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South-American butterflies. Mr. Bates' long residence on the banks 

 of the Amazons has afTorded him unusual opportunities of studying, 

 year after year, the habits of the same species, and such contributions 

 to entomological literature possess a value for all time. 



Mr. Pascoe has contribuled another paper "On New Genera and 

 Species of Longicorn Coleoptera," embracing many of the novel 

 forms discovered by Mr. Wallace in the Aru Islands. 



Mr. Mooie has furnished us with a Monograph of the Genus 

 Adolias, in which fifty-two species are described : this memoir is 

 illustrated with seven plates, in which thirty out of the fifty-two 

 are figured. 



Mr. Waterhouse has contributed four papers on the Coleoptera of 

 this country ; the first on the species of ElnleridcB in the Stephensian 

 Cabinet, the second being a revision of the British species of the genus 

 Coriicaria, in which all the species are very carefully described, and 

 their distinctive characters pointed out, — such monographs of genera 

 are highly useful ; the other two papers treat on Heterocerus and 

 Lathridius. 



Mr. Saunders has contributed some descriptions of new species oi 

 the, genus Erijcina^ which forms a Supplement to a paper by the 

 same author on the subject ten years ago, which appeared in the fifth 

 volume of our first series of * Transactions.' The present paper is 

 illustrated by two plates. 



Mr. Smith has enriched our pages with " A Contribution to the 

 History of Stylops," enumerating the species which are subject to the 

 attacks of these parasites, and the various parts of the globe in which 

 Stylopized insects have been met with. 



Mr. Westwood has furnished us with a description of a new genus 

 of Carabida, which Mr. Bates had met with on the banks of the 

 Amazon. 



Mr. Walker's paper is only commenced in the last part of our 

 'Transactions;' it treats of uudescribed Neuroplera in the rich col- 

 lection of Mr. Saunders. 



I do not propose on the present occasion to allude to other 

 entomological papers which have appeared elsewhere during the past 

 year. 1 undertook at such short notice to prepare an address for this 

 evening that lime has not permitted me to obtain as accurate a list of 

 the entomological works published in 1859 as I could have wished, 

 and rather than render au imperfect account 1 would prefer to render 

 none at all. Suffice it to say that the British Museum has not been 



