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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Gerstackeb (Archiy fur Naturgesch. xxxv.) describes the following new 
species from Zanzibar and vicinity : — 
Tryxalis sulphuripennisj 1. c. p. 216 j Opomala hrachyptera, 1. c. p. 216 j 
Pceciloeera cegrota and P. atriceps, 1. c.; Petasia hecate^ 1. c. p. 217 j Sphenarmm 
pulchripes and Chrysochram dasycnemis, 1. c. j C. semicarmatuSf 1. c. p. 218 ; 
Churoetypus hippkcus and Pamphayus airoxy 1. c.\ Acridium deckeniy 1. c.- 
p. 219j| Catantops decuratuSy 1. c. j Hymenotes humilisy I, c. p, 220 j Tettix 
cmdylopsy 1. c. p. 221. 
RHYNCHOTA 
By W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. 
A. Work in progress. 
Walker, Francis. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera 
Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. 
Part III. London, 1868. 
In this third part of his catalogue. Walker gives the list of 
the described species of the subfamilies Edessidae, Phyllocepha- 
lidae, and Megymenidae, with indications of the localities from 
which the British Museum possesses specimens. Many new 
species are described. Nearly half the volume consists of an 
appendix containing indications of recently described species, 
descriptions of new forms, and further information connected 
with the subfamilies treated of in the first two parts of the 
catalogue. 
B. Papers published in Journals ^c. 
Derbes, — . Observations sur les Aphidiens qui font les Galles 
des Pistachiers. Annales Sci. Nat, ser. 5, tome xi. pp. 93- 
107, plates 3 & 4. 
Douglas, J. W., and Scott, J. British Hemiptera : additions 
and corrections. Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. v. pp. 259-268 
& 293-297. 
Fibber, F. X. Synopse der europaischen Deltocephali. Ver- 
handl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. in Wien, Band xix. pp. 201-222, 
Taf. 5 & 6. 
An analytical synopsis of the European species of the genera 
Platymetopius and Deltocephalus. 
Garbiglietti, Antonio. Catalogus methodicus et synony- 
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Italise indigenorum. Accedit descriptio aliquot specierum 
vel minus vel nondum cognitarum. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 
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