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Genera and Species of Lepidoptera from South Africa (December). 
Also, in the ‘ Illustrated Proceedings of the Zoological Society,’ 
Descriptions of thirty-three new or little-known Sphingide in 
the Collection of the British Museum (part 1, pl.i., 11.); of four 
new species of Protogonius (tbid., pl. v.); of other new Species of 
Sphingide (part 2, pl. xxxvi., xxxvu.); and of Indian Hetero- 
cerous Lepidoptera (part 3). Likewise, in the ‘ Cistula Entomo- 
 logica,’ a Revision of the Genus Spilosoma and the allied Groups 
of the Family Arctiide (pars xiy.). And, in the ‘ Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine, —Notes on Mr. Scudder’s “ Historical Sketch. 
of the Generic Names proposed for Butterflies” (June); and a 
Revision of the Genus Kusemia, with Descriptions of new Species 
(October).. 
We are further indebted to Mr. Butler for descriptions of three 
new Species of Homopterous Insects in the ‘ Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society’ (part 4, 1874); and for a List of the Species 
of the Homopterous Genus Hemispheerius, with Descriptions of 
new Species in the Collection of the British Museum (‘ Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,, Aug., 1875). 
M. Signoret has* concluded his exhaustive Mémoire on the 
Coccide, in seventeen parts, the latter portion (14—17) having 
appeared in the ‘Annales’ of the French Entomological Society 
during the past year, leaving only some supplementary notes and 
general tables to be appended thereto. 
A posthumous Monograph by Dr. F. X. Fieber on the Euro- 
pean Cicadinze occupies several recent parts of the ‘ Révue et 
Mag. de Zoologie.’ | 
Dr. Puton has published a second edition of his Catalogue of the 
Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, 
with considerable additions, comprising also the Homoptera. 
Various papers on British MHemiptera-Heteroptera and 
-Homoptera, by Messrs. Douglas and Scott, have also appeared 
in the ‘ Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine.’ 
Professor Westwood has likewise communicated to the same 
periodical (April) the description of a new Pulicideous insect from 
Ceylon (Sarcopsyllus gallinaceus), which attacks the domestic fowl, 
attaching itself firmly by its rostrum in considerable numbers 
around the eyes and neck, whereof specimens were exhibited at 
one of our meetings (June). . 
Papers on the arrangement of the British Anthomyiide, by 
