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InSECTA. — COLEOPTERA. 



A revision of the North- American Coleoptera formerl}'- described 

 b_y Mr. Eandall has been published by Messrs. Sprague and 

 Austin (Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. xvii. 387). 



Descriptions of various new species of exotic Coleoptera, by 

 Charles O. Waterhouse (including an account of those collected 

 in the Island of Piodriguez by the naturalists accompanying the 

 Transit of Yenus Expedition), appear in the ' Transactions ' of 

 the Society and the ' Annals of Natural History.' 



Baron Chaudoir has continued his labours on the Carabidse, 

 having published memoirs on the Cymindides and Siagonides in 

 the recently received parts of the Moscow Bulletin. 



Various new species of Japanese Geodephagous Coleoptera are 

 described by Mr. H. W. Bates in our ' Transactions.' 



An elaborate memoir on the Staphylinida of the Amazon 

 Valle}', as well as others from Mexico and Central America, by 

 D. Sharp, M.B., has been published in the ' Transactions ' of our 

 Society. 



The 'Journal des Museum Godeffroy ' (Heft xii. p. 48) contains 

 a memoir by Herr C. A. Dohrn on the Australian species of 

 Paussidse belonging to the difficult genus Arthropterus, of which 

 a considerable number of new species have been lately described 

 b}^ Mr. McLea}^ jun. 



Two new African species of Paussidse have also been described 

 by Herr Pitsema, Paussus Woerdeni and Pleuropterus Dohrnii. 



The Baron von Harold has published the descriptions of some 

 new species of Coprides, including a new genus, Pinacotarsus, 

 from Monrovia, in the Entom. Zeit. of Stettin, xxxvi. p. 452. 



The Curculionidae collected in the Islands of Cuba by Dr. 

 Gundlach have been described by Dr. E. Suffrain in Troschel's 

 Arcliiv. f. Naturg. (forty-second year, 2nd Heft), 



A memoir by M. Ed. Lefevre, containing a large number of 

 new genera and species of Eumolpides, chiefly from South 

 America, appears in the Revue et Mag. de Zoologie, for 1876 

 (p. 278 to 311). 



Mr. Baly has continued his apparently interminable task of 

 describing the exotic species of Phytophaga in the pages of the 

 ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' and in the ' Transactions ' 

 of our Society. 



