378 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
timber ; Pogonocherus ovalis, on the sallows, after they 
began to lose their catkins in May ; Lebia hemorrhoidalis, on 
the catkins of the sallows, a single specimen on those of the 
birch, and another on fern; Chorcebus Rubi, and other 
Buprestidee, on the catkins of the birch; Lamia tristis, 
Helops sulphureus, Bembidium paludosum, and a great 
number of Curculionidae, Hydrophilide, and of the genera 
Agabus and Cryptocephalus. 
M. V0 Abbé Fettig —M.V Abbé Fettig, an entomologist, who, 
during the early part of the occupation of Alsace by the 
Prussians, had been imprisoned at Strasbourg, has been 
released. His collections have received no injury. 
Phlaedes obcordata.—In a collection of insects, made in 
the east of Siberia, Mr. Pascoe has detected a specimen 
of the genus Phleedes, closely allied to, if not identical with, 
the P. obcordata of Kirby (Nosoderma obcordata), a species 
hitherto supposed to be confined to the United States. This 
extension of the geographical range of the genus is very 
interesting. 
New Books.—The 14th fasciculus of Mulsant’s ‘ Opuscula 
Entomologica’ is just published. The 8rd volume of the 
‘Natural History of the Hemiptera of France’ will be ready 
in a few days, and will contain four tribes. M. Mulsant has 
published the new edition of his ‘History of the Lamel- 
licorns of France,’ as well as the Ist part of the ‘ Staphylinide.’ 
A new edition of the ‘Iconography and Natural History of 
Larve of Lepidoptera, by MM. Duponchel and Guenée, is 
about to be issued: the work gives descriptions and figures 
of a great number of the larve of European Lepidoptera, of 
course including English species; these figures are contained 
in ninety-three plates, excellently coloured: the work is 
published in forty fasciculi, at 1 franc each. Of the 
Iconography and Description of unpublished Lepidoptera 
of Europe, by P. Miulhiére, twenty-five fasciculi have 
been published, and these contain more than a thousand 
descriptions of larvae, pupz and perfect insects, with the 
plants on which the larve feed, and other details of their 
life-history: the work is worthy the support of all lovers 
of the Science; nothing can exceed the delicacy and finish 
‘of the figures: we regret, however, to observe, a sad confusion 
of names in the instance of Cidaria russata and immanata; 
