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ScOLYTIDX. 



A note by Kollar on the injuries committed in Austria by Tomicus typographus, 

 appears in the Proc. Royal Acad. Sci. Vienna. 



Bruchid^;. 

 The fact of the importation of myriads of Bruchus rufimanus, Sch., into Newcas- 

 tle-on-Tyne, in a cargo of beans from Sicily, is recorded by Mr. Bold, (Zool. 3289). 



CURCULIONID.E. 



Mr. Bold has also published the result of some experiments, in which specimens 

 of Calandra granaria were immersed in water from 1 to 15 days; even after the 

 latter period some few survived, (Zool. 3289). 



Mr. Walton's revision of the Curculionidae has been continued (Ann. Nat. Hist, 

 vii. 310); the genera Dorytomus (with 16 species) and Elleschus (with 2 species) be- 

 iug described in detail. 



An extensive memoir by Hochhuth, on the Curculionidae of Russia, has appeared 

 in the Bulletin Soc. Hist. Nat. Moscow, 1851, pt. i. 



A new genus of Curculionidae (Cotaster, type Phlseophagus uncipes, Schonh.), and 

 a new French species belonging thereto, have been described by M. Motschoulsky, 

 (Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 425). 



Another new genus near Mesites, taken near Lille, has been described by M. E. 

 Cussac under the name of Elmidomorphus Aubei, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 206). 



The occurrence of Trachoides hispida, Sch., a weevil new to Britain, in the New 

 Forest, is annouuced by Mr. J. Walker (Zool. 3102), and that of Acalyptus Carpini 

 and Mecinus collaris, two new British weevils, by Mr. S. Stevens, (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 July, 1851). 



Captain Godart has published a note on the powder-like matter which covers the 

 elytra of Lixus angustatus, and other species, which he considers not to be cryptoga- 

 mous, as has been asserted by Laboulbene and denied by Coquerel, (Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. ix. p. xiii.) 



Longicornia. 



Mr. A. White's descriptions of exotic longicorn beetles, including several new ge- 

 nera, read at a previous meeting of the Zoological Society, have been published in the 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 70. 



An abstract of Mr. Newman's monograph on the Australian genus Distichocera, 

 in which D. fulvipennis is regarded as the female of D. maculicollis, and three other 

 species described, appears in the 'Zoologist,' 3091 and 3122. Descriptions of many 

 Australian species of longicorns, by the same author, appear in the ' Zoologist.' (See 

 ante, p. 146). 



A note by M. Lucas, on some of the species of Purpuricenus, appears in the Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. p. x. 



A monograph of the genus Cometes (containing 4 species) by M. Buquet, is pub- 

 lished in the Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 188. 



M. Lucas describes a new species of Clytus from Algeria, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 

 p. xxxi.); and a new Phytoecia from Algeria, (Ibid. p. xli.) 



M. Graells has published the description and figures of the transformations of Aga- 

 panthia irrorata, the larva of which resides in the stems of Onopordon, and resembles 



