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  new 
  species, 
  if 
  not 
  a 
  new 
  genus. 
  It 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  its 
  different 
  states 
  on 
  the 
  leaves 
  of 
  

   Acer 
  campestris. 
  

  

  CoccidjE. 
  — 
  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  Dujardin 
  on 
  the 
  establishment 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  order 
  for 
  the 
  

   reception 
  of 
  Coccus, 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Comptes 
  Rendus.' 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Landerer 
  on 
  Coccus 
  Ilicis, 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Pharma- 
  

   ceutical 
  Journal,' 
  (Vol. 
  xi. 
  No. 
  12, 
  June, 
  1852) 
  ; 
  of 
  this 
  useful 
  insect 
  it 
  is 
  stated 
  that 
  

   upwards 
  of 
  40,000 
  tbs. 
  weight 
  are 
  annually 
  collected 
  in 
  Greece. 
  

  

  M. 
  Guerin 
  Meneville 
  has 
  communicated 
  to 
  the 
  Academic 
  des 
  Sciences 
  (March 
  1, 
  

   1852), 
  a 
  notice 
  of 
  his 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Coccus 
  upon 
  the 
  common 
  bean 
  of 
  the 
  

   South 
  of 
  France 
  (C. 
  Fabae, 
  Guer.), 
  capable 
  of 
  affording 
  a 
  supply 
  of 
  colouring 
  matter, 
  

   (Rev. 
  Zool. 
  1852, 
  p. 
  143). 
  A 
  report 
  by 
  M. 
  Chevreuil 
  on 
  the 
  analysis 
  of 
  Coccus 
  Fa- 
  

   bce, 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  its 
  colouring 
  properties, 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  Academic 
  on 
  the 
  11th 
  

   of 
  May 
  last. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  MacGowan's 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  tallow-tree, 
  with 
  a 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  Pe-la, 
  an 
  insect- 
  

   wax 
  of 
  China, 
  drawn 
  up 
  for 
  the 
  Agricultural 
  and 
  Horticultural 
  Society 
  of 
  India, 
  has 
  

   been 
  published 
  in 
  Silliman's 
  ' 
  American 
  Journal 
  ' 
  for 
  July, 
  1851, 
  and 
  Ann. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  

   August, 
  1852. 
  It 
  is 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  compiled 
  from 
  the 
  accounts 
  given 
  in 
  Chinese 
  

   writers, 
  and 
  notices 
  the 
  curious 
  statement 
  that 
  the 
  insects 
  which 
  remain 
  on 
  the 
  trees 
  

   through 
  the 
  winter 
  secrete 
  a 
  purple 
  envelope, 
  which 
  attains 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  a 
  hen's 
  head 
  in 
  

   spring, 
  and 
  in 
  such 
  state 
  these 
  nests 
  are 
  transferred 
  from 
  tree 
  to 
  tree. 
  

  

  Lepidoptera. 
  

  

  M. 
  Leon 
  Dufour 
  has 
  addressed 
  to 
  the 
  Academic 
  des 
  Sciences 
  (May 
  17, 
  1852), 
  an 
  

   abstract 
  of 
  his 
  great 
  forthcoming 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  anatomy 
  of 
  Lepidopterous 
  insects. 
  

  

  A 
  series 
  of 
  observations 
  by 
  M. 
  Bruand, 
  opposing 
  the 
  classification 
  founded 
  chiefly 
  

   on 
  the 
  veining 
  of 
  the 
  wings 
  of 
  Lepidoptera, 
  adopted 
  by 
  Herrick-Schaeffer 
  and 
  M. 
  De 
  

   la 
  Harpe, 
  in 
  his 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Swiss 
  Phalaenae, 
  published 
  in 
  No. 
  22 
  of 
  the 
  'Bulletin 
  

   de 
  la 
  Societe 
  Vaudoise 
  des 
  Sciences 
  Naturelles,' 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  classification 
  of 
  

   the 
  Geometridae, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1852, 
  1st. 
  trim. 
  

  

  A 
  reissue 
  of 
  Wood's 
  ' 
  Index 
  Entomologicus,' 
  with 
  the 
  nomenclature 
  of 
  the 
  text 
  

   altered 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  the 
  British-Museum 
  Catalogue, 
  is 
  in 
  course 
  of 
  publication. 
  

  

  A 
  bibliographical 
  list 
  of 
  numerous 
  recent 
  works 
  upon 
  the 
  Lepidopterous 
  insects 
  of 
  

   various 
  parts 
  of 
  Germany, 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  Dr. 
  H. 
  Speyer, 
  in 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  Stettin 
  for 
  Oc- 
  

   tober, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Freyer's 
  Neue 
  Beitrage 
  z. 
  Schmetterl. 
  has 
  been 
  continued 
  by 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  

   Hefts 
  94—100. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  volume 
  of 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  in 
  M. 
  Chenu's 
  ' 
  Encyclopedie 
  d'Histoire 
  Na- 
  

   turelle 
  ' 
  has 
  appeared, 
  comprising 
  the 
  Diurna 
  and 
  Crepuscularia, 
  Latr., 
  with 
  numerous 
  

   figures. 
  

  

  M. 
  Bellierde 
  la 
  Chavignerie 
  has 
  published 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1851, 
  4th 
  trim.) 
  

   a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  observed 
  in 
  the 
  department 
  de 
  la 
  Lozere, 
  not 
  included 
  by 
  

   Duponchel 
  in 
  his 
  memoir 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Annales,' 
  1st 
  series, 
  tome 
  iii. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Boisduval 
  upon 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  of 
  California, 
  containing 
  83 
  

   species 
  of 
  Diurna, 
  2 
  of 
  Sphingidae, 
  and 
  10 
  Bombycidae, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  

   France, 
  1852, 
  2nd 
  trim. 
  

  

  