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of the Gallerucides (sens, str.) by M. de Joannis^ and r mono- 
graph of the Buprestidce by the editor. The two iR^t-mentioned 
works, which are still incomplete, belong to the second volume; 
but as they constitute a sort of parallel publication, being paged 
separately, there is some difficulty in determining how they 
should be quoted, as the monograph of Buprestidce^ the last to be 
commenced, is only distinguished from its associated memoir by 
having A. II. at the left-hand corner of the first page of each 
sheet. It would seem, however, from a notice on the wrapper of 
livr. 6, that the editor intends these portions to form the second 
and third volumes of his work ; and as he leaves us in the dark 
as to the precise mode in which this is to be effected, the only 
course is to regard the Gallerucides as forming part of the 
second volume and the Buprestidce as occupying the third. The 
concluding portion of the first volume includes a notice of the 
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, n. s. 
vol. i., and some descriptions of new Beetles by Dr. Clepaens 
Hanijje from the Wienfer entom. Monatsschr. for 1861. The 
first part of vol. ii. includes descriptions of new Coleoptera 
published by L. Miller in the same journal. 
B. Separaie Work, 
Taschenberg, E, L. Naturgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere, die 
in Deutschland sowie in den Provinzen Preussen iind Posen 
den Eeld-, Wiesen- und Weide-Oulturpflanzen schadlich 
werden. Leipzig, 1865, 8vo, pp. xii & 288, with 7 plates. 
In this Workj which received the first prize of the Royal 
Prussian College of Agricultural Economy, the author has de- 
scribed the species of invertebrate animals which are injurious to 
agriculture in Germany, including the proyinces of Prussia and 
Poseni The great majority of these are insects, the injurious 
species of which are well described in a popular systematic form, 
which will enable people of moderate intelligence easily to de-* 
termine the nature of any insect whose action upon their crops 
is injurious. Under each species there is an account of its 
general habits and of the means to be adopted for its destruc- 
tion ; the parasitic and pther natural enemies of many of the 
species are* also noticed. This descriptive portion of the work is 
illustrated with seven coloured plates, most of the figures on 
which, though rather rough, are recognizable. A second sec- 
tion contains a list of the principal cultivated plants, with ana- 
lytical tables of their insect enemies, so as to enable the agri- 
culturist to ascertain, from a purely practical point of view, the 
nature of the influence under which his crops are suffering. 
This section of the work will be particularly useful. The work 
concludes with a list of the more important works referred to in 
