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timber ; Pogonocherus ovalis, on the sallows, after they 

 began to lose their catkins in May ; Lebia hoemorrhoidalis, on 

 the catkins of the sallows, a single specimen on those of the 

 birch, and another on fern ; Choroebus Rubi, and other 

 Buprestidee, on the catkins of the birch ; Lamia tristis, 

 Helops sulphureus, Bembidium paludosum, and a great 

 number of Curculionida?, Hydrophilidse, and of the genera 

 Agabus and Cryptocephalus. 



M. VAhbe Feiiig. — M. I'Abbe Fettig, an entomologist, who, 

 during the early part of the occupation of Alsace by the 

 Prussians, had been imprisoned at Strasbourg, has been 

 released. His collections have received no injury. 



Phlcedes ohcordata. — In a collection of insects, made in 

 the east of Siberia, Mr. Pascoe has detected a specimen 

 of the genus Phlcedes, closely allied to, if not identical with, 

 the P. obcordata of Kirby (Nosoderma obcordata), a species 

 hitherto supposed to be confined to the United States. This 

 extension of the geographical range of the genus is very 

 interesting. 



New Books. — The 14th fasciculus of Mulsant's * Opuscula 

 Entomologica' is just published. The 3rd volume of the 

 * Natural History of the Hemiptera of France' will be ready 

 in a few days, and will contain four tribes. M. Mulsant has 

 published the new edition of his * History of the Lamel- 

 licorns of France,' as well as the 1st part of the ' Staphylinidae.' 

 A new edition of the ' Iconography and Natural History of 

 Larvae of Lepidoptera,' by MM. Duponchel and Guenee, is 

 about to be issued : the work gives descriptions and figures 

 of a great number of the larvae of European Lepidoptera, of 

 course including English species ; these figures are contained 

 in ninety-three plates, excellently coloured : the work is 

 published in forty fasciculi, at 1 franc each. Of the 

 Iconography and Description of unpublished Lepidoptera 

 of Europe, by P. Milliere, twenty-five fasciculi have 

 been published, and these contain more than a thousand 

 descriptions of larvae, pupae and perfect insects, with the 

 plants on which the larvae feed, and other details of their 

 life-history : the work is worthy the support of all lovers 

 of the Science; nothing can exceed the delicacy and finish 

 of the figures : we regret, however, to observe, a sad confusion 

 of names in the instance of Cidaria russata and immanata ; 



