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NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



The number of new Entomological publications during the 

 past season has not been oppressively great. 



The first in order of appearance was an instalment of a 



CATALOGUE OF BRITISH COLEOPTERA. 

 By G. R. Waterhouse, F.Z.S., &c. 



The first part of which (price 2s., or, if printed only on one side 

 for labelling collections, 2s. 6d.), containing the Geodephaga, Hy- 

 dradephaga and Brachelytra, was published in April. 



The importance of this work can scarcely be overrated, and we 

 are glad to hear there is a prospect of the speedy appearance of a 

 further portion of it. When the Catalogue is complete, probably 

 some Coleopterist will take courage and undertake to supply that 

 other great want, a work describing all our British Beetles. 



When the year was further advanced another Catalogue 

 reached us, — 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 

 NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. By 



George Wailes, Member of the Entomological Societies 

 of London, France and Stettin. 



This Catalogue extends to 46 pages, and only reaches to the end 

 of the Sphingina, thus showing clearly that it is not a mere list of 

 names ; and truly it contains much valuable local information, 

 whilst the critical remarks at pp. 24—35, establishing the specific 

 identity of Artaxerxes and Agestis, will be read with interest by 

 all who have studied the range of variation of species. 



Mr. Gregson's Catalogue of The Lepidopterous Insects 



