THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Sclielling. List of species collected by H. J. Veth ; Tijdsclir. Ent. xxii. 
(Verslag), pp. xciii.-xcviii. 
Belgium. Species new or rare to the fauna ; OR. Ent. Belg. xxi. 
p. cclxxix. et seq. 
Dunes of Normandy ; M. Girard, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. 241. 
Rhine district. Interesting forms noticed by P. Bertkau ; CB. Ver. 
Rheinl. 1877, p. 117. 
Mecklenburg. Additions to the insect-fauna; F. Rudow, Arch. Ver. 
Mecklenb. xxxi. [1877] pp. 113-119 [Hymenojptera^ Hemiptera, Neuro- 
ptera\. 
Egerlande. The commencement of a list of the Insect fauna ; K. W. 
von Dalla Torre, Lotos, xxvii. [1877], p. 91 et seq. 
Austro-Hnngary. The periods of appearance of Coleoptera and Hy- 
menoptera given by Fritsch in continuation of his work on this subject ; 
Denk. Ak. Wien, xxxvii. p. 1 et seq.^ xxxviii. pp. 97-166, 6 pis. 
Spain. V. L. Seoane, “Notas para la Fauna Galleca ” (Ferrol : 1878, 
pp. 1-16) describes various new and little known insects. 
Krasnovodsk and Derbend. List of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera col- 
lected in June ; A. Becker, Bull. Mosc. liii. (1) pp. 123-126. 
Amur. The insects observed on the road to and from Moscow men- 
tioned in letters by H. Christoph, S. E. Z. xxxix. pp. 201-219, 401-410. 
Java. Mention of insects from Sindang-laeeja ; C. 0. Waterhouse, 
J. L. S. xiv. p. 134. 
Africa. Oriental affinities in the Ethiopian Insect-fauna pointed out, 
especially in Hemiptera-Heteroptera; W. L. Distant, Nature, xvii. p. 282. 
C. J. S. Bethune, Canad. Ent. x. pp. 116, 137, 213, et seqq.., continues 
his compilation of “Insects of the Northern Parts of British America’* 
(from Kirby’s “Fauna Boreali-Americana ”), discussing the Ilymeno- 
ptera and Hemiptera. 
United States. Characteristics of the central zoo-geographical pro- 
vince noted by A. S. Packard, Jun., Am. Nat. xii. p. 512. 
Insects imported from Europe ; H. A. Hagen, Psyche, ii. p. 191. 
Illinois. Cyrus Thomas’s “ Sixth Report of the State Entomologist on 
the noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois. The first 
biennial Report” (Springfield, 111.: 1877), is of the usual practical and 
local nature, from the notice in Psyche, ii. p. 165. The second part con- 
tains the commencement of a proposed Manual of economic Entomology, 
describing the beneficial and injurious Coleoptera. 
Chilian and New Zealand faunae. E. Birchall, Nature, xvii. p. 221, 
notices European genera of Heterocera occurring in New Zealand and 
Chili. 
On means of destroying Acari in collections (benzine preferred) ; C. 
Royer, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 218. A coating of mercury for the sides of the 
boxes or drawers is still better, and does not evaporate ; V. Pyot, tom. cit. 
p. 227. Recapitulation of various methods, and the preference given to 
creosote ; Lafaury, tom. cit. p. 245. Mercury no use ; De la Perraudiere, 
tom. cit. p. 262. Percussion to displace parasitic larvae ; Xambeu, tom cit. 
p. 271. 
