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  A 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Australian 
  species 
  of 
  Bolboceras 
  by 
  myself,* 
  with 
  a 
  supplement 
  

   containing 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  a 
  considerable 
  number 
  of 
  species, 
  chiefly 
  Indian, 
  belong- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  genus, 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Transactions 
  of 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Soci- 
  

   ety,' 
  xxi. 
  pt. 
  1. 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  Trox 
  sabulosus 
  by 
  Mr. 
  F. 
  Bates, 
  states 
  that 
  he 
  obtained 
  

   many 
  specimens 
  beneath 
  dead 
  rabbit-;^kins, 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  bury 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  skin 
  in 
  

   the 
  same 
  way 
  as 
  the 
  burying-beetles, 
  (Zool. 
  February, 
  1852). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  W. 
  Saunders 
  has 
  published 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  Chinese 
  species 
  of 
  

   Cetoniadae, 
  including 
  anew 
  genus 
  allied 
  to 
  Dicranocephalus 
  (preceded 
  by 
  some 
  gene- 
  

   ral 
  observations 
  on 
  the 
  Entomology 
  of 
  China), 
  Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Lend. 
  n. 
  s. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  26. 
  

  

  A 
  paper 
  on 
  Cetonia 
  graeca, 
  Bndle, 
  as 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  genus 
  (Heterocnemis), 
  by 
  

   Herr 
  Albers, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Stettin 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  for 
  February, 
  1852. 
  

  

  LucANiD-E. 
  — 
  Two 
  fine 
  species 
  of 
  Lucanidae 
  have 
  been 
  described 
  by 
  M. 
  Reiche, 
  

   (Guer. 
  Rev. 
  Zool. 
  1852, 
  p. 
  23). 
  

  

  BLAPSID.E. 
  — 
  M. 
  de 
  Beauregard 
  has 
  communicated 
  to 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  

   of 
  France, 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  in 
  Spain 
  an 
  infusion 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Akis 
  is 
  given 
  

   in 
  cases 
  of 
  pulmonary 
  phthisis. 
  The 
  peasants 
  near 
  Grenada 
  seeing 
  him 
  employed 
  in 
  

   collecting 
  these 
  insects, 
  regarded 
  him 
  as 
  an 
  apothecary, 
  and 
  taught 
  him 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  

   insects 
  mentioned 
  above. 
  (Annales, 
  1852, 
  v.) 
  

  

  ANTHiciDiE. 
  — 
  A 
  note 
  of 
  the 
  Marquis 
  de 
  la 
  Ferte 
  Senectere's 
  monograph 
  on 
  the 
  

   Authicidae, 
  by 
  M. 
  Reiche, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1852, 
  2nd 
  trim. 
  

  

  CuRCULioNiD^. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  Walton 
  has 
  continued 
  his 
  memoirs 
  on 
  this 
  family, 
  by 
  the 
  

   description 
  of 
  Trachodes 
  hispidus 
  (from 
  the 
  New 
  Forest 
  and 
  Cumberland), 
  and 
  Aca- 
  

   lyplus 
  Carpini 
  (from 
  Fenny 
  Stratford), 
  both 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  Fauna, 
  (Ann. 
  Nat. 
  

   Hist. 
  March, 
  1852). 
  

  

  M. 
  Laboulbene 
  has 
  discovered 
  galls 
  at 
  the 
  crown 
  of 
  the 
  root 
  of 
  Draba 
  verna, 
  inha- 
  

   bited 
  by 
  the 
  larvae 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Curculionidfe 
  and 
  its 
  parasite. 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr.) 
  

  

  Memoirs 
  by 
  M. 
  Ferris 
  on 
  the 
  transformations 
  of 
  the 
  genera 
  Cionus, 
  Phytonomus, 
  

   and 
  Phytobius, 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  ' 
  of 
  the 
  Linn. 
  Soc. 
  Lyons. 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  injury 
  committed 
  by 
  Otiorhynchus 
  raucus 
  by 
  gnawing 
  the 
  leaves 
  of 
  

   the 
  pear, 
  has 
  been 
  communicated 
  to 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  France 
  by 
  M. 
  Rou- 
  

   get. 
  Hitherto 
  the 
  attacks 
  of 
  weevils 
  in 
  France 
  had 
  only 
  been 
  observed 
  in 
  the 
  gnawing 
  

   off 
  of 
  the 
  young 
  buds 
  by 
  species 
  of 
  Rhynchites 
  and 
  Phyllobius, 
  (Annales, 
  1852, 
  xxxv.) 
  

  

  The 
  crop 
  of 
  strawberries 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Paris 
  in 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1851, 
  was 
  

   greatly 
  injured 
  by 
  the 
  attacks 
  of 
  Anthonomus 
  Rubi, 
  Herbst, 
  which 
  eat 
  through 
  the 
  

   stalks 
  of 
  the 
  fruit-buds. 
  Tlie 
  insect 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  the 
  gardeners 
  by 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Lisette 
  ; 
  

   in 
  some 
  situations, 
  " 
  champs 
  entiers 
  n'ont 
  rien 
  produit," 
  (Lucas, 
  in 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  

   France, 
  1851, 
  cxv.) 
  

  

  M. 
  Guerin 
  Meneville 
  has 
  observed 
  that 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Gymnaetron 
  pierces 
  the 
  stems 
  

  

  * 
  I 
  have 
  to 
  thank 
  M. 
  Reiche 
  for 
  the 
  following 
  note 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Bolboceras 
  Lecontei, 
  Dej., 
  = 
  B. 
  furcicollis, 
  Castclnau, 
  and 
  = 
  9 
  ferrugineus, 
  Pal. 
  

   Beauv., 
  and 
  is 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  