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Remarks concerning insects are to be found in Ratzeburg’s Forstwis- 
senschaftliche Reisen durch verschiedene Gegenden Deutschlands, Berlin, 
1842, in Brehm’s Ausfliige nach Brinnis (Isis, p. 409, 488, 566, 647, 752), 
and Kiister’s Reiseberichten aus Dalmatien und Montenegro (Isis, p. 283, 
609, 743, 847). 
The twenty-second number has appeared of Germar’s Fauna Insecto- 
rum Europae. 
Souvenirs d’un Voyage dans I’lnde ex. de 1834-39, par Adolphe 
Delessert, Paris, 1843, ii. vol. 8, 35 pL, is of importance for a know- 
ledge of Indian insects, which I here defer mentioning, as the portions 
on mammalia and birds have already been taken up in this year’s report. 
The entomological portion has been executed by Guerin. The new 
species have been in part briefly characterized already in the Rev. Zool., 
but they are here more minutely described, and some beautifully 
figured. In general, what has been said of the insects of the high 
lands of the Nilgherries, is particularly worthy of attention (T. ii. p. 3). 
The type of the European is here mingled with the Indian Fauna. 
The greater number of the species belong to European genera, and there 
are also found several indigenous to Europe, as Coccinella ^-punctata, 
Vanessa Cardui, Polyommatus hceticus ; whilst, on the declivity of the 
mountains, we meet with pure Indian forms, Ornithoptera Heliacon, 
Bternocera chrysis, Fulgora Delessertii, Macronota jiavo-maculata, 
Mylahris Sidce, &c. 
In the zoological numbers of the “ Verhandl. over de Natuurl. Ges- 
chiedenes der Nederlandsche Bezittingen,” a larger treatise by De Haan 
has appeared, which treats of the Orthopterous Fauna of Netherland- 
India, and will be mentioned afterwards. 
The great number of insects collected by Cuming on the Philippine 
Islands, of which a complete series of species has been deposited in the 
British Museum in London, might well call forth a more extensive work, 
which would give a profound view of the peculiar relations of the fauna 
of this important group of the Indian world. These very important 
materials have only been partially examined, in diiferent periodicals. 
During this year, for example, the Cerambycidoe have been described 
by Newman, some Curculionidoi by Waterhouse, and some Bugs by 
Ad. White. 
The reporter has given a contribution to the Entomology of Van 
Diemen’s Land in these Archives (8 Jahrg. 1 Bd. p. 83). 
“ A report on the Insects of Massachusetts injurious to vegetation, 
published agreeably to an order of the legislature, by the Commissioner 
on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State, Cambridge, 1841, 
8vo,” is a very learned work on the Natural History of the Insects of 
North America. The author, Th. W. Harris, is one of the most distin- 
guished entomologists of that country, and has executed his task with 
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