184 Hull ctin de la Societe Imperial 



Bulletin de la Societe des Imperial Nataralistes de Moscow. Tom. 

 ix. Accompagne de ix. Planches. Moscow, 1836. Hvo. 



Art. 1. The first 115 pages of this volume, of which we need men- 

 tion only the principal articles, are occupied with a paper by Dr. Besser, 

 entitled " Supplementum ad Synopsin Absynthiorum, tentamen de 

 Abrotanis, dissertationem de Seriphidiis atque de Dranunculis," designed 

 to convey additional information on these subjects, which had previous- 

 ly been treated more at length by the same author. 2. Ueber die 



erste ursache der unebenheit der festen erdoberflseche. 3. Helices 



proprie dictae hucusque in limitibus Imperii Russici observatae, a Jo- 

 anne Krynicki. This individual appears to have examined the terres- 

 trial mollusca of Russia with great care, and this communication forms 

 a sequel to others already published by him on the same subject. No 

 fewer than forty-one species are described in this paper very minutely, 

 with their synonyms given at length, and several new species are intro- 

 duced. In the genus Helicogena (Fer.) it is interesting to remark the oc- 

 currence of a species well known in more southern regious viz, H. poma- 

 tia, which has been found in the wooded and shady districts of Volhynia 

 and Poltava, but it must be accounted very rare. Similar observations ap- 

 ply to H. nemoralis, which is likewise classed among the rarer kinds. H. 

 horteiisis and H. arbustorum, well known species in this country, have 

 special localities assigned to them, a proof that they are by no means 

 generally distributed ; the former has been formed in Volhynia, the 



latter in Podolia. 4. Uber Irit und Osmit, zuei neue mineralien ; von 



R. Hermann. Discovery of two new minerals, named Iridium and 

 Osmium, among the sandy residuum left after the extraction of platina. 



5. LibeUululinarum species novae, quas inter Wolgam fluvium et 



montes Uralenses observavit, Dr. Edward Eversmann. This notice com- 

 prises descriptions of four new species of Libellula, two of iEshna and two 



of Agrion. 6. Lettre de M. le Conseiller d'Etat et chevalier de Geb- 



ler, contenant un rapport d'un voyage dans les hautes montagnes Ca- 

 touniennes jusqu a la frontiere de la Chine, et description des trois nou- 

 velles especes de coleopteres. The insects described (and figured) are 

 Heliophilus hypolithus, Clytus Altiacus and Chrysomela Kowalewskii, the 

 latter an elegant species of a rich golden green, with blue ridges on the 



elytra. 7. Orthoptera duo e montibus catunicis, descripta et icone 



illustrata, auctore G. Fischer de Waldeim. These insects, which do 

 not seem very dissimilar to other species of Grillidoe already described, 



are named CEdipa Gebleri and CE. rhodoptera. 8. Bereicherung zur 



kafer-kunde des Russischen reiches, Von F. Faldermann. A paper 

 containing descriptions (illustrated by figures) of a considerable number 



of a new coleopterous insects. 9. Quelques mots sur le Caucase par 



Jean Kaleniczenkow. The writer was induced to visit the district of 

 the Caucasus by observing that every naturalist who had visited it from 



