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INSECTA. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT 
By E. C. Rye. 
Assman, Aug. Palaeontologie. Beitrage zur Insekten-Fauna 
der Vo¥welt. Breslau, 1870, pp. 63, 1 pi. (Sep.-Abdr. Z. E. 
Ver. schles.).. 
After some general remarks upon fossil Insects, the author gives an account 
of the geological formations and localities in which they have hitherto been 
found. He describes, 1st, species of the tertiary (mioceue) clay from Schoss- 
nitz, Kanth, viz. {Hymcnopiera) Lcisius ohlonguSj p. 38, figs. 1 & l<z, Lon- 
chomyrmcx nigritus, p. 39, figs. 2 & 2 a, Phidologeton schossnicensisj p. 40, figs. 
3 & 3«, ( Coleoptera) Curmlionites silesiacus, p. 41, figs. 4 & 4a, Donacia letz- 
neriy p. 42, figs. 5 & 5a, Gonioctena primordidlis, p. 43, figs. 6 & 6a, spp. nn. ; 
(Orthoptera) Hodotermes heerianus, Gopp. j {Odonata) Lihellula sieboldiang and 
pannewitziana, Gopp., L. Ideseli, sp. n., p. 62, figs. 10 & 10a : 2ndly, species of 
the tertiary (oligocene) brown-coal of Naumburg, viz. (Co^.) Dicerca reticu- 
lata, p. 60 & fig., and Anthaxia huschi, p. 61 & fig., spp, nn. : all, it is need- 
less to observe, from fragments of individuals. 
Bethune, C. J. S., Saunders, William, & Reed, Edmund 
Baynes. First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of 
the province of Ontario, prepared for the Agricultural and 
Arts and Fruit-growers^ Associations of Ontario, on behalf 
of the Entomological Society of Canada. Toronto : 1871 
(pp. 65-130 of Report of the Fruit-growers' Association of 
Ontario for the year 1870) . 
Although not separately paged, this is practically a distinct work from the 
Report with which it is incorporated. It contains notices of insects of all 
orders injurious to the apple, grape, and plum, and many woodcuts, mostly 
borrowed from the ^ Canada Farmer ’ and * American Entomologist.’ 
Blanchard, Emile. Remarques sur la faune de la principaute 
Thibetaine du Mou-pin. C. R. Ixxii. pp. 807-813. 
An account of the collections of Armand David made in Thibet. In the 
notes, some presumably new species of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera are curtly^ 
diagnosed and named. 
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