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ARCANA. ENTOMOLOGICA. 
Bombycidm, by Mr. Doubleday, with an outline plate engraved by 
W. Raddon, Esq., from original drawings by Abbot, and a memoir on 
the Aulacidse, and some allied Hymenoptera by Mr. Shuckard, are 
also introduced. Abstracts are also given of the Volume of Insects 
in the Cabinet Cyclopaedia; the transactions of the Entomological 
Society, the Annals of Natural History, the Canadian Naturalist, 
and of the first number of this work. A number of short commu¬ 
nications of minor importance are also introduced, as well as a few 
woodcuts; and in each of the two last numbers is given an out¬ 
line plate of various genera of Chalcididse, described in the 
Entomological Magazine. 
Investigation of the Myriapoda. — This long-neglected but 
highly curious group of Annulose animals has recently received 
much attention by Dr. Brandt of Petersburg!!, and M. Gervais of 
Paris. In our ow T n country, Mr. G. Newport has also undertaken 
their investigation, and it is with great pleasure that I mention 
that a paper by him upon the development and growth of the large 
English lulus has been selected by the Royal Society for the 
Bakerian lecture of the present year; and that an elaborate 
memoir by him on the entire group, with copious illustrations, may 
shortly be expected. 
