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in its form that of the larvae of Parmena and Calamobius, (' Memoirs of the Royal 

 Academy of Spain,' vol. i. pt. i.) 



Mr. A. White has communicated to us the fact of Monohammus Sutor eating its 

 way through a leaden pipe, (Proceedings, p. 34). 



The destruction of the carrot crop by the larvae of one of the Lepturidas (Phytoecia 

 Ephippium), which form burrows in the roots, has been noticed by M. Lareynie, (Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. p. liv.) 



Crioceeid^,. 

 The larva of Haemonia Gyllenhalii, Lacord. (Donacia Zosters, Gyll.), has been 

 described by M. Lacordaire in the Stettin ' Zeitung,' p. 263. 



Phytophaga. 



The European species of Chrysomela are described by Suffrian in the 5th volume 

 of the ' Linnaea Entomologica.' 



A new Chrysomela (C. islandica, Kohler) has been described by Letzner, in the 

 ' Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Silesia' for 1850. 



M. Lambert notices two instances in which parasitic Muscidae had been produced 

 from Chrysomela Graminis and Timarcha coriaria, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. p. xxii.) 

 The parasite from the former of these insects has been described by M. R. Desvoidy, 

 under the name of Rhinomyia Lamberti, (Op. cit. p. xxvii.) 



M. Leon Fairmaire has published (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 535) a monograph on 

 the genus Cyrtonus, consisting of eleven species, chiefly from Spain, the major part 

 new to science. The memoir published by Messrs. Mulsaut and Wachanru, in the 

 Trans. Acad. Lyons, 1849, has supplied the author with the details relative to the ha- 

 bits and transformations of C. rotundatus. 



The European species of Clythrida? described by Lacordaire, have been revised by 

 Suffnan in the ' Zeitung' of the Stettin Society, p. 194. 



M. Lucas (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 29) has given us some interesting observations 

 on the remarkable striated cocoon and metamorphoses of Clythra octo-signata, Fabr. 



A memoir by Cornelius on the transformations of various species of Cassida, ap- 

 pears in the Stettin ' Zeitung,' p. 88. Those of C. Austriaca are also described by 

 Bach, in the same work, p. 158. 



Orthoptera and Neuroptera. 



Dr. Fischer has published a ' Beitrage' on the Orthoptera and Neuroptera of Breis- 

 gau, (17th Bericht of the ' Mannheimer Vereins.') 



Orthoptera. 



Herr Von Borck has published a revision of the Scandinavian Orthoptera, (Skan- 

 dinaviens Ratvingade Ins. Nat. Hist. ; Lund.) 



A paper upon fossil Blattida? and Acrydites, by Herr Giebel, has appeared in the 

 2nd Jahresbericht of the Natural Society of Halle. 



Locustid^. 

 The Locustidae of Algeria, accompanied by the description of a new and beautiful 

 species, have formed the subject of a memoir by M. Lucas, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1851, 

 3rd trim.) 



