufiBciently recovered from his recent serious 
illness to be able to attend to Entomological matters. 
The benefit of concentrating the attention to any particular group is here 
exemplified to the fullest extent ; and, from the differential characters given, it is 
evident that no new species have been passed over by the describers. 
Entomological Society of London. May 7th, 1866. — W. Wilson Saunders, 
Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
W. Stavenhagen Jones, Esq., of 79^, Gracechurch Street, and P. Green, Esq., 
of 11, Finsbury Circus, were elected Members. 
Mr. Borthwick, of Alloa, sent for exhibition some dipterous larvae in the stems 
of wheat, just above the root. These he supposed to be the larvae of Musca (^Chloro2}s) 
puniilionis. 
Mr. McLachlan exhibited a cluster of four round confluent galls on the leaf of 
a dead stem of probably Glechoma hederacea, found recently at Lewisham ; he con- 
sidered them to have been formed by Aulax glechomce, one of the Cynipidce. 
Mr. Bond exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Hearder, a singular variety of Cabera exan- 
themorin (with the colouring of C pusaria). 
