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Art. XXXVIII. — Notices of Foreign Entomological Works. 



1. DeutscJilands Insecfen heraiisgegehen von Dr. G. W. F. 

 Pa)izer, fortgesetzt von Dr. G. A. W. Herrick Sckaffer. Heft 

 111 — 115. {The Insects of Germany, published by Panzer , 

 continued by Herrich Schaeffer. No. Ill — 115.) — This con- 

 tinuation of Panzer's useful work is now being published 

 regularly every month. It is much to be regretted that 

 Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer, the present editor, does not keep the 

 insects distinctly separated from the Arachnides described and 

 figured by Koch ; and to which he has latterly given a very 

 great preponderance, to the prejudice of the entomologist, 

 who, notwithstanding that the literature of entomology is in 

 itself already almost overwhelming, is thus forced to encumber 

 his shelves, and lay out his money, for fasciculi which are of 

 no use or interest whatever to him. To the arachneologist he 

 has been more considerate, having separated the Arachnides 

 as a distinct work. That this complaint is not frivolous, a 

 very loose calculation will readily convince. For instance, in 

 the forty-five fasciculi superintended by Dr. Herrich-Schaetfer, 

 there are 1,080 plates; and of these only 426 contain insects, 

 as from No. 119 he has introduced these Arachnides^ to which 

 class (and to microscopic species that cannot be preserved), 

 many of the fasciculi are exclusively devoted. Should this 

 meet his eye, we think he would do wisely to take the hint, 

 and adopt a similar plan of accommodation for the entomo- 

 logist; otherwise, the probability is, that many who now take 

 this work, as a continuation to their Panzer — although, unfor- 

 tunately, the accurate hand of a Sturm is not found in it — 

 will necessarily discontinue it. We much approve of the 

 useful addition that has been made, in the date of the publica- 

 tion at the bottom of the fasciculi, which thus fixes, for new 

 species, a definite epoch. 



2. Germar Fauna Insectorum Europce. Fas. 1 — 19. — The 

 last fasciculus published of this work is dedicated to the deli- 

 neation of fossil insects. It contains twenty-five from the coal 

 formations, chiefly those of the seven mountains in the vicinity 

 of Bonn. Germar observes, there are no extraordinary forms 

 amongst them, and that he has detected scarcely any of the 



