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A few notes on the insects of Kerguelen's Land, b)' H. N. 

 Moseley, M. A. /naturalist to H.M.S. ' Challenger,' are published 

 in the 'Journal of the Linnean Society ' (Zool. vol. xii. p. 078). 



Fossil Entomology. 

 In the ' Memoirs of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science ' (vol. i.), a very elaborate treatise is published 

 by Mr. S. H. Scudder on fossil Lepidopterous insects, nine 

 species of which are described and figured in detail, and various 

 additional fossils are described which have been regarded as 

 Lepidopterous, including the Palseontina oolitica, which, from a 

 careful examination of the original specimen and its cast in the 

 Jermyn Street JNluseum, he has determined not to belong to the 

 Lepidoptera, but most probably to the Cicadse. Mr. Scudder 

 has also published a short notice on the fossil Orthoptera of the 

 Rocky Mountain Tertiaries ; also on the fossil Coleoptera of the 

 same stratum (of which he describes thirty- one species). Also 

 the description of the fossil abdomen of a larva dragonfly from 

 the Carboniferous Slate from Cape Breton ; and also the descrip- 

 tions of several fossil species of Thripsidse from the North 

 American Tertiaries, including two new genera, Lithadothrips 

 and PaliBothrips. Also a note on the fossil insects of Cape Breton 

 (Proc. Boston Soc. N. H., vol. xviii. p. 113). 



In the 'Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History' 

 (vol. ii., part 2, No. 3), Mr. S. H. Scudder has also published an 

 article ion the carboniferous myriapods preserved in the Sigil- 

 larian stumps of Nova Scotia. 



Notices of a fossil species of scorpion in the British coal- 

 measures, also of some new macrurous Crustacea from the Kim- 

 meridge-clay and from Boulogne-sur-Mer, and of a new fossil crab 

 from New Zealand have been communicated to the Geological 

 Society of London by Mr. H. Woodward, who has also described 

 an extremely interesting fossil insect from tlie coal-measures of 

 Scotland in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. 187G (vol. xxxii., 

 p. 60, pi. ix.), belonging, as it would appear, to the family Mantidse, 

 under the name of Lothomantis carbonarius, and which agrees, 

 in tlie remarkable development of tlie prothoracic lobes, with the 

 African Blepharis domina, and which also seems to have a near 

 relationship with the singular fossil named Eugereon Boeckingii, 

 by Dr. Anton Dohrn. Mr. Woodward has added a list of all 



