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of intei'est to Indian entomologists, chiefly by Mr. C. Ritsema, among 

 them a description of a new species of the longicorn genus Zonojjteras, 

 Hope, Z. consanguineus, from the Himalaya, resembling Z. Jlavitarsis. 

 Also " On an overlooked East Indian species of the coleopterous genus 

 Chelonarium, Fabr. of the family Byrrhidce.^^ The author shows that 

 G. villosum was described by Macleay in 1825 as occurring in Java, while 

 the genus is supposed to be peculiar to America. Mr. Ritsema also 

 describes a new species of the longicorn genus Pachyteria, Serv., P. 

 vandepolli, from Malacca, and gives preliminary descriptions of new 

 species of the coleopterous genus Helota, Macleay. Four new Indian 

 species are described from Darjiling, and a list is given of the 25 hitherto 

 described species of the genus. Mr. W. L. Distant describes new 

 Malayan Cicadidoi belonging to the Leyden Museum. There are also 

 many notices of new zoological specimens from the Dutch East 

 Indies. 



In the Tijdschriff voor Entomologie Mr. Ritsema has a paper entitled 

 " Chronologische Naamlijst der beschreven soorten van de Cerambyciden 

 genera Zono]jterus, Hope, Pachyteria, Serv. en Ajihrodisium, Thoms," 

 including many species from India and the Oriental Region. 



The Bijdrageit. tot de Pierlcunde of the Zoological Society of Amster- 

 dam contains a paper by Dr. J. T. Oudemans on Thysanura and Col- 

 lembola. 



A paper by Dr. G. Horvath, in TermSsz Filzeteck, is a noteworthy 

 contribution to the knowledge of the little-known Hemipterous fauna of 

 the Himalayas and several new species are described. 



A very valuable monograph on Bees of the genus Evania, by A. 

 Schletterer, appears in the Annalen des K. K. Naturhistorischeii Hof 

 Museums in Wien, and has references to Indian and Oriental species. 



In the Verhandlungeyi der K. K. Zoologisch-hotanischen Gesellschaft 

 in Wien, Messrs. Kohl and Handlirsch give descriptions of several 

 genera of Transcaspian Hymenoptera from the neighbourhood of the 

 Murghab, Amu Darya and Askabad. A. Rogenhofer, in a paper on Lepi- 

 doptera from India and Ceylon, describes a sack-bearing caterpillar 

 found in Ceylon, to which he gives the name Fumea ? limulus. 



The Wiener Entomologische Zeitung contains papers by Dr. G. Hor- 

 vath, on the Hemiptera of Turcomania ; V. von Roder on a new Timia 

 f. (T. pulohra) from Shahrud ; and Jos. Mik, on some Ulidime from the 

 Tekke Turcomania. 



Dr. C. Fickert's paper, in SpengeVs Zoologische Jahrhiicher, " Ueber 

 die zeichnungsverhaltnisse der Gattung Ornltlioptera " refers to several 

 Indian and Asiatic siiecies. 



lu the Entomologische Nachrichten Herr Joh. Schmidt has described 



