ARCANA ENTOMOLOGICA. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS, &c. 
( No. II. ) 
Societe EntoSiologique de France. —English entomologists will, 
I am sure, be as much gratified as myself in learning that the 
Entomological Society of France, whose proceedings were for a time 
suspended owing to the too great expense incurred in the publica¬ 
tion of its transactions as w T ell as to dissensions amongst some of 
its leading members—and, which led to the idea in this country that 
the society was in fact broken up—has again resumed its former 
vigour, and that its “Annales” are not only being again published 
quarterly, but that the parts which had been delayed have, owing 
to the generous assistance offered to the society by several of the 
members, also been published. The usefulness of the society has 
been so long acknowledged, that it now behoves English members 
who had delayed paying their u cotisations n to do so without 
further delay; as the society, in consequence of the deficiency 
caused by the delay in these payments during the last year or two, 
has not yet entirely disburdened itself of its engagement to the 
publishers of its u Annales.” In the part of the fit Annales" 
recently published, may be mentioned the continuation of Solier’s 
memoir on the Heteromera, and descriptions of numerous new and 
interesting species of different orders; particularly very long and 
elaborate articles, by the Marquis Spinola, upon the Hymenoptera 
of Egypt and Cayenne, and upon the family Fulgoridse. These 
parts also present to us a far greater number of memoirs upon the 
economy and habits of various insects than are to be found in the 
earlier volumes. 
Popular information relative to the habits of insects obnoxious 
to vegetable productions.— The reproach which has so often been 
made against the entomologist, that his attention is not sufficiently 
devoted to the investigation of obnoxious insects, and to the dis¬ 
covery of beneficial remedies for destroying them or preventing 
their attacks, has now lost much of its weight. In Germany, works 
expressly addressed to the horticulturist, agriculturist, and arbori¬ 
culturist, have long been numerous and valuable ; the greater number 
however being devoted to forest insects, as the great extent and 
value of the German forests necessarily induce a greater degree of 
