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' Shilling Bee-book,' and of the ' Description of the Bar and Frame Hive invented by 

 W. A. Muni), Esq., (Van Voorst, 1851). Dr. Bevan has also published two lectures 

 on bee-culture, under the title of ' Hints on the History and Management of the Ho- 

 ney-bee.' 



Hemiptera and Homopetra. 



A paper by Wallenberg, on the Hemiptera and Homoptera of Eastern Scania, ap- 

 pears in the ' Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Stockholm,' for 1850. 



Hemiptera. 



The first part of the ' Catalogue of the Hemipterous Insects in the British Muse- 

 um Collection,' containing a very great number of new species, by Mr. Dallas, has 

 been published by the Trustees. The care bestowed by the author upon this first part 

 merits the thanks of the entomological world. 



M. Signoret has described 16 new species of Hemiptera from Gaboon, chiefly be- 

 longing to the Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae, (Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 438). 



A number of new exotic species of Pentatomides and Edessides have been described 

 and illustrated with an excellent plate, by the same author, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1851, 

 3rd trim.) ; and a new species of Petascelis, of large size, from Port Natal, has been 

 described by him, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 121). 



Mr. Dallas has published a monograph on the four British species of Acanthosoma, 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. i. n. s. 109). 



A new species of Rhyparochromus (R. brachiideus) has been described by M. L. 

 Dufour, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1851, 3rd trim.) 



Homoptera. 



Dr. Asa Fitch's ' Synoptical Catalogue of the Homopterous Insects of the State 

 of New York,' has appeared in the ' Fourth Annual Report of the Regents of the Uni- 

 versity on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History.' The new species 

 described are numerous (including a new Otiocerus, named after our late Honorary 

 President, 0. Kirbii), and several new genera are added in the Membracids and Tet- 

 tigoniidae. 



The 2nd and 3rd parts of Mr. F. Walker's ' Catalogue of the Homoptera contain- 

 ed in the British Museum Collection,' has been published by the Trustees. 



Some notes by Dr. G. B. Smith, on the periodical appearance in America of the 

 Cicada septendecim, have been communicated to us by Mr. Spence (Proceedings, 80). 

 A further note on the same subject, by the late Mr. R. Spence, appears at p. 103. 



A paper by myself, on new exotic species of Homoptera chiefly belonging to the 

 genera separated from Derbe, has been published in the Ann. Nat. Hist. vii. 208. 



M. Signoret has published a monograph on the Australian genus Eurymela, con- 

 taining observations on the position of this genus among the Cereopidae, and descrip- 

 tions of 18 species, 10 of which are new to science, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 497). 



A paper by Herr Tollin on various species of Cicadellina, including the genus Ty- 

 phlocyba, appears iu the Stettin ' Zeitung,' p. 67. 



