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undertaken a beautifully illustrated nionograpli of the fiunilv Cefo- 

 )nil(e\ which is now in course of publication. 



The splendid i'mmly JBi/prestidxe has been enriched with some sin- 

 gidar species from Madagascar'-, and has been revised by M. Esch- 

 scholtz^ and M. Sober*, each of whom have added numerous generic 

 groups. 



7"he Elaleridce have in like manner been re\ised by Eschscholtz ^ 

 and by Latreille'% whilst the B/i/piccridce'^ and Lampyrida^ have 

 been submitted to similar treatment by M. Laportc. 



M. Sober has undertaken the difficult task of illustrating the He- 

 teromera, and his first nremoir, published in the Annals of the 

 French Entomological Society '\ affords promise of great value. Esch- 

 scholtz likewise added many new genera belonging to the Melasoma 

 in the ' Zoologischer Atlas' above noticed ; and M. Gnerin has more 

 recently commenced the task of illustrating the same division in his 

 ' Magasin de Zoologie '. I need not do more than name the nearly com- 

 pleted work of Schonherr upon the CurculionidtE '°, a family supposed 

 to be connected with the Ceramhycidce by a series of Xylophagous 

 insects, portions of which, belonging to the family CitcKJidce, I have 

 submitted to a minute examination, the result of which has been pub- 

 lished in the Zoological Journal". 



Whilst, in the last place, the distribution of the Ceramhycida given 

 by M. Serville in various numbers of the Annals of the French En- 

 tomological Society ' - cannot fail to be of essential benefit. 



Stuepsiptera — Our attention has very recently been called to the 

 very rare and interesting group of parasitic insects Strepsiptera, of 

 which a very decided new species, named Sfy/ops Spcncii (in honour 

 of one of our distinguished honorary members), has been described, 

 and its habits detailed to us by Mr. Pickering. Two other new ^e- 

 nev2i, Elenrh us smA Halictophagus, ha^e been published inMr. Cui'tis's 

 ' British Entomology '. 



Hymenoptera. — The highly interesting order Hymenoptera has 

 lately attracted much of the attention of entomologists, and it is un- 

 derstood that a general work upon the order by the Count de St. Far- 

 geaii will shortly appear in Paris. 



Dr. King has recommenced his memoii's upon the Tenthredinida; m 

 the 'Jahrbucher der Insectenkunde' above noticed; whilst the great 



' Monographic cles Cetoines et genres voisin. Par Messrs. Gory et Percheron. 

 Paris, 1833—1835. 8vo. With coloured plates. 



- Figured at the same time and under different names by M. Guerin in his Ma- 

 gasin de Zoologie, and by Dr. Klug in his account of the Madagascar Coleoptera. 



a Zoologischer Atlas. Von Dr. Fr. Esehscholtz. Erstes Hefte. Folio, 1829. 

 Berlin. 



* Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, Vol. II. Pt. II. 



'• In Thon's Entomologisches Archiv for 1829. 



« Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, Vol. III. Pt. I. 



7 lb. Vol. III. Pt. II. » lb. Vol. II. Pt. I. 9 lb. Vol. III. Pt. III. 



"• Synonyma Insectoruni Genera et Species Curculionidum. Paris, 1833-1834. 



" No. 18. p. 213. 



»2 Vol. I. Pt. II. (Prionids) Vol. II. Pt. IV. and Vol. III. Pt. I. (Cerambycidiie). 



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