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Government, on the Pishes of Zanzibar ; the Monograph Mr. J. C. 

 Cox has commenced of the Land-shells of Australia ; Mr. Gwyn Jef- 

 freys's British Conchology, of which four volumes have appeared ; a 

 continuation, at somewhat irregular intervals, of Messrs. Si)ence Bate 

 and Westwood's British Sessile-eyed Crustacea ; Mr. G. S. Brady's 

 paper on Marine Ostracoda, now printing for our Transactions ; Miss 

 Stanley's little Popular History of British Spiders ; Sir John Lub- 

 bock's papers on Thysanura, on Chloeon, and on Pnuropus in our 

 Transactions; Dr. Baird's papers on animals of the lower orders 

 in our Journal ; and very numerous entomological papei's, which 

 I leave more especially to the Entomological Society to review and 

 discuss. 



Mr. Gould's great illustrated work on the Birds of Asia has reached 

 its 20th part ; twelve parts are now published of his * Birds of Great 

 Britain ; ' and a fourth supplemental part of his ' Birds of Australia' 

 has very recently aj^peared. Messrs. Sclater and Salvin have com- 

 menced, under the title of ' Exotic Ornithology,' an important work 

 intended as a sort of continuation of the ' Planches Coloriees ' and of 

 the ' Iconographie Ornithologique ' of Temminck, comprising detailed 

 descriptions and figures of new or imperfectly known exotic birds, 

 accompanied 'by synopses of species of the genera to which they 

 respectively belong. The five parts published relate exclusively to 

 Tropical American Birds. Of the late Mr. Heeve's ' Conchologia 

 Iconica,' fifteen parts have appeared since the beginning of 1866 ; 

 Mr. Hewitson continues his beautifully illustrated works on Exotic 

 Butterflies ; Mr. Stainton has completed the first series of ten volumes 

 of his ' Natural History of Tineina.' 



I copy from Mr. Dallas's notes the following observations, as I 

 have not had time myself to look into either of the works mentioned: — 

 " Mr. WoUaston has followed up his valuable investigations of the 

 Coleoptera. of the Madeira and Canary islands with an examination 

 of those of the Cape Verde Islands, the result of which he has 

 published under the title of ' Coleoptera Hespcridum.' From this 

 work we find that the coleopterous fauna of these distant islands 

 presents a most marked resemblance to that of the more northern 

 groups, which had previously engaged Mr. WoUaston's attention. 

 Notwithstanding their much more southern position, there is but 

 little to indicate a more tropical or African character about them ; 

 so that, at least as far as Coleoptera are concerned, Mr. Wollaston 

 thinks that all these Atlantic islands may be regarded as belonging 

 to a single fauna. In the Cape Verdes, again, as in the Canaries and 



