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The Transactions of the Linncean Society contain two parts of the 

 Rev. A. E. Eaton's valuable monograph of Recent Ephemeridce, or May- 

 flies, illustrated by two plates of very careful drawings. 

 Turning to Foreign Journals : — 



In the Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, as well as in the 

 Verhandhongen der K. K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft, in Vienna, 

 and the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, of the Dutch Entomological Society, 

 at the Hague, are valuable articles by Professor Schaufuss on the little 

 known families Pselaphidoe and Seydmoe?iidoe. Several butterflies from 

 the Austro-Malayan and Malayan regions are described by Dr. E. G. 

 Honrath, who, also with Dr. H, Dewitz, notices the rare Papilio cacicus in 

 the Deutsche E ' ntomologische Zeitschrift. The Iris Society, in Dresden, 

 publishes an interesting essay by Dr. E. Haase, " on the odoriferous 

 apparatus in the Indo- Australian Lepidoptera," and Mr. J. Rober des- 

 cribes some new Indian butterflies. 



Economic Entomology. — The work done in this direction in the 

 Indian Museum has already been noticed. The Journal of the Agri- 

 Horticultural Society of India contains an interesting paper, by Mr. 

 W. J. Simmons, on the Mango Weevil (Gryptorhynchus mangifera). 

 This weevil has been further investigated by a Committee of the 

 Microscopical Society, which, although unsuccessful in ascertaining how 

 this pest gains access to the fruit, found that, unlike some of the 

 fruit-infesting weevils, it passed its larval and pupal stages in the fruit 

 and only quits it as a perfect insect, and they obtained a good deal of 

 other information I'egarding this and other pests infecting the mango. 

 In the same Journal Mr. Cotes describes the work of the United 

 States Entomological Commission, which has been so successfuly carried 

 out under Professor Riley. 



Arachnidans. — The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society con- 

 tains an interesting notice by the Rev. Fr. Dreckmann, with a note by 

 Mr. Wood-Mason, and a collotype plate from life, of the simultaneous 

 Twin Parturition of Bnthus afer, the Black Rock-Scorpion ; also a paper 

 by Mr. E. W. Oates ; " on the Indian and Burmese Scorpions of the 

 genus Isometrus, with descriptions of three new species." 



Crustaceans. — In our own Journal, No. IV, part 2, for 1887, Mr. 

 Wood-Mason, who has done so much in establishing the sea-dredeiner 

 operations of the Marine Survey on an efficient basis, and in working 

 out the results, gives a description of a new species of the Brachyurous 

 genus Lyreidns from the depths of the Andaman Sea, obtained by 

 Commander Carpenter, R. N., of the Indian Government Marine Survey 

 Steamer, "Investigator;" and in No. 3 of 1888, Dr. Giles, the natura- 

 list to the Survey, gives " Further notes on the Aw/phipoda of Indian 

 waters." Dr. De Man's valuable report on the Podopthalmous Crusta- 

 ceans from the Mergui Archipelago has already been noticed. 



