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gical exploration recorded, including 2 new species of Coleoptera, 2 of 
Lepidoptera, and 1 of Hemiptera ; E. Ragusa, Bull. Ent. Ital. vii. pp. 
238-256. 
Caucasus. Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in various localities near Der- 
bend; A. Becker, Bull. Mosc. xlix. pt. 1, pp. 137 & 138. 
St. Helena. The insect fauna specifically discussed in J. C. Melliss’s 
“ St. Helena : a physical, historical, and topographical description of the 
Island, including its Fauna, Flora, and Geology ”, London : 1875, cr. 
8vo, pp. 129-200, pi. xxiii. 96 species of Coleoptera (quoting Wollaston), 
24 Orthoptera (Walker), 5 Neuroptera, 13 Hymenoptera^ of which 8 are 
indigenous (Walker), and 43 Lepidoptera^ of which 20 are new (Walker), 
are briefly described. All these have been already recorded. Further 
notes, briefly describing new forms, and emphasizing the prevalence of 
a few forms of Coleoptera (especially Cossonides) from which it is toler- 
ably certain that the list in Melliss’s work is far from exhaustive ; T. V. 
Wollaston, Ent. M. M. xii. p. 156. 
Kerguelen’s Island. Notes on the Entomology, by A. E. Eaton, P. R. 
Soc. xxiii. pp. 364 & 355, Ent. M. M. xii. pp. 1 & 2, 58-61. Most of the 
species observed were degraded and incapable of flight. Cf. 0. O. Water- 
house, Ent. M. M. xii. p. 54. 
North America. Results of an entomological excursion to St. Hya- 
cinthe ; Nat. Canad. vii. pp. 205 & 232 et seq. ' • * 
Report of the Entomological Society of the Province of Ontario for 
1874. Toronto : 1876, 8vo, pp. 62. 
“ The injurious insects of Michigan,” by A. J. Cook, 1875, 8vo, pp. 
1-48, woodcuts, according to a notice in Canad. Ent. vii. p. 200, is of the 
usual practical American nature. 
C. J. S. Bethune continues his compilation of th6 insects of the 
northern parts of British America, from Kirby’s Fauna Boreali- Ameri- 
cana ; Canad. Ent. vii. p. 109 et seq. 
The present distribution of certain insects in N. America may have 
been brought about by phenomena attendant on the glacial period. A. 
R. Grote, Am. J. Sci. (3) x. pp. 335-338. 
Collection and preservation (of Articulata generally). Directions by 
A. Gerstacker in G. Neumayer’s “Anleitung zu wissenschaftlichen Beo- 
bachtungen auf Reisen”, Berlin : 1875, 8vo, pp. 443-460. 
On preparation of Orthoptera^ Neuroptera^ and Hemiptera ; F. Rudow, 
Ent. Nachr. i. pp. 80-83. 
Insect-mounting in hot climates. The treatment of minute species 
with spirits of wine and Canada balsam diseased ; S. Green, J. Quek. 
Club, 1875, p. 29. 
Preserving specimens. Empty the abdomen and wash with arsenicated 
solution; A. Malm, Feuil. Nat. v. p. 38. On preservatives generally, 
various short notices in Ent. Nachr. i. 
Cyanide of potassium. Improved method of using this killing agent ; 
Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 467. For destroying Acari in collections; 1. c. 
p. 517. 
