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(Pluto olim) ; and in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine * for 

 December, 1876, Mr. Butler has given the scanty list of the 

 New Zealand butterflies (fourteen in number*), including a 

 new species, — Chrysophanus Enysii, — allied to C. Salustus. 

 Memoirs containing descriptions of new species of New Zealand 

 Coleoptera have been published in the ' Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine ' for the past year (vol. xii.), by Messrs. H. W. Bates 

 and D. Sharp ; and by Mr. Pascoe in the ' Annals of Natural 

 History ' during the past year. Various new species of Hyme- 

 noptera from New Zealand have also been described by Mr. F. 

 Smith in the ' Transactions ' of our Society. 



In India excellent work is being done at the Museum of 

 Calcutta by our friend Mr. Wood -Mason, who appears to have 

 devoted much of his attention to the Orthoptera and larger 

 Crustacea. His various memoirs on these subjects have been 

 reprinted in the ' Annals of Natural History.' 



We must congratulate our brother workers in North America 

 on the many admirable works which they have recently pub- 

 lished, of most of which notices will be found below. The names 

 of John Leconte, Home, Packard, Scudder, Edwards, Strecker, 

 Grote, and various other entomologists, including Dr. Hagen 

 and Baron Osten-Sacken, may be well placed side by side with 

 the most celebrated European entomologists. 



Ceustacea. 

 The memoirs of Claus and Spence Bate, on the zoea or larva 

 state of various genera of Decapod and Stomapod Crustacea, have 

 been referred to above. A memoir on various new species of 

 Oxystomatous Crustacea, by Edward J. Miers, F.L.S., of the 

 British Museum, has been communicated to the Linnean Society. 

 The ' Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences,' vol. iii., part I., 1876, contains a Report on the 

 dredgings in the region of St. George's Banks, in which a number 

 of Crustacea were taken, but only one new species is described — 

 Stenothoe peltata. Smith, pi. IV., figs. 5 to 8. A memoir on the 

 curious crustaceous genus ^Eglea, with the description of a 

 new species by Fritz Midler, appears in the Jena Zeitschr. f. 



* Mr. Wallace devotes several pages in his work on the geographical distribution 

 of animals (i. p. 462), endeavouring to account for this rarity of insects in New 

 Zealand. 



