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the African border of the Mediterranean, all Northern and 

 Central Asia, Asia Minor, the North of China, Japan, &c. ; the 

 latter S3'non3'mous with the greater part of North America ; 

 while, however, excluding from his own range China and Japan, 

 but including Iceland, as generally considered more European 

 than American. 



A singular insect from New Zealand, belonging to the family 

 Ephemeridffi, has been figured and described by Mr. Eobert 

 M'Lachlan, in its several conditions of male, female, female 

 sub-imago, nymph and larva, in the ' Linnean Society's Journal' 

 (No. 58), under the name of Oniscigaster Wakefieldi, whereof the 

 female alone had been previously recorded by him in the 'Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine,' for October, 1873. 



We are indebted to Mr. H. W. Bates for a series of papers 

 containing descriptions of new Cicindelidfe and Carabidse, which 

 have appeared in the last-mentioned Magazine ; also for two 

 memoirs on the Geodephagous and Longicorn Coleoptera of 

 New Zealand, in the 'Annals of Natural History;' and to 

 Mr. Frederick Bates, for descriptions of new genera and species 

 of Heteromera, chiefly from New Zealand and New Caledonia, in 

 the same 'Annals.' 



We have to thank Mr. Pascoe for a continuation of his "Addi- 

 tions to the Australian Curculionidse " (Parts VI. and YII.), 

 published in the aforesaid ' Annals ; ' and for a very extensive 

 fourth part of his " Contributions towards a Knowledge of the 

 Curculionidje," occupying the whole of the Linnean Society's 

 'Journal,' No. 57, accompanied bj'^ four plates, and a copious 

 S3"stematic list of all the genera and species described in the 

 several parts of these ' Contributions.' 



A memoir by Mr. E. C. Reed, "On the Geodephagous Cole- 

 optera of Chili," appears in the first part of the ' Illustrated 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society' for 1874. 



Dr. Sharp has communicated to the ' Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine' (October, 1874) the description, by Dr. Leconte, of 

 Philadelphia, of a new genus of aquatic Coleoptera (Hydroscapha 

 natans) allied to Limnebius, but differing therefrom, and from all 

 other Hydrophilidfe, by the laminate and widely-separated pos- 

 terior coxse and peculiar abdomen. This remarkable insect, 

 which Dr. Leconte considers as indicating a new family of the 

 Clavicorn series, was found abundantly by the late Mr. Crotch, in 



