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published in the last forty-eight years. The present is distinguished from 

 all similar ones by the addition of citations to all the already described 

 species, which becomes the more necessary as the materials increase. It is 

 in this respect of very great utility for the purpose of reference. 



In an appendix a select number of partly new species are described and 

 illustrated by figures, -which show that the author still retains the high po- 

 sition in the art that he has occupied for more than fifty years. 



Leopold. Hem. Fischer, in his Inaugural Dissertation, 

 " Diss. Inaug. Zool. sist. Enumeratiouem Coleopterorum 

 circa Friburgum Brisgovise indigenarum ; Frib. Brisg. 1843," 

 has given a careful and valuable essay on the distribution of 

 the Coleoptera in Germany. 



Contributions to the Knowledge of the Coleopterous 

 Fauna of Finland are given by Mannerheim, in which he 

 has put together his observations upon that Class during the 

 year 1842, in an attractive manner, and generally described 

 the new species. (Bull. Mosc. pp. 70-88.) He has paid 

 particular attention to the Myrmecophila. 



The new species discovered by Dr. Schrenk in the steppes 

 and mountains of Songaria, have been published by Gebler. 

 (Bull. Physico-Math. deTAcad. de St. Petersbourg, i, p. 36.) 



Hope (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 364) has continued his 

 account of new species from tropical Africa ; the present 

 communication relates to the Water-beetles, Elateridse, and 

 Cerambvcinfe. 



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Contributions to the Coleopterous Fauna of the Aleutian 

 Islands, Sitkha, and New California, by Count Mannerheim. 

 (Bull. Mosc. p. 175.) A comprehensive enumeration of all 

 the species observed up to the present time in those regions, 

 a great part of which were discovered by Eschscholtz and 

 others, but to which very considerable additions of new 

 species have been made. Since the Fauna of the Aleutian 

 Islands and Sitkha has so little intimate connexion with that 

 of California, it would probably have been more to the pur- 

 pose to have separated the two, and treated them apart. 



Numerous new species from New Granada, found by 

 J. Goudot, have been made known by Guerin. (Rev. Zool. 

 p. 12.) 



