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III. Pedestres, Mesothorax in front, contracted ; retiring from the prosternum and permitting a freer motion 

 of the prothorax. approaching the structure of the Cicindelids ; including the Harpalidaj, Scaritida? and Brach- 

 inidae of Mae Leay. 



The Carabici of Denmark have been carefully revised by Schiodte. 



The Premices Entomologiques of Putzeys (Mem. Soc. Liege, Vol. II), contains a monograph of Pasimachus 

 and an allied genus and a great number of new species belonging to this tribe. The same author has also more 

 recently published a very extensive monograph on the genera allied to Clivina. 



A remarkable genus allied to Procrustes from Xanthos, has been described by White (Ann. Nat. Hist. Vol XV) 

 Various new African species allied to Anthia are described by Bertoloni, the American species allied to Scarites 

 subterraneus, by Le Comte, (Boston Journal); and many new Russian species by Kolenati (Meletemata En. 

 tomologica). A group of small extent, but very singular structure, and remarkable for the strung resemblance 

 to aquatic beetles, has been proposed under the name of Heteromorphidaa to include the American genus 

 Drepanus, and the Australian Adelotopus and Silphumorpha (Westwood in Linn. Trans. Vol. XVIII). The 

 Carabidse of the Voyage of the Beagle, collected by Mr. C. Darwin, have been described by Waterhouse in various 

 papers in the Annals of Natural History. The Scaritidae of New Holland, several of which are of singular 

 beauty, have been il.ustrated in my Arcana Entomologica, and the Australian Promecoderi, by Guerin, (Revue 

 Zoul.) ; the Carabici of India are carefully described by Schmidt Gobel in the first part of his work upon the 

 collection in the Museum of Prague ; the species allied to Hellu > (p. 495), have been revised by Reiche, and divided 

 into nine genera. (Annates of the French Ent. Soc.) Many additional exotic genera and species have also been 

 described by Bohemann and by Chaudoir, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, 1842 and 1843. Hope, Newman, 

 Lucas, Chevrolat, Menetries, Gebler, Redtenbacher, Erichson, White, and others, have also described many new 

 detached species and genera. The species of California and Sitka have been monographed by Mannerheim, and those 

 of Columbia by Reiche. The British species have been revised by Schaum, in the Entomol. Zeitung. Amongst the 

 most remarkable of these new genera, is Anopthalmus of Sturm, founded on a blind species which inhabits the 

 Luegger Caves, in Krania. A second blind species was also found in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, by 

 Tellkampf. 



The family Dtticidje (p. 504), has received some additions of Danish species by Schiodte, in "Danmark's 

 Eleutherata." The species found near Erlangen have been monographed by Rosenhauer, and various detached 

 species have been described by other authors. The singular external marks of distinction in the sexes of some of 

 the species have been described by Count Mannerheim ; and Dr. Schmidt has investigated the causes of the sound 

 emitted by Pelobius Hermanni. Dr. Schaum has revised the British species, and also published notes on the 

 synonymy of many of the European ones in the Entomol. Zeitung. 



The Gtbisid.e, (p. 506). The German species have been revised by Suffrian (Entomol. Zeit), and Von Keisen- 

 wetter has published some interesting observations on the habits of Orectochilus Villosus in the same work. 



The Bbacuelttba (p. 500), have received great additions since the first editioD of this work. Erichson's 

 Genera and Species Staphylinorum has been completed in two 8vo. volumes. In this work, the Brachelytra are 

 divided into eleven primary tribes, characterized chiefly by the conspicuous or hidden position of the breathing 

 pores of the prothorax, the insertion of the Antenna;, the form of the anterior and posterior coxa;, and of the 

 posterior trochanters. These tribes are named from thrir typical genera. — 1. Aleocharini ; 2. Tachyporini ; 

 3. Staphylinini; 4. Pajderini ; 5. Pinophilini ; 6. Stenini ; 7. Oxytelini ; 8. Piestini; 9. PhUeocharini ; 10. Oma- 

 liui ; 11. Proteinini. The Liunrean species of this tribe have been revised by me in an article published in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society. Mr. Holme has also published some interesting notes in the 3rd 

 Volume of the same work; anil Mr. Haliday has published some valuable "Notes on the Staphvliniihc," in the 

 Entomologist. The numerous species of this tribe which reside in ant's nests, have formed the subject of many 



papers in Germar's Zeitschrit't, and in the Entomol. Zeitung by different authors. Numerous species from *itku 



Island, are described by Count Mannerheim ; Others from Angola by Erichson ; and others from New Granada by 

 Guerin. The German species have been revised by Kiescnwetter, in the Entomol Zeitung. An excellent article on 

 the curious genus Micraljmnia Westw., has also been published by Schiodte, (Linnaa Entomol.) 



The Bupbxstises (p. 608), have b en enriched with many new and beautiful exotic Bpecii s bj Spinola, Guerin, 

 Chevrolat, Buquet, Erichson, Lucas, and White, The transformations of various >j ci i avi been described by 

 Pechioli, l.amotte Baraoe, Lucas, Leon Dufour, and Bertolinl. A discussion on the structure of th ae larva 

 between L. Dufour, Goureau and lilanchanl, has been published in the Annals of the French EntomoL Sooii tv. 



The splendid (but as regards its generics! anatomical details, carelessly executed) work of Gory and Laporte, 



has been brought to a conclusion, and a re vii H of it bee n published by Spinola in the luviir Zoologique. 



The Elatbbidbs (p. 510), have undergone an extensive revision bj Germarand Erichson, in the Zeitschrift fur 



die Entomologie. The luminous species allied to E Noctiiucus. of which the number is now kuowntobe consi- 

 derable, have been formed into a separate genus named I'vrophorus. Various detached exotic s|>- '•■ ■ u 

 described by different authors, The splendid gem sternus, and the remarks atic species with fla> 

 bellate antennas, have been monographed by Mr. Hope in the [rans. EntomoL Soc., and Proc theZooL 

 Society ; and some very beautiful Imlian species have been figured in my Cabinet of Oriental Entomology 1 be 



Natural History of many species Injurious to the Agriculturist, has l..en published b.V Mr. Curtis in the Journal 



of the Royal Agricultural Society. 



The sub-genera allied to Call .a and l: uen, m is (p. no), have been revised by Guerin in the Annals of the Preucta 

 Entomological Society, in which the species, all of which are highly Interesting, are divided into seventeen 



genera. 



The Ceuiuonitf.s (p. 611), have I tigated with much care bj If. Gufirtn, in the first three numbers of 



