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published of the other Vesicantia. ' Comptes Eendus,' Oct. 1, 1877 

 (p. 638), and Ann. Nat. Hist. (5 Ser., vol. i., p. 104.) 



In the Transactions of the Sviint Louis Academy of Science 

 November 5, 1877, Prof. C. V. Eiley has published an admirable 

 memoir " On the Larval Characters and Habits of the Blister 

 Beetles belonging to the Genera Macrobasis, Lee, and Epicauta, 

 Fabr. : with Remarks on other Species of the Family Meloidee," 

 of which an abstract has been published in the Ent. Monthly 

 Mag., but without the excellent figures with which the original 

 memoir is illustrated. Unlike the allied European genera, the 

 young larvse of the Epicautcs are found of different ages within 

 the egg-pods and devouring the eggs of a locust, Caloptenus 

 spretus. These larvae, however, like their European relatives, go 

 through several hypermetamorphoses, differing, however, in many 

 important respects from Meloe and Sitaris. 



This paper is followed by another by the same author, " On a 

 Remarkable New Genus in Meloidce infesting Mason-Bee Cells in 

 the United States." This new genus and species, named Hornia 

 minutipennis, has the appearance of a small Meloe, but with minute 

 divaricating elytra and quite simple tarsal claws. These two 

 memoirs constitute one of the most important contributions which 

 have recently been made towards the biology of the Coleoptera. 



Mr. Pascoe has published the descriptions of a considerable 

 number of species of Coleoptera from New Zealand, chiefly 

 Curculionidte (Annals Nat. Hist., February, 1877.) 



We are indebted to Drs. John L. Leconte and George H. Horn 

 (_par nobile fratrum) for an 8vo volume of 470 pp. (published as 

 the fifteenth volume of the ' Proceedings of the Americal Philo- 

 sophical Society,' held at Philadelphia, for the Promotion of Useful 

 Knowledge), upon the Rhynchophora of America, north of Mexico. 

 The numerous* species of weevils inhabiting North America are 

 divided into three primary groups : — 



1. Haplogastra. Abdomen alike in both sexes ; pygidium small; elytra 

 without lateral fold on the inner surface. Fam. Rhinomaceridcs, Rhyn- 

 cldtida, and AttelahidcB. 



2. Allogastra. Abdomen dissimilar in the two sexes, those of the males 

 with an additional anal segment ; pygidium large ; elytra with an acute 

 lateral fold on the inner surface. Fam. Brysopida, Otiorhynchidce, Cur- 

 cuHonidcB and BrenthidcB. 



* Unfortunately the enumeration of tbe species is iiregular in the text, 



