4 Ins . 
XIII. INSECTA. 
is beautifully illustrated. Williston’s contribution to the West 
Indian fauna (1250) is really more valuable, because it deals with one of 
the most neglected of the orders of Insects. The numerous interesting 
forms described by Dr. Heller in his paper on Celebes Coleoptera (485), 
lead us to suppose that the importance of the Coleopterous fauna of this 
island has not been sufficiently recognized. M. Peringuey’s volume on 
the Carabulce of S. Africa (861) is amongst the most important of the 
faunistic works of the year ; it includes 899 species, of which 341 are 
new. Reitter (940) has thought it desirable to provide nearly 60 
named subgenera or genera for the genus Carabus in addition to those 
that already existed. One of the best of local lists of British Lepido- 
ptera has been given us by Richardson (973). 
M. Pieper’s paper on mimicry (903) will, we hope, receive the atten- 
tion it deserves on account of its philosophical tone, and the fact that 
the author is actually acquainted with, and has for long been an observer 
of, the phenomena thoorisod on. Green’s work on tho Ooocidto of 
Ceylon promises to be one of the most extensive and useful of the works 
on this family, the literature of which is exceptionally fragmentary. 
The union of Berlese’s papers into a separate volume, greatly facilitates 
access to this valuable store of information (70). Scudder’s revision 
of American fossil Blattidce (1053), besides introducing us to a consider- 
able number of new forms, discusses several points of considerable 
general interest. 
In the expectation that it may be of interest to entomologists and 
others we give the numbers of new species and of new genera and sub- 
genera of Insects recorded in the following pages : — 
Coleoptera 
New 
Species. 
. 3833 .... 
New Genera 
Subgenera 
392 
llym enoptera — 
Acaleata 
.. 541 .... 
19 
Parasitica , incl 
Chrysididce 
!. 670 ... 
47 
Sessiliventres 
.. 177 ... 
10 
Lepidoptera — 
Rhopalocera 
.. 258 ... 
38 
Ileterocera 
.. 1726 ... 
327 
Diptera 
.. 700 ... 
66 
Rhynchota 
.. 403 ... 
45 
Neuroptera , s.l 
Thysanoptera 
.. 161 ... 
9 
4 ... 
0 
A ptera 
68 ... 
3 
Orthoptera 
.. 366 ... 
84 
Totals 
. 8907 
1040 
TITLES* 
1. Abeille, E. de Perrin. Notes sur les Buprestides palearctiques. 
Rev. Ent. franc, xv, pp. 269-283. [ Coleoptera .] 
2. . Etude sur les especes du genre Dimisa , Saulcy. Miscell. ent, 
iv, pp. 129-131. [ Coleoptera .] 
3. — . Notes sur certains Longitarsus , suivies de la description de 
deux especes nouvelles d’ tlalticides. Bull. Soc. ent. France, 1896. 
pp. 52-54. [ Coleoptera .] 
* An asterisk prefixed to a quotation indicates that the Recorder has not seen 
the Journal or Work referred to. 
