34 COLEOPTERA. 



And how can it be proved that Linnaeus's aipreus was not 

 Sturm's species? Baron Chaudoir (L'Abeille, v, 220) con- 

 siders that probably it was. 



Thomson (Opusc. Ent., fasc. ii and iii) has determined 

 and recorded Momalota incognita, and H. canescens, Sharp, 

 from Sweden; my Elater coccinatus has been recorded 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 4e. ser., 1871, Bull. Ixiii) by M. Bedel 

 as taken by himself and M. Grouvelle in oaks, in the forest 

 of Fontainebleau; and, as will be seen from a subsequent 

 notice, Sitones ononidis, Sharp, has also been recorded from 

 France. 



As regards British Coleopterists, certainly the most useful 

 separate publication during the past year is Dr. Sharp's 

 "Catalogue of British Coleoptera" (E. W. Janson, 28 

 Museum St.; July 1, 1871), which supplies a v.ant for some 

 time felt by all workers in this country, and which deserves 

 a special analysis. Mr. Waterhouse's Catalogue having long 

 ago fulfilled its original purpose of affording a reliable starting- 

 point for future operations, there has been of late years 

 nothing worthy of reference but the second edition of Mr. 

 Crotch's Catalogue, to embody the very numerous additions 

 now so constantly made to the list of the British Coleopterous 

 Fauna. But the last-mentioned work is now upwards of 

 live years old ; and, owing to its want of authors' names, and 

 to its arrangement being almost entirely at variance with that 

 to which Entomologists in this country have been accustomed, 

 has not been of so much general service as could have been 

 desired. 



Dr. Sharp's Catalogue, however, will be found satisfactory 

 in both these respects (though authors' names are not supplied 

 to the genera), and, apart from some orthographic discre- 

 pancies and other errors (corrected, as to these latter, for the 

 most part in the work itself, and, as to the more important of 



