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NOTICES OF SERIALS. 
incognita. (Thomas Boyd) What is indigenous ? Proceedings of Societies.— 
Linnean Society, March 4-18, April 1, 1856; Entomological Society, March 3, 
April 6, 1856. Notices of New Books.—Annals and Magazine of Natural His¬ 
tory; Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science; Journal of the Proceedings 
of the Linnean Society; Natural History Beview. (W. S. M. D’Urban) Pis¬ 
civorous propensity of the Water Campagnol. (James Hardy) Occurrence of 
the Bound-headed Porpoise at Oldcambus. (W. S. M. D’Urban) Occurrence of 
the White-tailed Eagle in Devonshire. Note on the early arrival of the Sand- 
martin and Chiffchalf. (C. Buchanan) Honey Buzzard breeding in Britain. 
(H. W. Hadfield) Early arrival of the Willow Wren; Familiarity of the House 
Sparrow ; Note on the Hoopoe. (Henry Doubleday) Colour of the beak of the 
Hawfinch. (Thomas Tapping) Observations on the Genus Testacellus, and 
description of a new species. This species stands “Testacellus Medii Templi, 
Thomas Tapping such the euphonious nomenclature of this new slug—going 
back, this, to the forty word specific name of Bay. (Joshua Brown) Note on 
Atypus Sulzeri. (H. T. Stainton) The Small Spider of the Origanum. (E. C. 
Buxton) Note on Argynnis Lathonia and Pieris Daplidice. (H. Austin) Par- 
nassius Apollo at Ealing. (B. Weaver) Chrysophanus dispar in Staffordshire. 
(S. Stone) Becent Entomological Captures in the neighbourhood of Witney, 
Oxon. (E. Smith) Cloantha conspicillaris. (B. Smith) Noctua leucographa. 
(J. J. Beading) Dasycampa rubiginea. (H. J. Harding) Aleucis pictaria. (A. 
F. Sheppard) Ennomos Alniaria at Margate, Kent. (John Scott) Coleophora 
alcyonipennella; Ornix Loganella; Lithocolletis irradiella. (G. Edwards) Bom- 
bus soroensis. (Thos. John Bold) Capture of Nitidula flexuosa and of Alphito- 
bius picipes at South Shields. (A. B. Hogan) Query as to Helophorus dorsalis, 
Marsh. (J. Farr) Origin of the name Horse Cliesnut. 
No. 164, June:—(A. B. Wallace) Observations on the Zoology of Borneo, 
dated from Singapore, March 10, 1856. (Thos. Edward) List of the Birds of 
Banffshire. (W. M. H. Church) The Nightingale near Oundle. (J. P. Wilmot) 
An Egg prodigy. (H. Stevenson) Note on the late appearance of the common 
Scoter and Scaup Duck in Norfolk. (Edward Newman) The Miller’s Thumb 
in confinement ; What is Gasterosteus pungitius ? and is it British ? (Dr. 
Frazer) Some observations on the disease in Fish called fungus, which is so 
fatal in Aquaria, fish ponds, &c. (Edward Newman) Horse Leech swallowing 
a Worm. (H. T. Stainton) Entomological Botany; with more especial refer¬ 
ence to the Plants frequented by the Tineina. (Henry Doubleday) List of the 
British Eupitheciae; with notes on some of the species. This list has affixed 
all the synonyms, and is a most valuable contribution to those studying our 
native lepidoptera. (James Haughton, jun.) Some remarks on the economy of 
Granivorous Lepidopterous Larvae. (Edward Newman) Food plant of Antho- 
charis Cardamines, and on the Capture of Lebia crux-minor and Bembidium 
obliquum at Brighton. (H. Doubleday) Bemarks on Mr. Buxton’s note on 
Argynnis Lathonia and Pieris Daplidice.. (E. C. Buxton) Pieris Daplidice and 
Argynnis Lathonia. (A. F. Sheppard) Occurrence of Vanessa Antiopa at 
Cobham, Surrey, and of Notodonta carmelita at West Wickham. (Edwin 
Sheppard) Error in tlie Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer. (H. Harpur 
Crewe) Double-broodedness of Notodonta camelina. (S. Stone) Do the. males 
of certain of our Lepidopterous Insects become possessed of an instinctive 
knowledge of the “ whereabouts” of the Females even before the latter emerge 
from the Pupa. (W. H. Lowe) Capture of Elaphrus lapponicus in Glenalmond, 
Perthshire. (Edward Parfitt) Description of the Male of Callimome flavipes. 
Proceedings of Societies.—Entomological Society, May 5, 1856. 
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. New Series. 8vo. 
London. Vol. III.; with eighteen plates. 1854-1856. 
(Curtis) Two species of Hemerobius L. new to Britain, viz., Sisyra terminalis 
Curtis n. sp. and Hemerobius dipterus Burm. ; Bemarks on nomenclature of g. 
Coniopteryx and on Orthotcenia buoliana W. Vz., and its parasite Cremastus 
buoliance Curtis n. sp.—p. 55-60. (Newman) Two undescribed species of 
Thrips L.—p. 264-267. (Curtis) Coleopterous larvas ; with a plate—p. 33-40. 
