hi 
Coleoptera have also been described and figured in the other 
papers by Professor Westwood. 
Mr. Smith has elsewhere called attention to the fallacies of Dr. 
Kriechbaumer’s method of killing and preparing hymenopterous 
insects for the cabinet; while vindicating his own mode of pro- 
ceeding, infinitely superior in its results and far less complicated. 
The attention of all students of this Order may be advantageously 
directed to the system advocated by Mr. Smith.* 
Two parts of the second series of the ‘Transactions of the 
Linnean Society,’ section ‘ Zoloogy,’ have been published—to be 
separated henceforth from the Botanical portion, as in their 
‘Journal of Proceedings ;’—-the first of which contains a paper 
“On some Atlantic Crustacea from the Challenger Expedition,” 
by the late Dr. vy. Willemoes-Suhm; with descriptions of several 
blind deep-sea species, including a remarkable Astacus (A. Zaleu- 
cus) taken near Sombrero Island, W. I., in 450 fathoms, “ one of 
the claws of which is developed to an extraordinary extent.” 
This paper is illustrated by eight plates (tab. vi.—xiil.). 
Descriptions of two new species of Crustacea from New 
Zealand, by Captain F. W. Hutton; a paper on the Genus 
Bathyporeia, by the Rev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing; another paper 
on some new exotic Sessile-eyed Crustaceans, by the same; a 
paper on the Genus Deidamia, by Mr. James Wood Mason; and 
one on some new or undescribed species of Crustacea from the 
Samoa Islands, by Mr. Edw. J. Miers, have appeared in the 
‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History.’ 
“A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Professor 
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz,” under the title of ‘‘ The Spiders of 
the United States,” has recently been published in a connected 
form among the ‘Occasional Papers’ of the Boston Society of 
Natural History (vol. ii., 1875), illustrated by twenty-one elaborate 
‘plates; these papers having originally appeared from time to time, 
extending over a long series of years, in the ‘ Proceedings’ of that 
Society and in some other publications. They are now supple- 
mented ,with a considerable number of notes, descriptions and 
synonymical remarks, by Mr. J. H. Emerton and by Mr. W. E. 
Holden, together with two new plates. Many highly inte- 
resting observations on the habits of these spiders are dispersed 
throughout the series. 
* Vide Ent, M, Mag., Aug,, p. 62, 
