qq [September, 



BlDRAG TILL NORDVESTRA SlBERIENS InSEKTFAUNA. COLEOPTERA. Insam- 



lade under Expeditionerna till Obi och Jenessei 1876 och 1877- . Fortecknade af 

 John Sahlberg. I. Cicindelidae, Carabidse, Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidse, G-yrinidae, 

 Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Limnichidsa, Hetei-oceridae, Staphilinidae, ocli Micropeplidse. 

 Med en Tafia. Stockholm, 1880, pp. 1—115, 4to. 



This masterly work, published as a part of the " Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps- 

 Akademiens Handlingar" (Bandet 17, No. 4), consists of a synonymic enumeration 

 (in Latin) of the species of Coleoptera, of the Families indicated, which were 

 collected in the expedition to N.W. Siberia under Nordenskiold. One new genus, 

 Nordenskioldia (StapliylinidceJ is characterized, and the number of species 

 indicated is 750, whereof 78 are described as new. The author acknowledges the 

 assistance of Dr. Sharp in working out the Dytiscida and that of M. Fauvel in the 

 Staphylinidce. The plate contains excellent figures of 18 species, of which 17 are 

 new, including the Nordenskidldia glacialis, of which 3 examples were found under 

 pebbles, among ice, at the margin of a mountain rivulet. Independent of the 

 interest that this work has as a record of the results of arduous enterprize in an 

 inhospitable, slightly explored region, it has much value in the observations on little- 

 known species, and especially in the synonymy generally, in which respect some 

 of our British species are affected. The want of an Index is to be regretted ; this, 

 perhaps, may be supplied with part ii of the work. 



*■ Hbmipteba Argentina enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit Caroltts Berg 

 (Curonus). Bonariae, Pauli e. Coni. ; Hamburgo, Frederking et Graf. 1879, pp. 

 1—316, 8vo. 



The increased and increasing attention bestowed upon the collecting and study 

 of Hemiptera is shown in the number of general and particular memoirs devoted to 

 these insects which appear continually in Transactions of Societies, Journals, or 

 separately. The volume now under notice is a collection of papers in scientific 

 sequence previously published in parts of the "Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica," 

 during the years 1878 and 1879, and constitutes a valuable addition to the knowledge 

 of the Hemiptera of the Argentine Bepublic. The number of species enumerated is 

 384, namely, 268 Heteroptera and 116 Homoptera, in which are included many that 

 are new, and a few new genera. It might have been surmised that an author writing 

 in the native country of the species treated of, and far from European centres of 

 information, would be at gi*eat disadvantage ; but it appears that M. Berg has had 

 the assistance of the late Professor Stal and Drs. Beuter, Mayr, and Spangberg, so 

 he has doubtless escaped errors otherwise probable or unavoidable, and this care 

 on his part enhances the value of his work, which we trust will become as widely 

 known as it deserves to be. 



Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist's Society, 

 presented to the Members for 1880— 81. Vol. iii, Pt. ii. Norwich: 1881. 



We have on several previous occasions had the pleasure of noticing the publica- 

 tions of this thriving and useful Society. The present part of the Transactions is 

 in no way behind those that have preceded it from the point of view of general 



