LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. XSVll 



Lepidoptera, by Mr. A. W. Scott, illustrated with good figures 

 drawn by that gentleman's daughters. 



Upon the lower and less studied orders of insects, the works of 

 sufficient importance to require mention here are not numerous. 

 Dr. Schiner's Diptera of the Austrian Fauna, published in 1863 and 

 1864, is a valuable handbook for the student of the European 

 species of that order ; and the same author has published two me- 

 moirs on the venation of the wing in the Diptera, and on the 

 classification of those insects, in the Yerhandlungen der zoologisch- 

 botanischen Gresellschafb in Wien for 1864, and also a syste- 

 matic catalogue of the Diptera of Europe. Dr. Loew of Meseritz 

 has continued his monographs of the North American Diptera, in 

 the Smithsonian Contributions, the monograph of the Dolichopo- 

 didse having appeared in 1864. The obscure and difficult group of 

 the Trichoptera or Phyganidse has formed for some years the chief 

 object of Mr. McLachlan's studies ; and last year the results of 

 his investigations were published by the Entomological Society. 

 This appears to be an admirable memoir, carefully elaborated, and 

 is profusely illustrated witli figures of structural details, drawn by 

 the author himself. The ' British Hemiptera' of Messrs. Douglas 

 and Scott, published by the Eay Society, also comes opportunely to 

 fill up a gap in our entomological literature ; but few other works 

 of any consequence have appeared on this order, if we except the 

 'Hemiptera Africana' of Dr. Stal, of which the first part, in- 

 cluding the descriptions of the African Scutata, appeared in 1864. 



With regard to the lower forms of animal life, we have only 

 to mention a very few memoirs. On the Annellida, M. de Quatre- 

 fages has published, in the Comptes Eendus of the Academy of 

 Sciences at Paris, and in the Annales des Sciences NatureUes, the 

 tabular synopsis of the classification which he intends to adopt in 

 his great work on these animals, to be published in the Suites a 

 Buffon. In 1864 Professor Claparede brought out a valuable 

 memoir on this class of animals in the Memoires de la Societe de 

 Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Greneve, under the title of 

 '■' Grianures zootomiques parmi les Annelides de Port-Yendres ; " 

 and Professor Ehlers published the first portion of a work entitled 

 " Die Borstenwiirmer nach systematischen und anatomischen TJn- 

 tersuchungen dargestellt."' Both these works are of great value, 

 as is also a conjoint memoir by MM. Van Beneden and Hesse, 

 which has appeared in the Memoires de 1' Academic Eoyale de Bel- 

 gique under the title of " Eecherches sur les Bdellodes et les Tre- 

 matodes marins." 



