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with the same liberality in respect to the rare, sometimes unique spe- 

 cimens, which these collections possess. 



Illustrations of Ornithology. By Sir W. Jardine, and P. J. Selby, 

 (New Series.) No. I. Edinburgh, Lizars, 1837- 4to. and imp. 4to. 

 The first Number of this " New Series of Ornithological Plates" is 

 published, and contains figures of Pernis apivorus, Hypsipetes Ga- 

 n-eesa, Brachypus eutilotus, N. s., Janthocincla squamata, Columba 

 princeps, Crax Yarrellii. The parts will appear at intervals of 

 from six weeks to two months, and will each contain six illustra- 

 tions, accompanied by descriptions, and occasional wood-cuts repre- 

 senting the characteristic parts of new or little known genera. 



Transactions and Periodicals — British. 



Transactions of the hinnaean Society of London, Vol. xvii. Part 

 the Third. 4to London, 1836. 



A continuation of the volume and commencing with XV. Descriptions 



fyc. of the insects collected by Captain P. King, R. N., F. R. S., in the Survey of 

 the Straits of Magellan. By John Curtis, Esq., A. H. Haliday, Esq., and 

 Francis Walker, Esq. Mr Curtis remarks, in a short introduction to the paper, 

 " The collection was formed along the coast from St Paul's in Brazil to Valpa- 

 raiso. The splendid objects of natural history that have been found from time 

 to time in Brazil, and sent to Europe, render it less easy to detect novelties in 

 that country, but those from the opposite coast of Chili are less known, and I 

 have never seen any collection from the extreme south of the New World ex- 

 cepting the present one. It is curious and interesting to trace the similarity 

 that exists in many instances between the corresponding parallels of the southern 

 and northern hemispheres, and in others to observe the analogues which take 

 the place of absent types. Throughout the whole of South America, for ex- 

 ample, the genus Carabus appears to be unknown, excepting about lat. 50°, 

 where a species of that group, with a narrow thorax, has been found. The 

 genus Culex also occurs, and many others might be noticed that not only approach, 

 but are identical with the typical forms of North America and of Europe." The 

 paper is devoted to the Hymenoptera by A. H. Haliday, Esq. and the Diptera 

 by Francis Walker, Esq. Of the former, fifty-five species are described ; of the 

 latter, seventy-eight, a great proportion of each being marked as new. The de- 

 scriptions are entirely Latin, the locality and an occasional remark noted in Eng- 

 lish, and we have only to regret the scanty proportion of observations which ac- 

 companies the specific characters XVI. Description of a new species of the 



genus Cameleon. By Mr Samuel Stuchburg, A. L. S. Cameleon cristatus. 

 — " Superciliari occipitalique carina elevata et crenulata, caudae anteriori parte 

 dorsique apophysibus elongatis cristam dorsalem constituentibus ; squamis fere 

 rotundis subsqualibus." It is from the river Gaboon in Western ^Equinoctial 

 Africa, and is illustrated by an uncoloured lithographic plate XVI I. Observa- 

 tions on the genus Hosackia and the American Loti. By George Bentham, Esq. 

 A new genus is proposed for the Uniflorous Loti, under the title Microlotus. 

 Eleven species of Hosackia are characterized, and five Microloti XVIII. Cha- 



