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in his work, we might have been led to expect a more nume- 

 rous and more southern kind of list than our own country 

 possesses, yet a comparison of the lists is decidedly in our 

 favour ; for instance, there is but one species of Elaphrtis, 

 one of Licinus, one of Cymindis, two of Pselaphus, six of 

 Euplecttis, &c. It is to be regretted that the author was not 

 acquainted with Stephens' Illustrations, because many of his 

 names, both of genera and species, will necessarily sink into 

 synonymes, being posterior to those of our English writers ; 

 thus, his genus Cyllidium is the Chcetarthria of Waterhouse 

 and Stephens ; his Cyclonotum is Ccelosterna of Brulle. The 

 Aleocharidii are very elaborately worked out, and many new 

 genera proposed. 



The second in our list is the commencement of a work up- 

 on the Coleoptera, Orthoptera, and Hemiptera of Lapland, 

 by the veteran Zetterstedt. This first part is of an oblong 

 quarto form, (a rather incommodious one), and is printed in 

 double columns, without plates. The system adopted is that 

 of Latreille, and the species are described to the end of the 

 Tetramerous Xylophaga. It may be easily conceived that in 

 the region in question, insects are less numerous than in our 

 own land ; and it will be sufficient to observe that there are 

 only seven species of Apion described in the work. Of the 

 genera, one only is mentioned which does not occur in this 

 country, namely, Boreaphilus, a small Staphylinideous in- 

 sect, which will probably occur in Scotland. 



The third work on our list is an illustration of so much of 

 the 'Systema Naturae' of Linnaeus, and of the 'Systema Eleu- 

 theratorum' of Fabricius, as relates to the two great Linnaean 

 genera, Scarabceus and Lacanus; the object of the writer 

 being to point out the modern genera to which the old de- 

 scribed species are referrible, the authors of such modern ge- 

 nera having, in many instances, too much neglected the writ- 

 ings of these "heroes sciential" whilst the latter were often in 

 error as to the true localities of their species. With this view, 

 tables are given of the species, indicating the name, locality, 

 and modern genus of each of the Linnaean and Fabrician spe- 

 cies, and accompanied by notes upon many of the species, 

 and by an appendix, in which a number of new genera are 

 described, which had been for the most part previously indica- 

 ted and partly described, in Mr. Kirby's manuscripts, presented 

 by that gentleman to the Entomological Society. From the 

 examination of the Linnaean collection and the Banksian ca- 

 binet, described by Fabricius, both in the possession of the 

 Linnean Society, and from his own splendid collection, and 

 an extensive correspondence with continental naturalists, Mr. 



