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Voyage of llie Samarang : the author has added thirty-six others, his 

 total number being sixty-five comprised in eighteen genera. The 

 descriptions are written with great care, perspicuity and elegance, and 

 the paper is profusely illustrated with lithographed figures by Mr. G. 

 B. Sowerby, forty-one of the species being figured. The new species 

 are — Leucosia orbicularis from Australia, L. pallida from the Eastern 

 Archipelago, L. obscnra from the Piiilippine Islands, L. marmorea 

 from the Philippine Islands, L. punctata from the Indian Ocean, L. 

 affinis from the Philippine Islands, L. brevimana from the Philippine 

 Islands, L. margaritacea from the Eastern Archipelago, L. Whitei 

 from the coast of Australia, L, Cumingii from the Philippine Islands, 

 L. pulchella from the Chinese Seas, L. phyllocheira from the Island 

 of Borneo, Persephona orbicularis from Valparaiso, P. Edwardsii 

 from the Galapago Islands, Myra affinis from the Philippine Islands, 

 M. elegans from the Eastern Archipelago, M. mammillaris from the 

 coast of Australia, Myrodes eudactylus from the Philippine Islands, 

 Philyra laevis from Adelaide, P. Adamsii — habitat unknown, P. punc- 

 tata from the West coast of Africa, P. carinata from the Island of 

 Borneo, P. macrophthalma from the Indian Ocean, Phlyxia crassipes 

 from the Eastern coast of Australia, P. lambriformis from the Eastern 

 coast of Australia, P. leevis from New Zealand, Lithadia Cumingii 

 from the coast of Central America, Oreophorus nodosus — habitat un- 

 known, Nursia abbreviata from the Indian Ocean, Nursilia dentata 

 from the Indian Ocean, Arcania septemspinosa — habitat unknown, 

 A. tuberculata from the Island of Borneo, A. gracilipes from the Island 

 of Borneo, A. laevimana from the Philippine Islands. The new 

 genera are five in number — Leucosilia allied to Persephona of Leach, 

 Myrodes allied to Myra of Leach, Phlyxia and Lithadia allied to 

 Ebalia of Leach, and Nursilia allied to Nursia of Leach. 



Illustrated * Proceedings of the Zoological Society.^ 



In the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' Mr. Westwood 

 has the following papers : — " Descriptions of some Species of Lepi- 

 dopterous Insects belonging to the Genus Oiketicos, chiefly from New 

 Holland:" this paper is accompanied by four plates of transforma- 

 tions. " Descriptions of some New Species of Clerida3 collected at 

 Singapore by Mr. Wallace : " accompanied by one plate, containing 

 twelve species. " Descriptions of some New Species of Exotic 

 Moths mostly belonging or allied to the Genus Saturnia : " eleven 

 species are described, accompanied by two plates. 



