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Entomologist of New York," and of Mr. B. D. Walsh unci Mr. C. Y. 

 Riley as occupying similar official posts in the States of Illinois and 

 Missouri. A Journal devoted more particularly to economic Ento- 

 mology, and entitled ' The American Entomologist,' is published in 

 St. Louis, Missouri, and is most ably conducted. The accounts of 

 the habits of insects, injurious or helpful to the farmer and gardener, 

 are illustrated by well-executed wood-cuts, and the Editors announce 

 their intention of including, in their future numbers, articles on 

 general Entomology, and descriptions of new genera and species of 

 American insects. In California there are now resident Entomolo- 

 gists, who publish their new discoveries in the 'Proceedings of the 

 Californian Academy of Natural Sciences.' There is also an Ento- 

 mological Society, which publishes its Journal, in Canada. 



In several of the British colonies, in other parts of the world, there 

 is also much greater attention paid to the study of insects than 

 formerly. One of the most useful books on Diurnal Lepidoptera that 

 has appeared within the last few years, the ' Rhopalocera Africa) 

 Australis,' was published at the Cape of Good Hope. But it is in 

 Australia that the most marked stiudes in this direction have been 

 made. The recently-established Entomological Society of New South 

 Wales numbers several men of talent and active workers amongst its 

 members, and has published five parts of its ' Transactions,' con- 

 taining papers which all general Entomologists are obliged to consult. 

 In Melbourne, memoirs of great interest on the native Insect Fauna 

 have been published in the ' Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Victoria ;' I allude more particularly to the descriptions of Cicinde- 

 lidsB and Carabidae of Austi'alia by M. de Castelnau, by which the 

 treasures of the collection of Dr. Howitt, as well as those of the 

 author, are for the first time made known. The impression that a 

 glance at these memoirs produces is, that we have had hitherto but a 

 faint idea of the extent of the Coleopterous Fauna of Australia and 

 New Zealand, so vast is the number of new genera and species 

 acquired in a comparatively short time by the two gentlemen above- 

 named. Speculations as to the geographical relations and nature of 

 this Fauna are vain, whilst the discovery of new forms, and of genera 

 not expected to occur in Australia, proceeds at so rapid a rate. 



Returning, in our brief survey, to Europe, it is my duty to call 

 attention to a few of the more important works on Entomology which 

 have appeared during the year. 1 will first mention those which 



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