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PsYLLID.E. 



The 3rd part of the 1st volume of the ' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van 

 Dieman's Land,' contaius a curious paper on the secretion called Laap or Lerp, formed 

 upon the leaves of certain Eucalypti, by different species of Psyllidse, descriptions of 

 which are also given, by Mr. Thomas Dobson. 



Dr. Anderson has also communicated the description of a new species of Manna 

 from New South Wales, in the same work. 



CocciDiE. 



Descriptions of two new species of Aleyrodes (A. Aceris and A. Phyllicea *) and 

 various new species of Coccidae, have been published by Bouche in the Stettin ' Zei- 

 tung,' 109. 



APHIDiE. 



The discovery of a wingless species of Aphidae, destitute of anal tubercles, in an 

 ants' nest, has been recorded by Mr. Meade, (Zool. 3222). 



A curious new genus which infests the leaves of Quercus sessiliflora, forming small 

 circular galls, has been described by Kollar under the name of Acanthochermes Quer- 

 cus, (' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Sciences of Vienna'). 



Lepidoptera. 



Dr. Herrick-Sohaffer has continued both the plates and text of his fine work, the 

 ' Syslematisches Bearbitung.' 



Heir Heydenreich has published a ' Lepidopterorum Europaorum Catalogus Me- 

 thoclicus,' 8vo., Leipzig. 



Two memoirs by Wallenberg, on the Lepidoptera of Eastern Scania, with tables 

 of the months in which the insects appear in the larva and perfect states, is published 

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



Notes on various Lepidoptera by Herren Schmidt, Bremi and Zeller, appear in the 

 Stettin ' Zeitung,' pp. 74, 83, 145. 



A notice of the Lepidoptera of Brunswick, by Herr Heinemann, with a list of the 

 species, appears in the Stettin ' Zeitung,' 55. 



Nickerl has published the 1st part of a ' Synopsis of the Lepidoptera of Bohemia,' 

 (royal 8vo. 1850). 



Dr. Von Nordman has given a notice of the Lepidoptera of Taurian Caucasus, 

 with 6 plates, in the ' Bulletin Soc. Nat. Moscow ; ' and Dr. Eversmann has also pub- 

 lished some new Russian species in the same work. 



The Lepidoptera of the neighbourhood of Bologna have been published by Berto- 

 lini, (Hist. Lepidopt. Agri Bonon. 4to. 1850). 



A list of 49 species of Lepidoptera from Southern Persia, including 10 new species 

 of Diurnal Lepidoptera, described by Kollar, has appeared in the 1st volume of the 

 ' Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Vienna.' 



A paper by Signor Bertolini, on the Lepidoptera of Mozambique, has appeared in 

 the ' Transactions of the Academy of Bologna.' It contains descriptions of only 3 new 

 species, belonging to the genera Papilio, Hesperia, aud Deilephila. 



* Sic. An A. Phillyreae, Holiday ? 



