270 
INSECTA. 
On the arrangement, &c., of insects in public museums; C. K. Ent. 
Belg. xviii, pp. v.-xi. & xxiii. 
Geoffrey’s collection ; Pet. Nouv. (1876) p. 488 ; Perris’s, 1. c. p. 652. 
French Provincial Entomological Societies ; Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 476. 
Nomenclature. Common use in preference to priority again urged by 
W. A. Lewis, Tr. E. Soc. 1875 (pt. i, appendix, pp. i.-xlii.). A. Puton, 
Pet. Nouv. (1875) pp. 480 & 484 ; O. M. Reuter, 1. c. p. 601 ; E. L. Ra- 
gonot, 1. c. p. 607. 
On cycles of entomological studies ; J. W. Douglas, Ent. M. M. xii. 
p. 89. 
On entomologists’ diaries for captures ; Kriechbaumer, Ent. Nachr. i. 
p. 88 (from C. B. Ver. Regensb.) ; cf. also p. 106. 
Jacob Sturm’s “ Insecten-Cabinet ” analysed; G. Kraatz, Deutsche 
E. Z. 1875, pp. 167-160. 
The necessity of plates being added in all descriptive works advocated 
by A. Salle, Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 612. 
Catalogue of the entomological literature of the Lower Elbe district ; 
J. D. E. Schmeltz, Verb. Ver. Hamb. 1871-1874 [1875], pp. 118 & 119. 
Cf, also p. 121. 
Notes on entomological subjects discussed at the 13th meeting of the 
‘ Soci^t(5s savantes des Departements,’ held at the Sorbonne in the spring 
of 1875, by M. Girard, Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 488. 
W. de Fonvielle’s Rapport sur I’lnsectologie g^ndrale,” Paris; 1874, 
8vo, has not been seen by the Recorder. 
\ A new publication, ^‘Bulletin d’Insectologie Agricole, Journal Men- 
seul de la Society Centrale d’ Agriculture et d’lusectologie, Entomologie 
appliquee,” has been commenced by M. Girard (Paris: 1875, 8vo), con- 
taining papers on elementary Entomology by H. de la Blanchere ; In- 
sects attaching the vine, by P. C. Joubert ; Insect bibliography ; Cossus, 
by G. Robert ; hunting injurious insects, by A. PiJlain ; and miscel- 
laneous entoiiiological notes. Cf. Girard, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. 
p. clxxviii. 
The “ Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,” from 1875 inclusive, is to 
be known as the “ Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift,” and, instead of 
the usual four parts, two only will be regularly issued per annum. No 
separate supplements will be published as occasionally heretofore ; but 
these will fropi time to time be reckoned as further parts of the year’s 
issue. Parts 1 & 2 were accordingly issued in January and December, 1875 ; 
part 3, March, 1875, consisted of two works by E. Reitter, on European 
Nitidulidee and Cryptophagidee ; part 4, April, 1875, of a monograph of 
TrogositUy &c., by Reitter, simultaneously published as Verb. Ver. Briinn, 
xiii. pp. 3-44, 53-79 ; part 5, May, 1875, of a monograph of Eurychorides 
{Adelostomides^ Lac.) by Haag-Rutenberg, also appearing in Verb. Ver. 
Rheinl., 1875, pp. 359-428 ; part 6, January, 1876, of a Catalogue of the 
beetles of Thuringia, by A. Kellner, also published as JB. Ac. Erf. (n.f.), 
viii. ; part 7, of further papers on TenehiHonidm^ by Haag, 1875 ; and part 
8, of Katter’s Entomologische Nachrichten for 1876. No other parts 
are definitely numbered, but the entomological “ Bericht ” from Arch, 
f. Nat. [when published], and Harold’s Coleoptcrologischo Hefto, are 
