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new by Mr. F. Smith. Cbrysis ornatus (App. cxxv.), Ceratophorus 

 anthracinus and Crabro interstinctus (App. cxxvi.), and Nomada mis- 

 tura (App. cxxvii.) ; and the same talented Hymenopterologist has 

 detected the Bombus arcticus of Dahlbom among some bees taken in 

 August last, by Mr. Adam White, at Lerwick, in Shetland (Zool.3268) : 

 and Mr. Stephens has found, in his own garden at Brixton, specimens 

 of Selandria sericea of Hartig (Zool. 3163), previously unrecorded as 

 British. 



In British Coleoptera, seven additions have been made. Aepus 

 Robinii (Zool. 3090), taken by Mr. Wollaston on the Chesil Bank ; 

 Trachoides hispidus (Zool. 3102), by Mr. J. Walker, in the New Fo- 

 rest ; Acalyptus Carpini, beaten off sallow-blossoms at Fenny Strat- 

 ford, and Mecinus collaris, found at the roots and on the lower stems 

 of Plantago maritima near Gravesend ; both by Mr. S. Stevens (Zool. 

 3186) ; Bembidium Schuppelii of Dejean (Zool. 3289), found on the 

 banks of the river Irthing, in Cumberland, by Mr. T. J. Bold ; Ta- 

 chypus pallidipennis, misnamed Peryphus maritimus (Zool. 3186), by 

 Mr. John Scott; and Dircaea discolor (Zool. 3309), by Mr. S. Stevens. 



In Radiata we have a single species, Actinia clavata, described by 

 Ms. W. Thompson (App. cxxvii.) ; and a paper of great value and 

 scientific interest has been read by Mr. Bowerbank, before the Micro- 

 scopical Society, on the ciliary action of sponges, (Zool. 3008). 



In exotic Lepidoptera the following species are described as new to 

 science : — Arctia Horsfieldii and Eudioptes Indica (Zool. 3070) by 

 Mr. W. Wilson Saunders; both of them natives of Java, and injurious 

 to the cotton-plant : Thaumantias Howqua, from China, and Drusilla 

 Mylsecha from the Indian Archipelago (Zool. 3096), by Mr .Westwood. 



Many months have elapsed since a statement was made at one of 

 the meetings of the Entomological Society, of a discovery made by 

 Mr. J. C. Bowring at Hong Kong. This gentleman, who appears to 

 have directed the energies of a very observant mind to the study of 

 Entomology, detected on a specimen of the common Chinese Fulgora, 



