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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE, 
INSECTA. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT 
By E. C. Rye. 
A. Works in progress. 
Bullettino della SocietI Entomologica Italiana. Anno 
primo. Ease, i.-iv. 1869. Florence. 
The Italian Entomological Society has appointed a provi- 
sional Committee, consisting of A. Targioni-Tozzetti, A. H. 
Haliday (since dead), P. Stefanelli, and F. Piccioli, under whose 
direction a volume, consisting of four parts, has been published 
for 1869, containing 344 pages and six plates, of which two are 
coloured. The main object of this volume appears naturally to 
be the elucidation of Italian Entomology, catalogues of Coleo- 
ptera, Rhynchota, Lepidoptera, and other minor divisions being 
commenced in it ; but there are (besides descriptions of new 
species of various orders) some highly interesting anatomical 
papers. Each fasciculus contains biographical notes, and notices 
of descriptive and applied entomology. 
Petites nouvelles Entomologiques. Paris. 
This little publication, commenced on the 1st July, 1869, and 
thence issued every fortnight, under the editorship of E. Dey- 
rolle, fils, appears to have been originally intended as a medium 
for facilitating the exchange of specimens, and for diffusing 
news on entomological subjects that would be uninteresting 
unless immediately printed. But by degrees it has been made a 
vehicle for the descriptions, or rather of hurried and abbreviated 
sketches of descriptions, of new species, to which names are 
attached, with the avowed object of snatching priority, — at the 
expense of precision and dignity [cf. Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeit. 
13, vi.). Some of these ebauches, if held to be sufficient, will, 
although the species to which they are meant to refer may be 
subsequently described in the ^ Annalcs,^ necessitate the quo- 
tation of the ‘ Petites nouvelles ^ as their original record. 
