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figs. 1—5). In vol. V. (1868) Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, of Boston, 

 U. S., gave a full account of eighty-seven species of insects, six of 

 which are from the Devonian, fifteen from the carboniferous, one 

 from the Trias, and sixty-five from the tertiaries. Ten of these 

 are Coleoptera, four Orthoptera, nine Neuroptera, five either 

 Orthoptera or Neuroptera, three Hymenoptera, forty-five are 

 Diptera, six Hemiptera, whilst three are Lepidoptera, one doubtful 

 carboniferous form and two from the tertiaries, and two are 

 M3'riapoda from the carboniferous. 



In 1871 an Arachnide, under the generic name of Eophr3mus, 

 was redescribed by H. Woodward, Esq., from a new and very 

 perfect specimen, it having been originally described and figured 

 by Dr. Buckland, on the authority of the late G. Samouelle, as a 

 weevil, with the name Curculioides Prestvicii. This paper is 

 accompanied by a list of forty-four insects from the coal-measures, 

 seven from the Devonian and one Permian example. 



The group of Adelarthrosomata is one of the greatest interest 

 amongst the Arachnida, not only from the great diversity of 

 structure and general disagreement in form from the ordinary 

 types of the class, but also from the great gaps occurring between 

 the different component groups. It is therefore worthy of notice 

 that Mr. Woodward has described a new form in the group in the 

 ' Geological Magazine' for September, 1872, under the name of 

 Architarbus, founded upon a specimen found in the iron-stone 

 measures of Lancashire, with which also a North American 

 species, figm'ed by Mr. Scudder, appears to be congeneric. Mr. 

 Woodward contrasts the genus with Phrynus and Phalangium. 

 It, however, in my opinion, is much more closely allied to 

 Trogulus. 



A new fossil butterfly has been described by Mr. Scudder, from 

 Aix, in Provence, under the name of Satyrites Eeynesii, in the 

 ' Eevue et Mag. de Zool.,' 1872, pi. 7, republished in the ' Geological 

 Magazine'; and lastly, in the present month's (January) number 

 of the latter work, is a short paper by Mr. Butler, containing 

 figures and descriptions of Mr. Charlesworth's fine wing of a 

 butterfly from Stonesfield, under the name of Palseontina oolitica, 

 allied to the tropical American genera Caligo, Dasyophthalma 

 and Brassolis, together with copies of the Cyllo sepulta, Bois- 

 duval, Ann. Ent. Soc. France, 1840 (Vanessa sepulta, Lefebvre, 

 Anuales, 1851), from the cretaceous white-sandstone of Aix-la- 



