120 REPORT OX ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIH. 



Connected Avith German local Faunas several contribu- 

 tions are given in the Entomol. Zeituiig : Aphoristische 

 Mittheilungen liber die Umgebmigen von Bad Ems in 

 entomologischer Bezielmng, von Suffrian (pp. 283-92). 

 Entomologische Excursionen im Monat Juni 1842 in der 

 Umgegend des Badcs Kissiugen, von Weidenbach (p. 125). 

 Ueber Insecta die an den Salinen leben, von v. Heyden 

 (p. 227). To the Fauna of Silesia belong communications 

 from v. Uechtritz and Schlunimel in the Uebersicht d. Arb. 

 u. Verand. d. schles. Gesellsch. f. vaterl. Kultur, Yr. 1, 1843. 



Redtenhacher, Remarks on the Coleoptera collected by 

 Theodor Kotschy in Russegger's Travels in Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa, vol. i, 1843. 



In the general remarks the author recognizes very correctly the great cor- 

 respondence of the Fauna with that of the Mediterranean in general, and 

 especially with that of the Morea. In this introduction the already known 

 species are mentioned accordingly, and their distribution everywhere accu- 

 rately determined ; his materials, however, were too scanty to allow of the 

 author's estimating the important relation which the Fauna of Syria bears 

 to that of central Asia ; of the Persian highlands on the one side, and the 

 valley districts of the Euphrates on the other. 



A contribution to the Insect Fauna of Angola, with 

 special relation to the geographical distribution of the 

 Insects of Africa, by the Reporter, in these Archives. 

 (Year 9, vol. i, p. 199.) Of the Insect Fauna of Congo 

 some account, from materials sent by Curror and Cranch, 

 has been given by Ad. White. (Ann. Nat, Hist, xii, p. 262.) 



A collective list of the known Insects of New Zealand, 

 by Adam White and Ed. Doubleday, has appeared in 

 Dicffenbach's Travels in New Zealand, vol. ii, p. 265. 



The greater part of the species enumerated were discovered in Bank's 

 Voyage, and have been already described by Fabricius. 



COLEOPTERA. Heer (Entom. Zeit. p. 47) has instituted 

 important researches on the hitherto little regarded pli- 

 cation of the wings of the Coleoptera. These observations 

 are the more worthy of consideration, that the mode in 

 which the wings are folded under the elytra is not without 



