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is not deep, there will yet be found some extracts from 

 other authors, which will not only prove interesting, but 

 instructive. 



3. Annales de la Socicte Ejitomologique de France : tr'i- 

 mestre 1, 2, et 3. — We hail with delight the establishment of 

 an Entomological Society in Paris, and sincerely hope that the 

 example may shortly be followed in this country, where the 

 taste for the study seems to be every day increasing. Three 

 numbers of their Transactions have already been published, 

 which we most cordially recommend to the notice of our 

 countrymen. Amongst the contents we observe, " Opening 

 Discourse, by M. Latreille ;" " Observations on the mode of 

 writing Papers on Natural History, particularly Monographs, 

 by M. Godet;" "Memoir on Gorytes, by M. Pelletier de 

 Saint-Fargeau ;" " Notice of a new Genus of Homoptera, by 

 M. Laporte ;" " Monograph of a new Genus of Curculionidae, 

 by M. Chevrolet ;" " A new Classification of the Family Longi- 

 cornes, by M. Audinet-Serville ;" " Observations on Bombyx 

 Pitiocampa, by M. de Villiers ;" " Monographs of two new 

 Genera of Curculionidae, by M. Chevrault;" " Description of a 

 new Tetralobus, by M. Gory;" " Memoir of some new Genera 

 of Homoptera, by M. Laporte," &c. &c. 



4. Revue Methodiqiie des Inscctes de VOrdre des Orthop- 

 tereSf par J. G. Audinet-Serville. — This clever little essay 

 has been previously published piece-meal in the " Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles," but now for the first time appears as 

 a whole. The Orthoptera are divided into seven families, 

 Forjiculaires, Blattaires, Mantides, Spectres, Grylloniens, 

 Locustaires and Acridites : we may observe that Mantides 

 and Spectres seem to us scarcely to constitute two separate 

 groups, being in every respect so nearly allied ; we also feel at 

 a loss how to account for the omission of the genus Thrips, 

 which appears to us decidedly Orthopterous. 



5. Centurie de Leptidopteres de Vile de Cuba, par M. Poey. 

 — The figures in this work are well engraved, but it strikes us, 

 rather indifferently coloured. The most remarkable insect 

 figured, is Mastigopliorus Parra, one of the family Pijralidce, 

 with palpi which are considerably longer than the whole length 



