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The fourth, — " Notes on Australasian and North American 

 Trichopterj'-gia, with descriptions of four new Species ; " by the 

 Rev. A. Matthews. " Descriptions of some Japanese Hyme- 

 noptera;" by the late Francis Walker. "Descriptions of Amur- 

 land Chalcidise;" by the same author. "Descriptions of two 

 new Species of Scorpions" (from Uruguay) ; by Mr. A. G. Butler. 

 "Notice of Dr. Ma^-^r's Essay, 'Die Europaischen Torymiden;"* 

 by the late Francis Walker. " Descriptions of two new Species of 

 Coleoptera, pertaining to the families CetoniidfB and Buprestid® ; " 

 by Mr. Oliver E. Janson. 



Numerous descriptions of insects of various orders are also to 

 be met with in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' to some 

 of which I shall hereafter advert. 



In occasionally referring to foreign publications, " whose name 

 is legion," I have not considered it requisite to enter further into 

 these, as it would seem to me more desirable to treat of what has 

 been done by British entomologists than to trespass upon your 

 time with other details. 



The Eev. Thomas R. R. Stebbing has given figures and 

 descriptions of some " Amphipodous Crustacea;" of a new 

 species of Arcturus (A. damnoniensis) ; and of some species of 

 Amphithoe and Sunamphithoe ; — all from the south coast of 

 England ; — in the ' Annals of Natural History.' 



Professor Wrzesniowski, of the Warsaw University, has also 

 described in these 'Annals' (July, 1874) a new species of the 

 Amphipodous genus Callisoma of Costa, from Nice (C. Branickii). 



Mr. Wood-Mason has communica,ted to the same publication 

 (September, 1874) the description, given by him in the 'Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' of a new genus and species of 

 land-crabs (Hylseocarcinus Humei), from the Nicobar Islands. 



Mr. A. G. Butler has figured and described, in the same part 

 of these 'Annals,' four new species of Myriapod Glomeridse 

 from Sikkim, lately added to the collection of the British 

 Museum. 



A " Systematic List of the Spiders at present known to inhabit 

 Great Britain and Ireland," by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, has 

 appeared in the Transactions of the Linnean Society (vol. xxx., 

 part 2), in the preamble to which the writer calls attention to the 

 circumstance that, in Dr. Thorell's work, lately completed, ' On 

 the Synonyms of European Spiders,' priority is given to names of 



