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of England and Wales, and it must be confessed that the success 

 which has attended his labours in this department is greater than 

 could have been anticipated, no fewer than fifty-three species having 

 been added by him to the catalogue. Much of this success is to be 

 attributed to the fact of his attention having been chiefly directed 

 to those species which, on account of their diminutive size, require 

 the aid of optical instruments, of a high magnifying power, for their 

 accurate examination. 



The genera to which the species chiefly belong are Drassus, Clu- 

 biona, Lycosa, Agelena, Theridium, Walckenaera, Neriene and Liny^ 

 phia. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



ON THE PLACE OF SCARABJEUS LONGIMANUS IN THE SYSTEM. 



M. Klug read before the Academy of Sciences of Berlin a paper 

 upon the place of Scarabceus longimanus in the system. Its afl[inity 

 to Geotrupes, Fabr. {Scarabceus, Latr.), among which it has been 

 placed in modern systems, consists only in its considerable size. It 

 is most decidedly removed from this genus by its very small and 

 simply formed anterior half of the body, or head and prothorax, com- 

 pared to the elytra or posterior portion, which, as is never the case 

 in the Scarabcei, are completely defenceless ; by the quadrate cly- 

 peus, which is deeper in the middle, but on the contrary is sharply 

 edged anteriorly and at the sides ; by the clearly visible, perpendi- 

 cularly descending lip with a projecting tuft of hair, as in Lucanus ; 

 by the similar lancet-formed mandibles, which lie concealed as in 

 Ateuchus and Copris, Trichius and Cetonia ; by the triangular hinder 

 part of the body which projects over the elytra, as in Melolontha ; 

 lastly, as in the latter, by the curved claws armed in the centre with 

 a strong curved tooth. It appears possible from the last-mentioned 

 character, as well as from the form of the clypeus and the exceed- 

 ingly similar form of the body, to reckon the Sc. longimanus amongst 

 the true Melolonthidce, yet the formation of the mandi])les does not 

 allow this, and it rather requires to be placed at some distance from 

 Scarabceus and even after Cyclocephala, yet before Melolontha. The 

 genus has been determined, and is according to Hope Eucheirus of 

 Kirby. The Scarabceus mucronatus, Pall, would form a second spe- 

 cies, which, under the name of Propomacrus Arbaces, has been de- 

 scribed over again and delineated as new by Newman in the fourth 

 number of the Entomological Magazine for the year 1837. Thus 



