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Fauna, similar to the lists which M. Deyrolle publishes from time 
to time in his ' Petites Nouvelles.' Surelj^ such an annual or 
half-j-early summary would not be out of place in our own 
Transactions, or in the pages of the 'Entomologist's Monthly 
Magazine.' For many years I regularly posted up our additions, 
in my copy of Stepliens' Catalogue, and can testify to the great 
benefit of such summaries. 
The vast number of short memoirs published upon restricted 
groups or species, in the Transactions of the various Entomolo- 
gical Societies and in the many Zoological or Entomological 
periodicals, renders it impossible for me to give, in an address 
like the present, more than a sketch of the most important ones 
which have appeared during the past j-ear. It is, however, to me 
a source of increasing regret that the number of entomologists, 
who devote their attention to the whole subject, is becoming 
gradually smaller, whilst specialists, whose general views of the 
subject must necessarily be limited, are so greatly on the increase. 
After an interval of delay we again welcome the appearance of a 
new part of the Transactions of the American Entomological 
Society (vol. iv. number 4, completing the volume), containing 
papers— by Mr. Aug. R. Grote, " On North American Noctuidte;" 
Dr. Home, " On the Bruchida; of the United States" (fifty-one 
species, more than half of which are new) ; Mr. W. H. Edwards, 
" On Six new Butterflies found within the United States ; " Mr. 
G. R. Crotch (who has accepted a situation in the Museum of 
Cambridge, U.S.), "A Synopsis of the Erotylida of Boreal 
America," "A Synopsis of the Endomychidre of the United 
States," " A Revision of the Coccinellidffi of the United States," 
and "A Revision of the Dytiscid£e of the United States;"* and 
Mr. Grote, "A Description of a New Species of Tortrix," and 
"A Revision of the Lepidopterous Articles, published by himself 
and the lamented Mr. Coleman T. Robinson in former volumes 
of the Transactions." 
I have the pleasure on the present occasion to ofi'er to the 
Society the first part of my ' Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis' 
^ • Mr. Crotch noUces the interesting fact that Dytiscus lapponicus, the most 
Northern European species, does not "pass over" to North America, as well as tho 
prevalence of smooth females in the same genus; "in England, of six species, only 
one has a smooth female, and in America only three species have sulcata females, 
and those have also smooth forms." 
