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  of 
  the 
  roots 
  of 
  Antinhinura 
  Linaria, 
  causing 
  an 
  excrescence; 
  and 
  ihat 
  the 
  pith 
  of 
  

   Alcaea 
  rosea 
  is 
  burrowed 
  into 
  by 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Apion. 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr., 
  1851, 
  cii). 
  

  

  ScoLYTiD^. 
  — 
  A 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  ravages 
  of 
  Scolyti 
  upon 
  young 
  fir-trees 
  has 
  been 
  com- 
  

   municated 
  by 
  M. 
  Amyot 
  to 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  France, 
  (Annales, 
  1851, 
  

   cxix.) 
  It 
  is 
  afhrmed 
  that 
  the 
  chief 
  injury 
  is 
  committed 
  by 
  the 
  larvse 
  eating 
  round 
  the 
  

   stem, 
  and 
  thus 
  preventing 
  the 
  rising 
  of 
  the 
  sap. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  Chevandier 
  on 
  the 
  invasion 
  of 
  a 
  young 
  plantation 
  of 
  pines 
  by 
  Hy- 
  

   lesinus 
  piniperda, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  supposed 
  double-broodedness 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  was 
  read 
  at 
  

   the 
  Academic 
  des 
  Sciences 
  on 
  the 
  5th 
  of 
  January, 
  1852. 
  This 
  memoir, 
  and 
  the 
  effect 
  

   of 
  this 
  double-broodedness 
  of 
  Hylesinus 
  piniperda 
  upon 
  the 
  manufacture 
  of 
  charcoal, 
  

   as 
  well 
  as 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  remedies 
  to 
  be 
  adopted 
  for 
  the 
  destruction 
  of 
  ihe 
  insects, 
  

   has 
  led 
  to 
  several 
  discussions 
  between 
  Messrs. 
  Guerin 
  and 
  Chevandier, 
  the 
  former 
  of 
  

   whom 
  has 
  published 
  a 
  reply 
  of 
  sixteen 
  pages, 
  followed 
  by 
  the 
  rejoinder 
  of 
  M. 
  Chevan- 
  

   dier, 
  in 
  which 
  many 
  interesting 
  facts 
  are 
  developed, 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Memoires 
  de 
  la 
  Societe 
  

   d'Agriculture,' 
  for 
  1852. 
  

  

  LoNGicoRNiA. 
  — 
  A 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Longicorn 
  beetles 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  

   Bauksian 
  cabinet 
  preserved 
  at 
  the 
  Linnean 
  Society, 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  by 
  M. 
  Che- 
  

   vrolat, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1851, 
  4th 
  livr.) 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Leconte's 
  " 
  Attempt 
  to 
  classify 
  the 
  Longicorn 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  those 
  parts 
  of 
  

   America 
  north 
  of 
  Mexico," 
  containing 
  descriptions 
  of 
  great 
  numbers 
  of 
  new 
  genera 
  

   and 
  species, 
  has 
  been 
  completed 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Jourual 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Philad.' 
  

   n. 
  s. 
  ii. 
  pt. 
  2. 
  The 
  third 
  part, 
  containing 
  the 
  Lamiadae, 
  is 
  divided 
  into 
  17 
  groups 
  and 
  

   90 
  genera. 
  

  

  A 
  number 
  of 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Longicorn 
  beetles, 
  including 
  12 
  from 
  Shanghai, 
  are 
  

   described 
  by 
  M. 
  Chevrolat 
  in 
  Guerin's 
  Rev. 
  Zool. 
  September, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  L. 
  Buqiiet 
  on 
  the 
  genus 
  Eudesmus, 
  cousisting 
  of 
  5 
  species 
  from 
  

   South 
  America, 
  appears 
  in 
  Guerin's 
  Rev. 
  Zool. 
  1852, 
  p. 
  343. 
  

  

  An 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  groogroo 
  worm 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  Indies, 
  considered 
  as 
  

   the 
  larva 
  of 
  a 
  Prionus, 
  and 
  used 
  as 
  an 
  article 
  of 
  food, 
  is 
  published 
  in 
  our 
  ' 
  Proceed- 
  

   ings,' 
  for 
  October, 
  1852. 
  

  

  The 
  destruction 
  of 
  oak 
  timber 
  in 
  Pembroke 
  dock-yard, 
  by 
  the 
  burrowing 
  of 
  the 
  lar- 
  

   vsB 
  of 
  Hamaticherus 
  Heros, 
  observed 
  by 
  Sir 
  T. 
  Pasley, 
  has 
  been 
  recorded 
  by 
  myself, 
  

   with 
  the 
  addition 
  of 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  of 
  Longi- 
  

   corn 
  larvag 
  in 
  general, 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  the 
  spiracles, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  

   Nov. 
  1851). 
  

  

  A 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  large 
  numbers 
  of 
  Obriura 
  minutum 
  from 
  willow- 
  

   sticks 
  formed 
  into 
  baskets, 
  and 
  also 
  from 
  bramble-sticks, 
  appears 
  in 
  our 
  'Proceedings,' 
  

   January, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Phacellus 
  is 
  described 
  by 
  M. 
  Buquet 
  in 
  the 
  Rev. 
  ZooL 
  

   1851, 
  p. 
  603. 
  

  

  M. 
  Lucas 
  has 
  described 
  a 
  new 
  Longicorn 
  genus 
  from 
  Algeria 
  (Sympiezocera 
  Lau- 
  

   rasii),in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1852, 
  cvii. 
  

  

  Phytophaga. 
  — 
  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Lecoute, 
  containing 
  a 
  synopsis 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  

   Donacia 
  inhabiting 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  with 
  6 
  new 
  species, 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  Proc. 
  

   Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Philad. 
  v. 
  310. 
  

  

  