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3. On the Issus grylloides, Fabr., distinct from that so named and figured by Spinola. 



4. On a new species of Celonites from Spain, both sexes of which are described 

 under the name of C. dispar. 



5. Remarks on the family Masarides. 



6. On a Hyalomyia (H. dispar) born in the bowels of Brachyderes lusitanicus. 



7. On Musca vitripenuis, the fly which torments the collector in his rambles. 



8. On Otites pulchella of Macquart. 



An abstract of Dr. Asa Fitch's -Memoir upon the Insects captured in winter in the 

 neighbourhood of New York, with Notices of their Habits, appears in our ' Proceed- 

 ings,' p. 95. 



Descriptions of the following Annulosa, collected by Mr. Macgillivray during the 

 voyage of tbe Rattlesnake, have been published by Mr. A. White, in the 'Appendix' 

 to the Narrative of the Expedition. Pachvrhynchus Stanleyanus, (Coleopt. Curculio- 

 nidae) ; Drusilla Myloscha, (Lepidopt. Diurna, Morphidae); Eusemia Mariana, (Lep. 

 Heteroc. Gyrnnautoceridae) ; Ommalocarcinus Macgillivrayi, (Crust. Decap.) ; and 

 Porcellanella triloba. All these species are beautifully figured by Mr. W. Wing. 



Mr. Bowring has communicated to us various notes on the insects of Hong Kong, 

 (' Proceedings,' pp. 76, 104). 



The insects collected by Messrs. Ferret and Galinier in Abyssinia, have been de- 

 scribed by M. Reiche, accompanied by a folio atlas of plates, representing a great num- 

 ber of species. The greater portion of tbe species belong to the Coleoptera (amongst 

 which appear the Compsocephalus Galinieri, distinct from C. Horsfieldianus, White), 

 and a new Paussus), there are, however, a number of new Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Hy- 

 menoptera and Lepidoptera. 



M. Bohemann has published a memoir on the Insects of Gothland (Trans. Royal 

 Acad. Stockholm, for 1849, published 1851), containing lists (and descriptions of some 

 new species) of the orders Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera and Homoptera: and in 

 the ' Proceedings 'of the same Academy for 1850, is another paper on the Coleoptera 

 of the same country, with descriptions of nine new species of different families. 



M. Penis has published a 'Lettre sur une Excursion dans les Grandes Landes,' 

 in the ' Memoirs of the Academy of Lyons,' containing various new species, and a new 

 genus of Diptera, Aphrozeta, consisting of two species. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders has published in our ' Transactions,' (n. s. i. p. 158) a me- 

 moir upon twelve species of insects, belonging to different orders, which are injurious 

 to the cotton-plant. 



Notes upon destructive Insects, by M. Amyot and Col. Goureau, have appeared in 

 the Annales Soc. Ent. France, ix. xxxvi. 



A pathological memoir on the Diseases of Plants produced by the attacks of Aphi- 

 dos, Coccidae, and Acaridae, was read before the Academie des Sciences, by Dr. Ro- 

 bouam, on the 20th of October, 1851. 



A paper by myself, on the following insects obnoxious to the Rose, has appeared 

 in the ' Gardener's Magazine of Botany,' (iii. p. 273). Porthesia auriflua, Balaninus 

 Brassicae, Meligethes aeneus, Lyda inanita, Megachile centuncularis, and Microsetia 

 centifoliella. 



Articles upon the Natural History of the following species, — Lyda fasciata, Bos- 

 trichus capucinus, various species of Apion, Astyages hemerobiella, and Cerostoma 

 Xylostiella, together with two articles on the Generic Characters of Insects, have been 

 published by myself in the ' Gardener's Chronicle ' during the past year. 



