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Complete Catalogue of described Coleoptera. — An important and veiy useful 

 work is about to appear in Baron von Harold's " Coleopterologisclie Hefte," pub- 

 lished at Munich. It is a complete Catalogue of all described species of Coleoptera, 

 on which the author, in conjunction with Dr. Gemminger, has been engaged for 

 the last ten years. The first instalment of the work will appear in Part. iii. of the 

 " Hefte," early in the coming year, and will comprise the Cicindelidce and part of 

 the Carabidae. 



New French Entomological Magazine. — Mr. James Thomson, of Paris, has com- 

 menced a new serial under the title of " Physis." The first part contains three 

 articles, all from the pen of the editor and proprietor, viz., 1 — on a New Classifica- 

 tion of Longicom Coleoptera, in which the views of Schiodte are criticised, and some 

 of his amendments introduced ; 2 — a Eevision of the Dorcadionidoe, giving a review 

 of 35 genera and 219 species comprised in the group ; and 3 — a description of a 

 new species of Chelona/rium (ByrrhidoBj. 



Mr. Darwin's great work. — It must be gratifying to the cultivators of Philo- 

 Bophical Zoology to learn that no fewer than 1,200 copies of Mr. Darwin's new 

 work on " Variation under Domestication " were subscribed for at Mr. Murray's 

 autumn sale the other day. The work is the first section of the magnus opus, 

 "the origin of species by variation and natural selection" — the development of 

 the theory, with all details of experiment and observation^-of which the small 

 octavo volume previously published was only a brief summary. It is well known 

 that a very large proportion of Mr. Darwin's illustrations of his theory is taken 

 from Entomology. 



Entomological Society of London, November 4ith, 1867. — Prof. Westwood, 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Bond exhibited some specimens of Lepidoptera new to Britain ; viz., Psyche 

 crassiorella, Bruand ; Catoptria ravulana, Herrich-Schiifier; and Coccyx vemanat 

 Knaggs. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibted a rare species of Mantispidoe, Trichoscelia notha of 

 Klug, from Bahia, remarkable for the strongly-dilated and flattened hinder tibiae : 

 also some cases of gynandromorphism and monstrosity ; viz., an example of Limne- 

 phihis st/riola, Kolenati, in which the abdomen was female, but the rest of the 

 organs combined the characters of both sexes, the right side being male and the 

 left female ; and a completely gynandromorphus specimen of Dolerus madidus, 

 Klug (these two insects were exhibited on behalf of their captor, Mr. B. Cooke, of 

 Manchester) ; a female of Hyhtoma fasciata St. Fargeau, in which the left hinder 

 tibia was divided by a constriction (or joint ?) in the middle, the apical half being 

 much dilated ; and a specimen of Tenthredo scalaris, Klug, with three wings on the 

 right-hand side, the intermediate one with the neuration partaking of the characters 

 of both anterior and posterior. 



Mr. Wood read a paper in which he endeavoured to prove that the tint of the 

 pupae of the White Butterflies, and Pajpilio Machaon, assimilated to that of the 

 surface to which they were affixed, thus securing protection thereby. He exhibited 

 numerous pupae in support of his theory. A discussion ensued, in which Messrs. 

 Weir, Butler, Stainton, and Bond took part, the latter gentleman asserting that, 

 according to his experience, he could not agree with Mr. Wood's arguments. 



Mr. Hewitson communicated a paper on new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



The Rev. Douglas Timins communicated a monograph of the genus Thais, 

 accompanied by coloured figures of all the species. 



Mr. E. Saunders read " A Revision of the Australian Buprestidce described by 

 the late Rev. F. W. Hope." 



