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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, Hyp.sipetes Ga- 
neesa, Brachypus eulilotus, 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 Linncean Society of London, Vol. xvii. Part 
the Third. 4to. London, 1836. 
A continuation of the volume and commencing with XV. Descriptions 
-c. 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 subaequalibus." 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 Mi'crofoft'.- XVIII. Cha- 
