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M. Eugéne Simon has published the second volume of his 
‘ Arachnides de France,’ containing descriptions of a large number 
of new species and of some new genera. 
The Rev. O. P. Cambridge has described many new species of 
Erigone in the ‘ Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ 
(parts 1, 2, 8); also a new species of Lophistius, in the British 
Museum, from Penang; some new and rare British spiders; and 
three new curious forms of Arachnida, in the ‘Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History.’ 
Mr. A. G. Butler has also described some new species of spiders 
from Queensland, in the ‘ Cistula Entomologica’ (pars xii., pl. x.); 
and others from New Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion, have 
been described in the aforesaid publication of the Zoological 
Society, by Dr. Thorell (part 2, pl. xxv.). 
A formidable species of stridulating Mygale, from Assam, has 
been described by Mr. Wood Mason in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal’ (November, 1875), under the name of 
M. stridulans. This faculty of emitting powerful chirping sounds 
is common to both sexes, which are furnished alike with a kind 
of comb within the jaws, presenting a number of chitinous elastic 
teeth, acted upon by a denticulate scraper on the exterior region 
of the chelicere. 
We are indebted to Mr. F. P. Pascoe for several papers in the 
‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ consisting of notes 
and descriptions of new genera and species of Longicornia 
(pl. viii., January); of new Asiatic species of Rhynchites (June) ; 
of new Australian Curculionide (pl. 1, July); and of new 
genera and species of Coleoptera from New Zealand (pl. v., 
September). 
Descriptions of new species of Kumorphus and Corynomalus, 
by the Rev. H.S. Gorham; of Trigoneurus, and of exotic Hydro- 
philide, by Dr. Sharp; of Coleoptera from Morocco, by Messrs. 
H. W. Bates and T. V. Wollaston; of Longicornia from South 
America, by Mr. W. H. Bates; of Prionidee, by the same; of 
exotic Phytophaga, by Mr. J. S. Baly; and of three new Aniso- — 
tomide (from Scotland, Siberia and Algiers), by Mr. E. C. Rye; 
have likewise appeared in the ‘ Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine.’ 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse has described several new genera and 
species of Coleoptera from South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, 
and the Seychelles, in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural 
