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* A Natural History of all the British Butterflies,' by Edward 

 Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. (being the Butterfly Number of 'Young 

 England'). This contains very careful descriptions, in untechnical 

 terms, of the British butterflies, with a figure of each species beauti- 

 fully drawn on wood ; and the price being only sixpence, the sale 

 has been very great. The work is so well known and appreciated 

 that to say anything in its praise is superfluous. 



* A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of Na- 

 tural History at the East India House,' by Thomas Horsfield, 

 M. & Ph.D., F.K.S., and Frederick Moore, Vol. ii. 



* The Honey-Bee : its Natural History, Habits, Anatomy and Mi- 

 croscopical Beauties,' by James Samuelson. 



* The Natural History of the Tineina,' by H. T. Stainton, assisted 

 by Professor ZeUer, J. W. Douglas and Professor Frey, Vol. v., con- 

 taining Coleophora, Part 2, witheight coloured j)lates. 



* The Journal of Entomology, Descriptive and Geographical.' Of 

 this new publication two parts have appeared, containing the fol- 

 lowing articles and eight plates : — 



" On the Halticidse of the Canary Islands," by T. V. WoUaston, 

 Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



" Remarks on the PoUinosity of the Genera Lixus and Larinus," 

 by M. Henri Jekel, Member of the Entomological Soc. of France, etc. 



" Characters of Undescribed Species of the Genus Leucopsis," by 

 F. Walker, Esq., F.L.S. 



" Description of new Genera and Species of Eumolpidse," by J. S. 

 Baly, Esq. 



" Notices of new or little-known Genera and Species of Co- 

 leoptera," by Francis P. Pascoe, Esq., F.L.S. 



" Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Exotic Hyme- 

 noptera," by Frederick Smith, Esq. 



" On the Coleoptera of the Salvages," by T. Vernon WoUaston, 

 Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



" Descriptions of Six new Species of Chrysomela from the East," 

 by J. S. Baly, Esq. 



The names of the authors are a sufficient guarantee of the excel- 

 lence of these papers ; I can only regret that the writers have thought 

 proper to contribute them to a new work in no respect differing from 



