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to North Western Wyoming : — Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, 

 Coleoptera, and Neuroptera ; with dates and localities. 



All the preceding memoirs are by J. D, Putnam. 



7. List of Hymenoptera collected by J. D. Putnam ; with 

 descriptions of two new species, Nomada Putnami and Anthophora 

 albata. By E. T. Cresson. 



The Proceedings of the Linnean Society contain an abstract of 

 a memoir, by Mr. M'Lachlan, of the insects collected in the late 

 Arctic Expedition. A notice of this paper has appeared in 

 'Nature' of the 22nd December last. 



The Annulosa collected at the Duke of York Island, New 

 Ireland, and new Britain, have been described in the Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society, 1877 (part 1), as follows: — The 

 Crustacea (sixteen species), by E. J. Miers ; the Lepidoptera 

 (forty Ehopalocera and ten Heterocera, including Alcides aurora, 

 pi. 23, figs., 6, 6), by Messrs. Salvin and Godman; and the 

 Coleoptera (forty-four species, including new species of Dipelicus, 

 Oryctoderus, and Batocera), by H. W. Bates. 



The collections of articulated animals, found at the Galapagos 

 Islands during the visit of H.M.S. 'Petrel,' have been described 

 in the Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. for 1877: — The Crustacea 

 (four species), by E.J. Miers ; the Myriapoda and Arachnida 

 (seven species), by A. G. Butler; the Coleoptera (including 

 several new genera), by C. O. Waterhouse ; the Hymenoptera (five 

 species) and Diptera (one species), by E. Smith; the Neuroptera, 

 by R. M'Lachlan ; the Lepidoptera (two species), the Orthoptera 

 (six species), the Hemiptera (nine species), and the Homoptera 

 (nine species), by A. G. Butler. 



Some notes, by Mr. W. Macleay, on the Entomology of New 

 Ireland, have been published in the Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New. South Wales (vol. i,, part 4). 



Mr. B. M'Lachlan has called attention (in ' Nature,' vol. xvii.. 

 No. 162, December 27, 1877) to the remarkable fact, having 

 reference to the geographical distribution of animals, that in Chili 

 and the extreme southern portion of South America there are 

 found several well-marked palsearctic or nearctic forms not found 

 otherwise in America, South of Mexico, and equally unknown in 

 the southern hemisphere of the Old World. Such are the genera 

 — Carabus, Argynnis, and Colias — to which Mr. M'Lachlan adds 

 several Trichoptera, of the family Limnophilidce, which are rich 



