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(2.) Part IV of Mr. Distanc's monograph on Oriental Cicadicta, 

 published by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum. This part, 

 ■which comprises about 42 species and is beautifully illustrated, brings 

 the work down to the genus Cicada, which is the last in the family ; it 

 may therefore be hoped that the monograph will soon be completed. The 

 Cicadidre are a small group of insects which attract some attention in 

 India on account of the species which sing so lustily in the still air of 

 the Himalayas. 



(3.) The second part of Mr. "Wood-Mason's Catalogue of Mantodea, 

 published by order of the Trustees of the Indian Museum. This part, 

 which is illustrated with two excellent plates, deals with nineteen 

 species of Mantidse from different parts of the world. It includes 

 descriptions of two new species from the Indian region. 



(4.) Parts 4 to 7 of Mr. Moore's extensive work on the Lepidoptera 

 of India. The seven parts of this book that have appeared deal alto- 

 gether with 78 species of Euploeinae ; and the scope of the undertaking 

 may be gathered from the fact that, on the present scale, something like 

 800 quarto plates and 2000 pages of letterpress of corresponding size will 

 be required for the description of the butterflies alone. 



(5.) Mr. Watson's Hesperidce Indices (Vest and Co., Madras). 

 This is a useful compilation of descriptions of Indian Hesperida?, which 

 have hitherto been scattered over a number of more or less inaccessible 

 publications. 



Numerous papers and reports on Indian Entomology have, as usual, 

 appeared in the serials of the past year. 



In the Journal of this Society, Dr. J. H. Tull Walsh gives an in- 

 teresting account of some spiders which mimic ants. Mr. Dohcrty 

 describes a number of new and rare Indian Lycsenidac, besides contri- 

 buting some valuable notes on the butterflies of the little known islands 

 of En"-ano, Sumba, and Sumbawa in the Malay Archipelago. Mons. 

 Bigot contributes the first part of his Catalogue of the Diptera of the 

 Oriental Region, and the Rev. A. E. Eaton furnishes a paper on the 

 Ephemeridoa of the Indian Museum. 



In the Scientific Memoirs by Medical Officers of the Army of India* 

 Dr. J. II. Tull Walsh writes on the habits of certain harvesting ants 

 which he found at work both at Pooree and on the Maidan in Calcutta. 

 In Indian Museum Notes, Lord Walsingham describes a new 

 species of Tineidae which attacks tea in Ceylon; Mons. Bigot describes 

 a new fly which attacks melons in Baluchistan ; Mr. MaskelJ describes 

 some new species of Ooecidee which attack tea and other plants; Mr. 

 Moore anil Mr. G. C. Dudgeon write on :i new Psychid which attacks the 

 Sal tree in the Darjoeling district ; Mr. Cotes gives a number of notes on 



