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INSECTA 
BY 
W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., M.E.S. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
A. Works in progress. 
Costa, A. Annuario del Museo Zoologico, della R. Univ. di 
Napoiit Anno ii. 1862. Naples, 1864, with four plates. 
The first part of this volume contains a long list of accessions 
to the Zoological Museum of the University of Naples during the 
year 1862, including a vast quantity of insects of various orders, 
many of which are briefly characterized as new in footnotes. 
This is followed by a series of articles containing — I. New 
genera and species of insects of the Italian fauna j II. Descrip- 
tions of some insects foreign to Europe ; with similar but 
shorter notices of Crustacea and Mollusca. 
Fitch, Asa. Eighth and Ninth Reports on the noxious and 
other Insects of the State of New York. pp. 175-226 of 
the second volume of Reports. New York, 1864 and 1865. 
These continuations of the valuable reports of Fitch upon the 
Insects of New York are devoted to some of those infesting 
gardens, and include notices of Crioceris asparagi, 6 species of 
Smrjnthurus y new species of Orgyia and MacrodactyluSj Sphinx 
quinquemaculata, Doryphora Vd~lineata, Arctia caja, Agrotis 
nigricanSy and Trupanea apivora (sp. n.),the last as injurious to 
Bees. The parasites of several of the species are also described, 
and the eighth report contains a notice on the first appearance 
of the Hessian fly in America. 
L’Abeille. Memoires d^Entomologie, par S. A. de Marseul, 
avec la collaboration de plusieurs membres distingu^s de la 
Societe Entomologique de France. Tome i. livr. 5, 6, and 
tome ii. livr. 1-6. 12mo. 
The continuation of this periodical work consists exclusively 
of coleopterological papers, and includes descriptions of the 
Histerida of the Malay archipelago by the editor, a monograph 
