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by Saunders j and the plum, pp. 22-26, the potato, pp. 65-81, and the cu- 
cumber &c., pp. 89-92, by Reed. The species usually attacking these plants 
in America are discussed in a practical manner j but no original observations 
worth recording appear to be contained in the work, which is copiously illus- 
trated by the usual (borrowed) woodcuts. 
‘‘Troudy [?= Travaux; =‘Les Annales russes de la Soci^td' ; vols. v. & 
vi. and livr. i. of vol. vii. had been published in 1872] de la Soci^t^ entomo- 
logique de Russio, a St. P<itersbourg, vol. iv. 1867-69.” In llor. Ent. Ross, 
viii. Rev. Bibliogr. p. vii, is a notice of the above publication, originally 
printed in Russian. It contains the following articles ; — A general descrip- 
tion of the larvae of Coleoptera, by C. de Gernet. A paper on the geogra- 
phical distribution of species of Coleoptera peculiar to the north of Russia, 
by T. Koppen. Description and figs, of Cecidomyia hrachyptera, with notes 
on its ravages in pine forests, by Gernet. General considerations on the re- 
lations of insects and man, by the same author. Descriptions and figs, of 
new varieties of Melitcea maturna^ Argynnis arsUache, Hadena amicuy and 
Cidaria dilutata, from St. Petersburg. Instructions for ‘^sugaring,” by A. 
Iliiber. Notes on Lepidoptera found at a locality north of St. Petersburg, 
by Feild. A complete catalogue of Russian Lepidopteray by N. Erschoff & 
Feild, of geographical importance. Instructions for collecting, by Solsky. 
A catalogue of Eversmann’s Lepidoptei'a, The ^ Bulletin ’ for 1866 and 1867 
contains short communications on the larvae of TelephoruSy which appear in 
winter on the snow. 
LiNNiEus. C. A. Dohrn, S. E. Z. xxxiii. pp. 446-462, continues his bio- 
graphical notes : 1738-1763. 
Rambur : Bibliographical notice by Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. 
pp. 307-312. . . 
Brulle : a list of his entomological works by Desmarest, ibid. p. 613. 
Wesmael. Sauveur (Ann. Ent. Belg. xv. pp. 213-233) publishes some 
posthumpus reports of this author of interest for the Belgian fauna. 
COLEOPTERA 
By E. C. Rye. 
Abeille de Perrin, Elzear. Etudes sur les Coleopteres caver- 
nicolcs, suivies de la Description de 27 Coleopteres nou- 
veaux fran 9 ais. Marseille : April, 1872, 8vo, pp. 41. 
The new species are described by Abeille, Saulcy, and Pandell^. Pp. 6- 
12 contain notes on the cave insects of Ari4ge, being an account of expedi- 
tions to the caverns, with observations on the species j pp. 13-17, descrip- 
tions of new species ; pp. 17-23, a synopsis of Pyrenean AdelopSy including 
spp. nn. j pp. 24-26, a table of French spp. of AnophthahnuSy pp. 27-41, de- 
scriptions of new French CoUoptera. The contents of pp. 1-26 are analyzed 
and the diagnoses of the new species reproduced in Bull. (2, reporting sitting 
of 13 March) Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ii. pp. xviii-xxii, where that portion is 
