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language, as to make it not only intelligible and interesting, but 
even amusing. His views on nomenclature have caused some 
discussion, and they have an important bearing on a subject I 
shall refer to presently. The remaining papers are—‘“‘ On the 
forms of Zygena Trifolii,’ by Mr. Briggs, in which the question 
of species and variety is discussed; and one by Mr. McLachlan 
on the identification of three species of Myrmeleon described by 
Linneeus. 
The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, published 
during the past year, contain few Entomological papers. Part iii. 
of the volume for 1870 (which appeared in 1871) contains a list 
of acollection of North Indian butterflies by Mr. Butler, a note 
on abnormal neuration in an Acrea by the same author, and two 
papers on spiders by Mr. O. Pickard Cambridge. The two parts 
already published for 1871 contain another paper on spiders by 
the last-named gentleman, and four papers on butterflies by 
Mr. Butler, as well as one by Mr. W. 8. Atkinson on the same 
group. The Journal of the Linnean Society contains several 
Entomological papers :—on new forms of Ascalaphidz and on the 
classification of the Ascalaphide, by Mr. M‘Lachlan; Contri- 
butions to a Knowledge of Curculionide, pt. 1., by Mr. Pascoe; 
a Note on Mr. Murray’s Coleopterous Faun, by Mr. Trimen; 
a Catalogue of Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonide of India 
andj the Eastern Islands, by Mr. F’. Smith, with some introductory 
observations by myself; Observations on a Light-giving Coleop- 
terous Larva, by Dr. Hermann Burmeister; and Sir John 
Lubbock’s paper on the Origin of Insects. The ‘Annals and 
Magazine of Natural History’ contains no less than ten papers on 
insects in the last year’s volumes, of which the following isa 
list:—On Insects inhabiting Salt Water, by Dr. Packard; De- 
scriptions of new Butterflies, and of a new Paphia, by Mr. O. 
Salvin ; List of Coleoptera from Old Calabar, by Mr. A. Murray; 
New Species of Lepidoptera, by Mr. Butler; Life in the Wyan- 
dotte Cave, in which several cave-insects are described, by 
Professor Cope; Catalogue of Zygopine, Additions to Australian 
Curculionide, New Genera and Species of Longicorns, and Notes 
on Coleoptera, by Mr. Pascoe; Spiders of Montreal, Upper 
Canada, by Mr. John Blackwall; and Coleoptera of St. Helena, 
by Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston. The ‘ Zoologist’ contains Notes 
on Chalcidide, by Mr. Francis Walker. The ‘Entomologists’ 
