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those of Thymelicus aclxon and Urbicola comma have also received their finishing 

 details. Enough, however, has been said to show the vahie of this first instalment 

 of Mr. Tutt's great work, which is indispensable to every serious student of the 

 Order Lepidoptera. We would add that the twenty plates with whicli the volume 

 is illustrated are reproduced in excellent style from first-rate photographs, and 

 would especially call attention to the beautiful and life-like figures of Heaperia 

 malvw in its natural attitudes, from photographs taken by Mr. Hugh Main, on 

 plate XIX. A volume dealing with the remainder of the " Ruralides " is, we 

 understand, well advanced in preparation, and will be published probably within 

 the next twelve months, and this we shall be heartily glad to welcome. — -J. J. W. 



Cataloocts Coleopteeorum Europe, Caucasi et Armenia rossic^ : by 

 Dr. L. V. Heyden, E. Reitter, and J. Weise : edited by E. Reitter ; Editio 

 Secunda : Berlin, Paskau and Caen, 1906. Imp. 8vo, ))p. 771. 



Students of Palcearctic Coleoptera will be pleased to see the new and revised 

 edition of this very useful list. A comparison of the two editions shows the vast 

 number of additions that have been made during the past fifteen years, and also 

 that our knowledge of the European Coleoptera is by means exhausted. An inno- 

 vation in the present list is the separate pagination of the two columns on every page, 

 and the much larger size of the pages themselves. The system of classification 

 adopted is also new, and one that will probably not commend itself to the purely 

 British Coleopterist. The species are arranged under nine main groups : — (1) 

 Adephaga, for the families usually included under that name, plus the Rhysodidx 

 and Faussid.i; ; (2) Poltphaga, for the Staphylinidif. (arranged in the reverse 

 order, commencing with the Piestinx), and several of the families belonging to the 

 Clavicorn series; (3) Palpicobnia ; (4) Canthaboidea, for the Malacoderms, 

 Bytu'fidx, Ostomidx, SpAwritidas, Nitidulidx, Cucuj'idas, Cryptophagidse, Erotylidse, 

 Phalacridse, Thorictidse, Lathridiid.v, Mycetophagidit', Sphindidx, Cissidas, Coly- 

 diidss, Endomychidx, Coccinellidas, &c. ; (5) Dascilloidea, for ihe Helodidss, Uryo- 

 pidse, Georyssidse, Heteroceridx, Dermestidae, Nosodendridas, JByrrhidas, Dascillidas, 

 and most of the Serricorn series ; (6) Heteromera, commencing with the (Edeme- 

 ridae, and ending with the Tenebrionidx ; (7) Phytophaga, for the Cerambycidx, 

 Chrysomelidm, and Lariidx {Bruchidx) ; (8) RuYNCiiOPHORA, commencing with the 

 Anthribidx ; (9) Lamellicoknia. This arrangement, it may be noted, is somewhat 

 similar to that proposed by Dr. Sharp, in the Cambridge Natural History, vol. ii 

 (1899), who divided the Coleoptera into six sections : (I) LameUicornia ; ("Z) Ade- 

 phaga ; (3) Polymorpha ; (4) Reteromera ; (5) Phytophaga ; (6) Rhynvhophora. 

 Most of the species and varieties described by British authors seem to be noted, 

 including such recent additions as Eiiplectus tomlini and Dacne foioleri,3oj,ih.o\ig\\ 

 at least one omission is obvious, viz., Ceuthorrhynchiis contractus, Marsh., var. 

 pallipes, Crotch (described in Fowler's Coleoptera of the British Islands), from 

 Lundy Island. Two pre-occupied generic names are retained, viz., Diglossa and 

 Hylophilus, though in each case there is another one available. 



Preliminary List of Coleoptera obsera'ed in the neighbourhood of 

 Oxford from 1819 to 1907 : compiled for the Ashmolean Natural History Society 



