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Dr. Lereboullet has also described a monstrous Melolontha vulgaris, Laving its right 

 antenna furnished with three distinct seven-leaved clubs, (Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 433). 



Instances of monstrosity occurring in Calosoma Sycophanta and Oberea oculata, 

 are described by Stollvverk in ' Verhandlungen' of the Prussian Rhenish Natural His- 

 tory Society, 7th year. 



M. Jacquelin Duval (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 533), has described a curious case of 

 monstrosity observed in the left outer maxillary palpus of Bembidium striatum, the an- 

 tepenultimate joint being dilated and triangular, supporting three distinct penultimate 

 joints, each with a minute terminal subulated joint ; the inner corresponding palpus 

 having the last joint elongated, wide, and flattened, terminated by two small points. 

 M. Laboulbene has added a list of fifteen cases of monstrosities observed in the an- 

 tennae of insects. 



A remakable variety of Bombyx castrensis, in which the ordinary colour and mark- 

 ings are entirely effaced, and which the author regards as " due a cette maladie qu'on 

 appelle albinisme," has been described and figured by M. de la Chavignerie, (Ann. 

 Soc. Fr. ix. 101). 



Several notes on living specimens of lobsters of a red and blue colour, the variation 

 of colour, also supposed to be the result of a disease analogous to albinism, have been 

 read before the Academie des Sciences on the 22nd of September, 1851, by M. Guerin, 

 6th of October by M. Lereboullet (by whom also the description of a new species of 

 Astacus was communicated), by M. Foullon and by M. Vallot. 



An Obituary Notice of the late Honorary President of our Society, communicated 

 by Mr. Spence, accompanied by a fac simile of a remarkably characteristic full-length 

 sketch of Mr. Kirby, and a detailed account of his writings, furnished by myself, ap- 

 pear in our ' Proceedings,' pp. 19 — 32. 



Our late President's Annual Address for 185!, contains extensive bibliographical 

 notices of entomological works published in 1850. 



M. Bohemann's resumk of the entomological works published in 1847-48, has been 

 published by the Royal Academy of Stockholm, (8vo., 1851). 



Dr. Schaum has undertaken the continuation of the Annual Reports of the Pro- 

 gress of Entomology, commenced by Burmeister and continued by Erichson up to his 

 decease, when the coleopterous and hymenopterous works published in 1847 were re- 

 viewed. Dr. Schaum's first aunual summary comprises the works published on the 

 remaining orders in 1847, and all published in 1848, forming a closely printed volume 

 of 212 pages. These summaries are of the highest utility. 



A periodical work has been commenced at Breslau by the Silesian Entomological 

 Society, under the title of 'Zeitschrift fur Entomologie.' 



The ' Proceedings ' of the fifth and sixth annual meetings of the Entomological 

 Society of the Netherlands, for 1849-50, have appeared, and contain a number of short 

 notices, and two of greater extent by Dr. Verloren on the pupation and development 

 of various Lepidoptera, especially Sphinx Ligustri and Psyche nitidella. 



M. Dufour has published (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 55), under the title of 'Melanges 

 Entomologiques,' a series of notices relative to the following subjects -. — 



1. Etude de l'Entomologie. Observations on the Superior Advantages of Studying 

 the External Structure, Habits, Transformations, and Internal Anatomy of In- 

 sects, in lieu of the Technicalities of Species, in which he asserts that instead 

 of " in parvo copia, n we find " in copia parvmn." 



2. Notes on the Habitat of Serenthia laeta (Agramma lata, West.) 



