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west of the one hundredth meridian, and published as part of 

 an Appendix (J J.) to the ' Annual Report of the Chief of the 

 Engineers,' Washington, 1876. 



A descriptive account of the GicindelidcB and Carahidce collected 

 by Raffray in Abyssinia, including a number of new species, is 

 published by Baron Chaudoir in the Eev. and Mag. Zool. 1876, 

 (pts. 10 and 11.) 



" Notes on the CicindelidcB of the United States," by Dr. J. L. 

 Leconte, published in the Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc. (v. 5), 

 contains the description of a new species of Omus, six new species 

 of Cicindela, with figures of the elytra of several species', 

 including G. Magdalence, so named by Dr. Leconte in com- 

 memoration of his visit to Magdalen College, Oxford, the only 

 known specimen of which species is in the Hope Collection in 

 the Oxford Museum. 



*' Notes on the Rhysodidce of the United States," by Dr. J. L. 

 Leconte, also published in the Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. (vol. v.), 

 contains descriptions of two species of the singular genus 

 Rhysodes (one new), three species of Clinidium, Klug. (one new). 

 These descriptions are followed by an inquiry into the relations 

 of the Rhysodidce, which are considered as most intimately allied 

 to the Cupesidce, and as " quite distinct from any existing types, 

 and as the ' remains ' of a series of Coleoptera existing in former 

 times which was of an undifferentiated nature, and was the original 

 stem, or contained the ancestry, if I may use the realistic expres- 

 sion of a modern school, of the several series which are comprised 

 in the now existing great complex of normal Coleoptera with the 

 penultimate joint of the tarsi not anchylosed to the last joint, 

 consisting of the series Adephaga, Clavicornia, Lamellicornia and 

 Serricornia." 



" Description of New Coleoptera of the United States : with 

 Notes on Geographical Distribution," by Dr. J. L. Leconte, 

 appears in the ' Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ' (vol. 5). Twenty-five 

 new species of different families are here described. 



A very careful investigation of the whole of the structure and 

 character of the genus Hypocephalus, one of the most ano- 

 malous of known beetles, by Dr. J. L. Leconte, has been pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society 

 (vol. v.), followed by a comparison with the characters of other 

 Coleopterous groups, with which it has been assumed to be 



