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the same; of a new Species of Prosopoccelus (Lucanide), by 
Major IF. J. Sydney Parry; of new Genera and Species of 
Heteromera, pl. vi., vii., by Professor Westwood; also of Rutelide 
inhabiting Eastern Asia and the Islands of the Malayan Archi- 
pelago, pl. vili.; of a new Genus of Cleride (comprising seven 
new species) from the last-mentioned region, pl. ix.; and of a 
new Species of Lucanide, with a note on Lissotes obtusatus, by 
the same author. 
Professor Hermann Burmeister, of Buenos Ayres, has also 
described a new Coleopterous Genus belonging to the Family 
Scaritide, found on tbe shore of the River Uruguay, which he 
has dedicated to Professor Westwood, under the name of Obadius 
insignis. 
In Neuroptera:—On the Neuropterous Fauna of Japan (exclu- 
ding Odonata and Trichoptera), by Mr. R. McLachlan. 
In Hymenoptera :—Descriptions ofnew Indian Aculeate Species, 
pl. i., by Mr. Frederick Smith ; and of new Species belonging to 
the Genus Nomia, pl. ii., by the same; also of other new Species 
belonging to this Genus of Short-tongued Bees, pl. iv., v., by 
Professor Westwood. 
In Lepidoptera :—Contributions towards a Knowledge of the 
Rhopalocera of Australia, by Mr. A. G. Butler; and a List of the 
Lepidoptera referable to the Genus Hypsa of Walker's List, with 
Descriptions of new Genera and Species, by the same author. 
In Hemiptera:—Synopsis of British Hemiptera-Heteroptera, 
Parts I. and II., by Mr. Edward Saunders, 
The Supplementary Part of our Transactions for 1874 also 
appeared in March last, accompanied by four Plates belonging to 
Memoirs of that year. 
The considerable number of new species of the remarkable 
genus Nomia, described in the three papers aforesaid, by Mr. 
Frederick Smith and Professor Westwood, deserves special notice; 
forty-five hitherto unrecorded species of that genus having thus 
been added to the list by the former, and sixteen more by the latter, 
many of these being admirably figured in the accompanying 
Plates; and the peculiar structural diversities exhibited in the 
legs of the males being carefully delineated in numerous other 
instances. These notable Memoirs constitute a valuable addition 
to our ‘'T'ransactions’ of the year, and their juxtaposition in the 
same volume is a felicitous coincidence. Many remarkable 
