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countries be increased, but they must learn to call the same insect 

 by the same name, and therefore it is that the rectification of 

 nomenclature, which to short-sighted individuals appears such a 

 " much ado about nothing," is a most essential preliminary. It is 

 not the be-all and end-all of Entomological inquiry, but it is abso- 

 lutely necessary before further progress can be made. The astronomer 

 before he makes an observation satisfies himself that his instruments 

 are true and correct ; for if not, of what use will be the observation ? 

 The Entomologist must act in like manner. 



We would gladly see more local Faunas worked out as this of 

 Frey's is done, and we trust the day is not distant when at least 

 we shall have one from Frankfort on the Maine. 



FAUNE ENTOMOLOGIQUE FRANCAISE, ou 



Description des Insectes qui se trouvent en France 



COLEOPTERES. PAR LEON FAIRMAIRE ET LE Dr. 



A. Laboulbene. Paris: Deyrolle, Rue de la Mon- 



naie, 19. 



The third livraison of this work has appeared this summer ; we 

 are expecting a supply of it, but it has not yet come to hand, and 

 therefore we can do no more than announce its publication. 



NATURGESCHICHTE DER INSECTEN 

 DEUTSCHLANDS ; begonnen von Dr. W. F. Erich- 

 son, FORTGESETZT Y01V Dr. H. SCHAUM, G. KrAATZ, 



und H. Von Kiesenwetter. Erste Abtheilung — 

 Coleoptera. 



Mr. Janson has obliged me with the following notice of this 

 work. 



" Arrangements having been entered into with Dr. Schaum and 

 MM. Kraatz i and Von Kiesenwetter, to continue this important 

 work so ably commenced by the late Dr. Erichson, but suspended 

 since his lamented decease in 1848, these gentlemen appear to 

 have entered on their labours in earnest. 



" Dr. Schaum has undertaken the earlier families, and the first 

 part of the volume devoted to them (vol. i.), containing the 

 ' Cicindeletas,' and a portion of the ' Carabici/ issued from the 

 press in the summer. 



" Of vol. ii., entrusted to Herr Kraatz, and comprising the 



