262 Anali/tical Notices of Books, 



U a new species of Chelonarium^ a genus hitherto regarded as 

 peculiar to America. 



The fifth stirps, the Brachelytra^ is connected with the pre- 

 ceding one through MicropepluSy (which is strongly allied to the 

 Nitidulidce^) and returns into the first by means of LcstevUy the 

 Carabus staphylinoides of Marsham. The insects composing it are 

 well known to be extremely rare in tropical climates, and we are 

 therefore by no means surprised that Dr. Horsfield did not collect 

 in Java a single insect referable to it ; although the existence of such 

 is most probable, since they have been brought both from the Con- 

 tinent of India, and from New Holland. Dr. Horsfield however 

 conceives that if they had been to be found either in carrion or in 

 flowers, they could scarcely have escaped his research. The ar- 

 rangement of the families is nevertheless given in the following 

 order : aberrant ?, head not so broad as the thorax, 5. Tachi/po- 

 ridcPy 4. PselaphidcBy 3. Omalidce ; normal ?, head as broad as the 

 thorax, 2. Stenidce^ and 1. StaphyUnidcB, 



Having thus briefly adverted to some of the leading features of 

 this truly scientific production, every page of which is pregnant 

 with materials for thinking, scarcely less adapted to the general 

 Zoologist than to the Entomologist in particular, it is almost on- 

 necessary to add that we look forward with anxiety to the ap- 

 pearance of its future nnmbers. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Vol. xir. 

 Part the third. 4to. pp. 395—605. Plates x. 



At the commencement of an analysis of this, the concluding 

 portion of the fourteenth volume of the Linnean Transactions, it 

 is impossible to abstain from expressing the warmest pleasure at 

 the important zoological character of its contents, which aff'ord a 

 gratifying prospect of the regeneration in this country of that sci- 

 ence in which England formerly ranked high above all her rivals. 

 The names of Lister, Ray, and Ellis, are deservedly estimated 

 among us, but to those profound students of Nature there suc- 

 ceeded no one capable of maintaining the elevated station which 



