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a river of South California ; and another minute species, simul- 

 taneously described by Dr. Sharp {loc. cit.) under the name of 

 Hydroscapha Crotchi, was captured by Mr. Crotch and by himself 

 in some pools near Madrid. 



In the same publication we also meet with descriptions of 

 various new exotic Coleoptera, by Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, the 

 Rev. H. S. Gorham, Mr. George Lewis, and Dr. Pdtsema ; of 

 others from Japan, and of new Cossonidse from various localities, 

 by Mr. Vernon WoUaston ; of a new species of Cremastocheilus 

 from California, by Professor Westwood ; of two new species of 

 Cetoniidte, of two new genera and some new species of Pselaphidge, 

 and of two new genera of Scarabeidte from Egypt and Arabia, by 

 Dr. Sharp. 



"A Revision of the Genera Epicharis, Centris, Eulema and 

 Euglossa, belonging to the Family Apidse," by Mr. Frederick 

 Smith, has been published in the ' Annals of Natural History ' 

 (Nos. 70—78, 1874). 



The Rev. T. A. Marshall has described a new genus and three 

 new species of Oxyura from Corsica in the 'Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine' (Nos. 117, 118). 



Several papers by the late Francis Walker, on the genera of 

 this remarkable tribe, with illustrations, have appeared in the 

 pages of the ' Entomologist.' 



M. S. C. Snellen Van Vollenhoven, in the fourth part of his 

 ' Schetsen ten Gebruike bij de Studie der Hymenoptera,' has 

 figured a large number of this group, in four excellent oblong- 

 folio plates, published under the auspices of the Entomological 

 Society of the Netherlands. 



Professor Westwood has also figured and described some new 

 genera and many interesting species of the same tribe, m his 

 aforesaid ' Thesaurus' (plates 29 and 30). 



The beautifully illustrated works of Mr. Hewitson on Exotic 

 Butterflies,' and of Mr. Butler, under the title of ' Lepidoptera 

 Exotica,' have extended, in the former case to --ty-t iree 

 parts, and in the latter to twenty, each mamtainmg that high 

 character for which they have been so justly esteemech It s 

 however to be regretted that, for the reasons set foith n tli^ 

 :ef to this fii completed volume, Mr. Butler sjrk^.^^^ 

 Lot be continued; the more especially as, -^^^^^^^^ 

 intrinsic merits, the illustrations lu chromo-hthogiaph) 



