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  Hydrocobisa. 
  — 
  Dr. 
  Fieber 
  has 
  published 
  ' 
  Genera 
  Hydrocovidum 
  secundum 
  or- 
  

   dinem 
  naturalem,' 
  &:c., 
  with 
  4 
  plates, 
  (4 
  to., 
  Prague, 
  1851). 
  

  

  A 
  monograph 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Corisa, 
  containing 
  descriptions 
  of 
  51 
  species, 
  with 
  ai 
  

   supplement 
  of 
  20 
  unascertained 
  species, 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Fieber, 
  (4to.,. 
  

   Prague, 
  1851, 
  from 
  the 
  Trans. 
  Roy. 
  Bohemian 
  Soc.) 
  

  

  A 
  flight 
  of 
  a 
  cloud 
  of 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  species 
  of 
  Belostoma, 
  taken 
  on 
  board 
  a 
  ship/) 
  

   in 
  the 
  Persian 
  Gulf, 
  is 
  recorded 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A.White, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Lond. 
  March, 
  1 
  852).|. 
  

  

  HOMOPTERA. 
  

  

  The 
  fourth 
  part 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Walker's 
  ' 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Specimens 
  of 
  Homopterous- 
  

   Insects 
  in 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum,' 
  or, 
  more 
  correctly 
  speaking, 
  a 
  list 
  

   of 
  all 
  the 
  hitherto 
  described 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  order, 
  with 
  descriptions 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  species 
  

   in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  has 
  appeared, 
  containing 
  the 
  families 
  Psyllidse, 
  Aphidae, 
  and 
  

   Coccidas, 
  with 
  a 
  supplement 
  of 
  additional 
  species 
  of 
  Homoptera, 
  and 
  an 
  admirable 
  

   appendix 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Haliday 
  on 
  Thrips 
  and 
  its 
  divisions, 
  here 
  raised 
  to 
  the 
  rank 
  of 
  " 
  Or- 
  

   der 
  III. 
  Physapoda." 
  

  

  Thirteen 
  new 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  diflFerent 
  families 
  are 
  described 
  by 
  Dahlbora 
  in 
  

   the 
  Trans. 
  Roy. 
  Acad, 
  of 
  Sweden. 
  

  

  CicADiD^. 
  — 
  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Scott 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  the 
  Australian 
  insect, 
  Cyclo- 
  

   soma 
  Saundersii, 
  with 
  a 
  description 
  of 
  both 
  sexes 
  (the 
  male 
  only 
  having 
  been 
  previ- 
  

   ously 
  known), 
  was 
  read 
  at 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  on 
  the 
  10th 
  of 
  February, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Some 
  notes 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Ph. 
  Wild, 
  on 
  the 
  sudden 
  appearance 
  of 
  millions 
  of 
  specimens 
  

   of 
  Cicada 
  septendecim 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Baltimore, 
  on 
  the 
  ISlh 
  of 
  June, 
  1851, 
  

   appear 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1852, 
  xviii. 
  

  

  A 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Cicada, 
  hitherto 
  confounded 
  with 
  C. 
  septendecim, 
  has 
  been 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  by 
  I. 
  C. 
  Fisher, 
  in 
  the 
  Proc. 
  Acad. 
  Nat. 
  Sci. 
  Philad. 
  v. 
  No. 
  11. 
  

  

  A 
  monograph 
  on 
  the 
  genus 
  iEthalion, 
  comprising 
  14 
  species, 
  natives 
  of 
  Tropical 
  

   America, 
  by 
  M. 
  Signoret, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  4th 
  trim. 
  

  

  Both 
  sexes 
  of 
  the 
  remarkable 
  Uroptera 
  Hardwickii, 
  with 
  other 
  insects, 
  have 
  been 
  

   brought 
  from 
  the 
  Himalayas 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Hooker. 
  Mr. 
  While 
  has 
  recorded 
  that 
  the 
  re- 
  

   markable 
  elongated 
  appendage 
  at 
  the 
  extremity 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  exists 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  in 
  

   the 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  April, 
  1852. 
  

  

  M. 
  Guerin 
  Meneville 
  has 
  described 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  lassus 
  (I 
  vastator), 
  which 
  

   sometimes 
  attacks 
  the 
  young 
  plants 
  of 
  wheat 
  and 
  barley 
  to 
  such 
  an 
  extent 
  as 
  to 
  cause 
  

   the 
  crop 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  plant 
  materially 
  to 
  be 
  diminished, 
  whilst 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  was 
  

   in 
  one 
  case 
  " 
  nulle." 
  Acad, 
  des 
  Sciences, 
  Jan. 
  19, 
  1852 
  ; 
  Rev. 
  Zool. 
  1852, 
  p. 
  43. 
  

  

  ApHiDiE. 
  — 
  M. 
  Leon 
  Fairmaire 
  has 
  published 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  habits 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  

   of 
  Schizoneura, 
  found 
  near 
  Paris 
  at 
  the 
  roots 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  grass 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Sela- 
  

   ria. 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1851, 
  cvii.) 
  

  

  A 
  paper 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  Thornton, 
  on 
  the 
  pupa 
  of 
  an 
  insect 
  [allied 
  to 
  Cionops], 
  

   with 
  leaf-like 
  appendages, 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  proposed 
  to 
  be 
  named 
  Phillophorus 
  testu- 
  

   dinatus, 
  was 
  read 
  at 
  the 
  Microscopical 
  Society 
  on 
  the 
  28th 
  of 
  January, 
  1852, 
  in 
  which 
  

   the 
  writer 
  considers 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  pupa 
  of 
  an 
  uudescribed 
  species 
  of 
  Aphis, 
  forming 
  a 
  

  

  