316 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



and even of the north of China, differs from the European less than that of 

 Barbary. 



Catalogus Coleopterorum Europse. Zusammengestellt 

 auf Veranlassung des Entomologischen Vereins zu Stettin 

 vom Geh. Reg. Schmidt, Stettin, 1844. 



According to oral information received from the author, this catalogue, 

 which has no further aim than to facilitate exchanges between collectors, 

 was compiled with the greatest haste ; nevertheless judicious use has been 

 made of the Monographs that have appeared most recently. In many por- 

 tions of such a compilation the names of catalogues and manuscripts are 

 felt as an encumbrance ; but one which will diminish daily, in proportion 

 as Faunas and Monographs carry on the advance of the science. The 

 activity at present evinced in this direction will, doubtless, make a new 

 edition of this catalogue by the same author, to the present date, much more 

 complete. 



Of Sturm's Peutschland's Fauna, the 15th volume has 

 appeared, containing the continuation of the Nitidularise 

 and the new genus of Carabidse, Auophthahnus. 



Grundlage zu einem Verzeichnisse der Kafer des Harzes 

 seiner Umgebungen, entworfen von E. G. Hornung. Erste 

 und Abth. Die Lauf-und Schwimmkafer, Aschersl. 1844. 



The Natural History Society of the Harz has proposed, as its special 

 object, to investigate the natural productions of that district. The author 

 has undertaken the Coleoptera, of which this essay forms the first part. 

 The Harz comprehends a space of sixteen [German] miles by ten, and, witli 

 great diversity of positive elevation, physical configuration, soil and vegeta- 

 tion, presents indisputably one of the most interesting and copious Faunas 

 of Northern Germany, and one which has been diligently investigated, as 

 the present part of the catalogue evinces. The locality is particularized 

 under every species, and frequently critical remarks are appended. 



Catalogo dei Coleopteri della Lombardia, compilato dai 

 fratelli Antonio e Gio. Battista Villa. Milano, 1844. 



A catalogue merely, the extent of which is evidence that it affords a very 

 complete summary of the Coleoptera of Lombardy. 



Excursion Eiitomologique dans les montagnes cle la vallee 

 d'Ossau, par Leon Dufour. (Bull. Soc. des Sciences, Lettres 

 et Arts de Pan.) 



Records 7G8 species of Coleoptera collected in this excursion. A num- 

 ber of new species are proposed, some reducible to known ones, others not 

 to be determined with certainty from the brief specific characters given. 



