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graphia Coleotterologica Italiana" in P. Liiigioni's Coleoterri d'ltalia (1929), 

 the "Bibliography" in Leng's Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America North of 

 Mexico (1920), with its five supplements (1927-1948); and Musgrave's Bibliog- 

 raphy of Australian Entomology (1932). 



In 1868 to 1876 there appeared in twelve volumes the Catalogus Coleopter- 

 orum Hucusque Descriptorum of M. Gemminger (b. 1820, d. 1887) and E. von 

 Harold (b. 1830, d. 1886), enumerating about 77,000 species for the world. 



In 1864 the Abbe S. A. de Marseul (b. 1812, d. 1890) established UAheille, 

 the first journal devoted exclusively to the science of the Coleoptera. Twenty-six 

 annual volumes of this periodical appeared to 1889. They contained mono- 

 graphic studies, occasional French translations of German papers, biobiblio- 

 graphical sketches of entomologists, and French translations of isolated descrip- 

 tions of Old World beetles. After Marseul 's death, publication became irregular 

 and finally terminated with Vol. XXXVI (1938). Marseul's idea of a journal 

 of coleopterology was imitated. Von Harold issued the Coleopterologische Hefte, 

 Vols. I-XVI (1867-1879). M. Cheron issued fifteen numbers of Le Coleopteriste 

 (1890-1891); and Karl and Josef Daniel published ten numbers of their Miin- 

 chener Koleopterologische Zeitschrift, Vols. I-III (1902-1908). 



The two most important extant journals of beetle studies are the Ento- 

 mologische Blatter, Vols. 1-48 (1904-1952), founded by H. Bickhardt, and the 

 Coleopterologische (later Koleopterologische) Rundschau, Vols. 1-31 (1912- 

 1948), founded by Adolf Hoffmann. Other more ephemeral serials were Pierre 

 Lesne's Coleoptera, Vols. 1-3 (1925-1929); and Hans Wagner's Coleopterolo- 

 gisches Centralhlatt, Vols. 1-6 (1926-1933). Adolf Horion's Koleopterologische 

 Zeitschrift, Vol. 1 (1949) and G. Frey and Hans Kulzer's Entomologische Ar- 

 heiten, Vols. 1-3 (1950-1952) have started publication since the war. All these 

 journals published important contributions and monographs in their day, but 

 the bulk of coleopterological studies appeared in journals of general entomology 

 or of even broader scope. 



The second century of coleopterology had opened with coleopterists somewhat 

 restive under the tarsomeral classification of Geoffroy (b. 1727, d. 1810). While 

 this system indicated with some success such groups as the Heteromera or the 

 Phytophaga-Rhynchophora complex or even the Coccinellidae, it utterly failed 

 in the Staphjdinidae, and Erichson was seeking for ''natural" families. Dar- 

 win's Origin of Species, 1859, opened new vistas, but it was from the penetrat- 

 ing labors of Georg Seidlitz (b. 1840, d. 1917) of the University of Dorpat in 

 Estonia that the modern classification really dated. Seidlitz' Fauna Baltica. 

 Die Kdfer (Coleoptera) der Ostseeprovinzen Russlands (1872-1874) not only 

 provided a superior faunal work for a new area, but (pp. xxviii-xxx) gave an 

 analysis of the order into ten major subdivisions which subsequent students have 

 done little more than rearrange and rename. Outstanding among Seidlitz' suc- 

 cessors was Ludwig Ganglbauer (b. 1856, d. 1912), Keeper at the Imperial Nat- 

 ural History Museum in Vienna. Ganglbauer, author of a superior but never 

 completed descriptive catalogue of Die Kdfer von Mittelexiropa, Vols. I-IV 

 (1892-1904), proposed in 1903- the suborders Adephaga and Polyphaga, which 

 have since dominated most thinking along this line. 



2. Systematisch-koleopterologischen Studien, Munch. Kol. Zeit. 1:271-319, 1903. 



