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of Olivier by Mr. Hope, consist of a tabular view of one hundred and twenty- 
one species of Melolontha, with the “ country and arrangement of authors,” 
and of critical and descriptive remarks on fifty-six species of Melolontha—the 
alba, commersonii, serrata, villosa, alopex, solstitialis, pini, oblonga, cornuta, 
glauca, lutea, elongata, bimaculata, femoralis, caerulea, czeruleocephala, bi- 
punctata, globator, rauca, rufa, errans, innuba, nitidula, aulica, gibba, versi- 
color, variabilis, zebra, vittata, vulpes, crinita, proboscidea, limbata, praticola, 
regia, marginata, atomaria, crassipes, podagricus, gonagra, longipes, monti- 
cola, varians, hamorrhoidalis, picipes, ignea and 12-punctata, A descrip- 
tion of two new beetles belonging to MacLeay’s Cetoniidean family, with 
good illustrative figures, is given by Mr. White, who proposes that Platyge- 
ma macleaii and Eudibella morgani may be accepted as the distinctive appel- 
lations of his new insects. Mr. Strickland confirms the claims of Ardea alba, 
the great egret or white heron, to be considered a British bird. Remarks on 
the synonymy of the Perlites, with brief characters of the old, and of a few 
mew species, are advanced concisely by Mr. Newman; he then treats for- 
mally of Eusthenia thalia, E. spectabilis, Pteronarcys regalis, P. biloba, P. pro- 
teus, Perla abnormis, P. lycorias, P. xanthemes, P. bicaudata, P. marginata, P. 
cephalotes and P. cymodoce. In the shape of a critical review, you have an 
account of that portion of Dr. Smith’s Illustrations of the Zoology of South 
Africa; and, in this article, the attention of naturalists is directed to the 
Cetonidean group of insects. Last of all, for January, an extract from Prof. 
Grant’s observations on the footmarks of Chirotherium lately detected in the 
Stourton stone-quarries, instructively occupies the department of scientific 
intelligence. 
No. XXVI, Fesruary.—M. de Blainville promulgates, through an 
English version, his “ New Doubts” relating to the Didelphis of Stonesfield, 
and persists in retaining for it the name Amphitheriwm which he originally 
proposed : he regrets that the scientific conductors of the journal called “the 
Atheneum” should have embarrassed science by facetiously proposing the 
name ‘“ Botheratiotherium” for the Didelphis of the oolite, as a means of 
evincing his impartiality! From Mr. Bean’s pen, you are provided with a 
catalogue of the fossils found in the Cornbrash Limestone of Scarborough, 
with figures and descriptions of some of the undescribed species—as, the 
Tubipora incrustans, Amphidesma decussatum, Sanguinolaria parvula, Cardium 
globosum, Isocardia triangularis, Anomia semistriata, Bulla undulata and Lit- 
torina punctura : his figures are beautifully distinct and elegant. Dr. Drum- 
mond’s notices of Irish Entozoa, on this occasion, extend to the Echinorhyn- 
chus hystrix and E. filicollis, which are admirably figured and described with 
singular perspicuity. With a few observations on some of the natural ob- 
jects in the neighbourhood of Cheadle, Mr. Carter adds his mite to the infor- 
mation chiefly on local botany : he discovered the Valeriana pyrenaica grow- 
ing in tolerable abundance, by the side ofa stream flowing along the bosom 
of a ravine, near the village of Oakamoor. Mr. Blyth proceeds with his ana- 
lytic descriptions of the groups of birds composing the order Strepitores : his 
article is excellent, and embraces the ZyGopacty ti Levirostres, consisting 
of the Rhamphastyd@ or the toucan family, and the Musophagide or the tou- 
raco and coly family. With observations on his three new genera, Isogenus, 
Chloroperla and Leptoperla, the monograph of Mr. Newman on the synonymy 
of the Perurres with specific characters, is concluded : his species are Iso- 
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