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' Staphylinii,' etc. the first and second parts made their appearance 

 simultaneously, and at the same period as the foregoing. 



" Of Volume iv., by Herr Von Kiesenwetter, containing the 

 ' Malacodermi/ etc., we look daily for the publication of the first 

 instalment. 



"The third volume, by Dr. Erichson, and on which the five 

 concluding years of the brief but memorable career of the illustrious 

 author were employed, was published in 1848 : it contains the 

 families ' Scaphidilia, Trichopterygia, Anisotomida?, Phalacrides, 

 Nitidulariae, Colydii, Cucujipes, Cryptophagides, Mycetophagides, 

 Byrrhii, Georyssi, Parnidse, Heteroceridas and Scarabaeides.' 



"This work, as its title indicates, is a Natural History of the Co- 

 leopterous Insects of Germany, and furnishes the student not only 

 with full and careful descriptions of the genera and species indige- 

 nous to that country, together with an account of their earlier stages, 

 physiology and habits, but also with much important information 

 relative to those of other and distant lands. 



" The high standing in the scientific world of the gentlemen 

 engaged on this work renders any recommendation on our part 

 superfluous; and the fact that, with a very few exceptions, all the 

 species of Coleoptera found in this country are known as in- 

 habitants of Germany likewise, will make it obvious to those oc- 

 cupied in investigating the British Coleoptera, that this is of all others 

 the book which they should adopt as their guide and vade inecuin, 

 at all events until a new descriptive treatise in their own language 

 can be elicited from our little band of working Coleopterists." 



