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Hitherto the collections of insects and books have been kept in 

 four spare rooms iu the Taylor Institution, waiting the completion 

 of the rooms assigned to them in the New Museum. These are now 

 being fitted with proper tables, cases, cabinets, book-shelves, &c., 

 and it is expected that the collection will be removed in the course 

 of the following summer. The collection is open daily both to 

 members of the University and the public, and is tending, in con- 

 junction with the Entomological Society of Oxford, to awaken and 

 diffuse a love for the Science, especially among the junior members 

 of the University. This Society meets on the first Tuesday in every 

 month during the four academic terms, and the meetings are generally 

 rendered interesting by the distribution of duplicates, exhibition of 

 captures, and notes and observations by the members. Excursions 

 ai'e also made during the spring and summer terms. 



British Entomological Works published in 1860. 



Our ' Transactions,' published during the past year, contain the 

 following papers : — 



" Characters of Undescribed Neuroptera in the Collection of 

 W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.E.S., &c.," by Francis Walker, Esq. 



" Notes on the British Species of Cissidse," by G. K. Water- 

 house, Esq. 



" Notes on the Economy of the Ichneumons constituting the 

 Genus Pezomachus of Gravenhorst, and Observations on Pezoma- 

 chus fasciatus," by Frederick Smith, Esq. ; with a Description of a 

 New Species of Hemiteles, by Thomas Desvignes, Esq. 



" Notes on the British Species of Donacia," by G. R. Water- 

 house, Esq. 



" Note on the Habits of Scolytidse and Bostrichidae," by Alfred 

 R. Wallace, Esq. 



" Descriptions of South-African Tineina collected by R. Trimen, 

 Esq., in 1858—9," by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



" Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon VaUey," by 

 H. W. Bates, Esq. 



" Notes on the Geographical Distribution of the British Butter- 

 flies," by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



" Descriptions of some new Species of Sagra ; Remarks on that 

 Genus ; and the Characters of Cheiloxena, a new Qenus belonging 

 to the same Family," by J. S. Baly, Esq. 



