4242 Notices of New Books. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London? New Series* 

 Vol. II., Part 7. 8vo., 48 pages of letter-press, 4 plates. Price 

 Ss. 6d. London : Longman. 1854. 



The contents of this part are as under : — 



' Contributions to the Natural History of British Micro- Lepido- 

 ptera.' By J. W. Douglas, Esq. (Concluded). 



' Monograph of the Genus Cryptocerus, belonging to the Group 

 Cryptoceridae, Family Myrmicidae, Division Hymenoptera Hetero- 

 gyna.' By F. Smith, Esq. 



' A Revision of the Synonymy of the British Species of the Coleo- 

 pterous Genera Hydrochus and Ochthebius.' By G. R. Waterhouse, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



' Descriptions of some new Species of Coleoptera from China and 

 Ceylon.' By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



Of Mr. Douglas's paper we have already spoken in terms of unmin- 

 gled commendation. Mr. Smith's Monograph of Cryptocerus is a 

 paper of very high character ; and the careful manner in which the 

 species are described, the synonymes worked out, and the specimens 

 figured, do the author great credit. The number of species previ- 

 ously known was twenty ; to these Mr. Smith has added fifteen new 

 ones, making a total of thirty-five, twenty-four of which are figured. 



1 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.'' No. 72, dated 

 December, 1853 ; price 5s. : and No. 73, dated January, 1854 ; 

 price 2s. 6d. London : Taylor & Francis, Red Lion Court, 

 Fleet Street. 



The papers in No. 72 are intituled : — 



' On the British Tritons.' By John Higginbottom, F.R.S. 



4 Notes on some new or little-known Marine Animals.' By P. H. 

 Gosse, A.L.S. 



4 Descriptions of some undescribed Species of Reptiles collected by 

 Dr. Joseph Hooker in the Khassia Mountains, East Bengal and Sik- 

 kim Himalaya.' By J. E. Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., P.B.S., &c. 



' On the Mechanism of Aquatic Respiration, and on the Structure 

 of the Organs of Breathing in Invertebrate Animals.' By Thomas 

 Williams, M.D. Lond. 



