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DOUGLAS (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 137) records insects of various orders taken
at Deal.
In the protocol of 47th meeting of Soc. Imp. des Amat. des Sc. Nat.
d'Anthrop. et d'Ethnogr. held at Moscow 29th January 1870, is an account
(amongst other things) of the insects collected by Fedtschenko during an
expedition to the valley of Zaravschan. 59 species of Dolichopidce (Dipt.)
are recorded, of which 28 are new, almost all being named, but not described.
Oschanin names 109 spp. of the Hemiptera, of which 16 are new; these are
named and described (with Latin diagnoses). One new genus and seven
new species of Tenthredinidee are also characterized by Mme. Freymuth.
A collection of short descriptions of species of Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera,
and Araehnida described recently as new, from Italy, is contained in
Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. pp. 56-67.
A few general remarks on the Entomology of Japan are made in Mem, Soc.
Cherb. 2nd ser. iv. pp. 90 & 91, and on the Insecta of New Zealand, pp. 314
& 315, by Jouan.
In " Notes on the Fauna of Tasmania," by Krefft, published in P. R. Soc.
Tasm., are some curt indications of the Insecta of that country, pp. 103 &
104.
Some notes on the insects of Round Island are published by Pike in P. R.
Soc. Maur. iv. p. 131 et seq.
MULSANT, in his ' Souvenirs du Mont Pilat,' gives some entomological
details, with a Catalogue of the more remarkable Coleoptera and Lepidoptera
found on that mountain.
Lists of species taken at Molencate (including some new to the Dutch fauna)
are given by v. Hasselt, v. Vollenhoven, Ritsema, and De Man in Tijdschr.
Ent. 2nd ser. Deel v. pp. 30-34.
EIBBY (J. R. Dubl. Soc. 1870, pp. 436-444) gives an account of insects
collected by him in Italy and Switzerland, and at Hilden, near Diisseldorf
(the Lepidoptera only being of any interest).
LABOULBENE specifies Coleoptera and Hymenoptera from Cannes (Ann.
Soc. Ent. Fr. 4 e ser. x. Bull. p. xxxiv).
COLEOPTERA
By E. C. RYE.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
ABEILLE DE PERRIN, ELZEAR. Nouveaux Coleopteres francais.
Ann. Soc. Ent. (4) x. pp. 79-90.
Contains descriptions at full length of 6 species, of which the
diagnoses were published in Pet. Nouv. 1 Dec. 1869 (Zool. Rec.
vi.), and of one other sp., for which the author erroneously claims
a date in that year.
ALLARD, ERNEST. Revision des Curculionides Byrsopsides.
B.E. Z. xiv. 1870 (Beiheft), pp. 185-206, Taf. i.
Although not so indicated by the above title, this work is confined
to the two genera Rhytirhinus and Gronops, representing
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