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(Saunders, W. W.) Characters of undescribed Lucanidae, collected in China by 
K. Fortune, Esq.; with two plates—p. 45-55. Fourteen new species are here de- 
cribed and figured. (Westwood) New species of exotic Lucanidae; with 
three plates—p. 197-221. Twenty-three species are described, and nearly 
all figured, of which fifteen as new. (Same) Supplemental descriptions of 
species of African, Asiatic, and Australian Cetonidae; with two plates— 
p. 61-74. Seven new species are described and figured. (Curtis) Critical 
remarks on British Elateridae, with descriptions of some- of the species; with a 
plate-—p. 10-17. (Janson) Observations on the species described by Mr. Curtis 
—p. 222-224. (Westwood) Gnostus n. g. inhabiting ants’ nests in Brazil; with 
a plate—p. 90-94. The species G. formicicola Westw. was found by Mr. Bates in 
the nests of Myrmica victima at Santarem. Mr. Westwood considers it as the 
type of a peculiar sub-family of the Xylophaga Latr. It is peculiarly remarkable 
for the structure of the antennae, which are composed of only three joints, all after 
the second being united in a solid mass. The ventral segments are but three, the 
intermediate one very short. (Same) Four new species of Paussidae—p. 81-83. 
(Waterhouse) Notes on the gg. Amycterus and Acantholophus , with descriptions of 
some new species—p. 75-80. (Baly) Monograph of the Australian species of 
Chrysomela , Phyllocharis, &c. ; with a plate—p. 170-186, 241-263. (Water- 
house and Janson) On the British species of g. Stenus —p. 136-156. A valuable 
contribution towards the arduous but necessary work of a complete revision of the 
list of British Coleoptera, encumbered as it is with spurious species and an inac¬ 
curate nomenclature. By means of Kirby’s MSS. descriptions, which Stephens 
had abridged and altered for his Illustrations, and of a careful collation of the col¬ 
lections of both, the authors of this essay have arrived at an elucidation of many 
of the defects and errors of the Illustrations, and have reduced the nomenclature 
to some degree of method and consistency, according to the desire expressed by 
Erichson in the preface to the Monograph of Staphylini. (Westwood) Descrip¬ 
tions of various spp. of Pselaphidae of N. S. Wales and S. America; with two 
plates—p. 272-280. Fifteen new species are here described, of which five belong 
to g. Articerus , and two to Metopias. (Desvignes) Ichneumon paludator n. sp., 
a parasite of different species of Nonagria—p. 44. (Smith) Economy of Pompi- 
lus punctum , and other Hymenoptera—p. 41-43. (Same) On the genera and 
species of British Formicidae—p. 95-135. This careful revision of a difficult 
family brings up the number of British species to twenty-eight, arranged under six 
genera. (Same) Descriptions of some Brazilian ants of the genera Pseudomyrma , 
Eciton, Myrmica, and observations on their economy, by Mr. H. W. Bates; with 
a plate—p. 156-169. (Desborough) Observations on the Honey-bee; continua¬ 
tion of the Prize Essay for 1852—p. 187-196. (Newman) Notice of a sackbearing 
Bombyx, Perophora hatesii , found by Mr. Bates near Santarem ; with a nlate—p. 
1-8. (Same) New Australian Lepidoptera, collected by Mr. Oxley; witn a plate 
—p. 281-300. The species amount to thirty, and three new genera are proposed 
among the Tineina. (Stainton) Entomological difficulties exemplified in the g. 
Elachista —p. 84-89. (Same) Three new species of Indian Micro-lepidoptera— 
301-304. (Lubbock) Freshwater Entomostraca of S. America; with a plate—p. 
232-240. Two species are added to g. Cypris , and to Daphnia and Diaptomus 
one each. (Newman) Memorandum on the wing-rays of insects—p. 225-231. 
(Davy) Observations on the excrement of insects—p. 18-32. List of the officers 
and members of the Society, Additions to the Library and Collection, Table of 
Contents of Yol. III.—pp. 24. Journal of proceedings from February, 1854, to 
January, 1856—pp. 158. General Index—pp. 11. 
Note on Mr. Newman’s Memorandum on the Wing-rays of Insects. 
The author has expressed a desire that Physiology should have some share of the 
attention of British Entomologists ; and with this view he has offered a modest con¬ 
tribution in that department. Concurring with him in the regret that so little has 
been done for that branch of Entomology, through a society expressly instituted for 
the cultivation of the science among us, we are more disposed to welcome than to 
scrutinize severely any contribution intended to redeem them from a reproach. 
But while any accession to physiological truths may exceed in value the rapidly 
accumulating descriptions of new species and extemporaneous genera; it follows, 
