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West Tmlia Islands. The Atlas contains 20 plates of admirably 

 executed figures, with dissections, and are everything that could be 

 wished for illustrating the letter-press. 



' Fauna Austriaca, die Kafer.' Descriptions of the Beetles of 

 Austria, according to the analytical method. By Ludwig Redtenbacher. 

 In German : 764 pp. to the Curculionidae, genus Authonomus ; 

 6 parts. 



' Neuroptera Austriaca.' Vienna: 1857. An 8v-o pamphlet, of 80 

 pag^s ; by F. Brauer and Franz Low ; gives descriptions of the Neu- 

 ropterous Insects of Austria, in German. There are 5 outline plates 

 of details of genera and species attached to the work. 



' Insecta Caffrariae,' Part II., by C. H. Boheman, is a continuation 

 of an excellent work on the Insects of South Africa. It contains the 

 Lamellicorn beetles. 



* Monographic des Cicindelides,' by M. James Thomson (Paris, 4to), 

 is a work of much promise : one number is published. The work is 

 got up with much care, and the plates are beautifully engraved and 

 coloured, the figures giving excellent representations of the insects. 

 The high price of the work will, I am afraid, place it out of the reach 

 of a number of our working entomologists. 



' Archives Entomologiques,' by M. J. Thomson (Paris, 8vo), is a 

 work intended to illustrate new and rare insects, and has already 

 reached five parts. The Longicornes are the insects chiefly described 

 and figured as yet. The plates are carefully drawn and well coloin'ed, 

 and the work appears likely to be of much use to entomologists. 



The ' Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' fourth series, vols. v. and vi., 

 contain an excellent paper on the Ants of France and Algiers, by 

 Dr. Wm. Nylander ; a paper by M. Schiodte, on the Staphylins 

 vivipares which are found accompanying the Termites ; a paper by 

 Ch. Lespes, on the Organization and Habits of the Termites lucifuga; 

 a paper by M. Fabre, on the Instinct and Metamorphoses of the 

 Sphegida3 ; a reproduction of M. C. Th. E. De Siebold's researches 

 on the Parthenogenesis of the Lepidoptera and Bees. 



Erichson's ' Nalurgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands' has four 

 additional parts published during the year, in which will be found a 

 continuation of the Carabidx, by H. Schaum ; the Buprestida?, by H. 

 V. Kiesenwetter j and the conclusion of the Staphylini, by Dr. G. 

 Kraatz, 



Entomology, viewed in the light of an interesting, useful and de- 

 lightful branch of Natural History, is no 4""^' advancing in the 



