mologist's Monthly Magazine,' in wliicli work also Dr. F. Buchanan 
"White has published a revision of the species of the very difficult 
genus Corixa, and has described a curious structure in the male 
insects, hitherto entirely overlooked, but which he thinks forms 
portion of the genital armature, situated on the posterior margin 
of the upper side of the sixth segment of the abdomen, and con- 
sisting of a chitinous plate attached to a short pedicle, and 
provided with from three to sixteen rows of closely- set teeth 
resembling the teeth of a comb : to this organ he has applied the 
name of "strigil:" it differs in almost every species, and will 
doubtless prove of great value in determining the species. 
The admirable works of Mr. Hewitson on Exotic Butterflies 
and on the beautiful group of Lycsenidse still continue to appear 
with due regularity; as do also those of Mr. Butler, and Mr. 
Edwards on the Butterflies of Noi-th America. 
Mr. Ward has also published the first part of a woi'k entitled 
* African Lepidoptera, being Descriptions of New Species.' 4to. 
Longmans, 1873, with six excellent plates of butterflies. 
Mr. Hermann Strecker has also issued seven parts of a new 
work entitled ' Lepidoptera, Bhopalocera and Heterocera, Indi- 
genous and Exotic,' with very full coloured j^lates, containing 
figures of (p. 1) Saturnia Gloveri, (pp. 2, 4 and 6) species of 
Papilio and Pieris, &c., (pp. 3 and 5) many species of Catocala, 
(p. 7) species of Smerinthus (fifteen figures). 
Mr. Herbert Druce has given us a list of the Butterflies of 
Borneo, with descriptions of various new species, in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Zoological Society; in which work a remarkable 
new genus of PapilionidfB (allied to the genus Sericinus, first 
described by me in the Transactions of our Society), from the 
South-Eastern Himalayas, has been described and figured by 
Mr. Atkinson under the name of Bhutanitis Lidderdali. 
Various new species of Morpho have been figured by M. Dey- 
rolle, in the ' Magasin de Zoologie,' in which Dr. Burmeister has 
also contributed excellent descriptions and figures of the larvae 
and pupse of several species of the same genus. 
We have still to regret the non-accomplishment of the reason- 
able hopes which we had entertained that our Government would 
have thought fit — whilst providing several of the older and more 
wealthy Scientific Societies with fitting places for holding their 
meetings, as well as their libraries and collections — to extend a 
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