igQ [December, 
Complete Catalogue of described Coleoptera. — An important and veiy useful 
work is about to appear in Baron von Harold's " Coleopterologisclie Hefte," pub- 
lished at Munich. It is a complete Catalogue of all described species of Coleoptera, 
on which the author, in conjunction with Dr. Gemminger, has been engaged for 
the last ten years. The first instalment of the work will appear in Part. iii. of the 
" Hefte," early in the coming year, and will comprise the Cicindelidm and part of 
the CarahidoB. 
New French Entomological Magazine. — Mr. James Thomson, of Paris, has com- 
menced a new serial under the title of " Physis," The first part contains three 
articles, all from the pen of the editor and proprietor, viz., 1 — on a New Classifica- 
tion of Longicom Coleoptera, in which the views of Schiodte are criticised, and some 
of his amendments introduced ; 2 — a Revision of the Dorcadionidoe, giving a review 
of 35 genera and 219 species comprised in the group ; and 3 — a description of a 
new species of Chelonarium (Byrrhida^J. 
Mr. Darwin's great work. — It must be gratifying to the cultivators of Philo- 
sophical Zoology to learn that no fewer than 1,200 copies of Mr. Darwin's new 
work on " Variation under Domestication " were subscribed for at Mr. Murray's 
autumn sale the other day. The work is the first section of the magnus opus, 
" the origin of species by variation and natural selection " — the development of 
the theory, with all details of experiment and observation — of which the small 
octavo volume previously published was only a brief summary. It is well known 
that a very large proportion of Mr. Darwin's illustrations of his theory is taken 
from Entomology. 
Entomological Society of London, November 4ith, 1867. — Prof. Westwood, 
Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Bond exhibited some specimens of Lepidoptera new to Britain ; viz., Psyche 
crassiorella, Bruand ; Catoptria ravulana, Herrich-Schafier j and Coccyx vernanaj 
Mr. McLachlan exhibted a rare species of Mantispidce, Trichoscelia notha of 
Klug, from Bahia, remarkable for the strongly-dilated and flattened hinder tibiae : 
also some cases of gynandromorphism and monstrosity ; viz., an example of Limne- 
philus striola, Kolenati, in which the abdomen was female, but the rest of the 
organs combined the characters of both sexes, the right side being male and the 
left female ; and a completely gynandromorphus specimen of Dolerus madidus, 
Klug (these two insects were exhibited on behalf of their captor, Mr. B. Cooke, of 
Manchester) ; a female of Hylotoma fasciata St. Fargeau, in which the left hinder 
tibia was divided by a constriction (or joint ?) in the middle, the apical half being 
much dilated ; and a specimen of Tenthredo scalaris, Klug, with three wings on the 
right-hand side, the intermediate one with the neuration partaking of the characters 
of both anterior and posterior. 
Mr. Wood read a paper in which he endeavoured to prove that the tint of the 
pupse of the White Butterflies, and Fapilio Machaon, assimilated to that of the 
surface to which they were aSixed, thus securing protection thereby. He exhibited 
numerous pupse in support of his theory. A discussion ensued, in which Messrs. 
Weir, Butler, Stainton, and Bond took part, the latter gentleman asserting that, 
according to his experience, he could not agree with Mr. Wood's arguments. 
Mr. Hewitson communicated a paper on new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 
The Rev. Douglas Timins communicated a monograph of the genus Thais, 
accompanied by coloured figures of all the species. 
Mr. E. Saunders read " A Revision of the Australian Buprestidce described by 
the late Rev. F. W. Hope." 
