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in geographical regions very remote from each other corresponded 

 with what Dr. Leconte had previously shown in the other higher 

 types of Coleoptera, and he again expressed the opinion that the 

 isolated and feebly represented, though sometimes widely dis- 

 tributed forms in insects, were representative survivals of the 

 faunae of former geological periods. 



A supplement to the list of Dutch Coleoptera, hj Dr. J. E. Everts, 

 with an especial list of the Halticida, carefully worked out by 

 A. F. Leesberg, is given in the 4th part of the 90th volume of the 

 'Transactions' of the Dutch Entomological Society. The total 

 number of species recorded is 2397. 



Mr. Baly has, with unwearied industry, continued his descrip- 

 tions of the interminable species of Phytophagous Beetles. The 

 ' Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' vol. xiii., con- 

 tains descriptions of thirty new Australian species, four of which 

 constitute new genera belonging to the families Chrysomelidw and 

 HalticincB. 



A monograph of the Phytophagous genus Eumolpus, together 

 with descriptions of new species belonging to that family, is pub- 

 lished by Mr. Baly, in Trans. Ent. Soc, 1877, as well as a paper 

 containg descriptions of new exotic genera and species of Crypto- 

 cephalides. Papers, by the same writer, on exotic species of 

 Phytophagous beetles, of various families and of various 

 countries, appear in Ann. Nat. Hist. (Ser. 3, vol. i.) ; and in the 

 seventeenth part of the ' Cistula Entom.ologica,' Mr. Baly has 

 published descriptions of a number of new species of exotic 

 Phytophaga, without any indications of the families to which they 

 belong. This desultory and ubiquitous mode of publication is 

 most inconvenient to the student of the great tribe to which 

 Mr. Baly devotes his labours. 



Orthoptera. 

 Dr. C. Stal has published a considerable addition to our know- 

 ledge of South African Orthoptera, collected in Damaraland and 

 Ovampo, in his " Bidrag till sodra Afrikas Orthopter fauna," in 

 the ' Kongl. Vet. Akad. forhandl.' (1876) : the greater number of 

 new species, with various new genera, belong to the Acridiodea 

 and Locustina. A list is also given of twenty -one species from 

 Cape Land, including one new species, Maxentius fu§co- 

 fasciatus. 



