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The first portion of a work ' containing the descriptions of the 

 Voleoptera found in the neighbourhood of the Scottish capital has 

 been published. The first part of the entomological portion of the 

 * Naturalist's Library ' of 8ir Wni. Jardine is in the press, in which 

 a. great variety of showy Coleoptera are figured". And the publi- 

 cation of Sturm's valuable little ' Deutschlands Insecten Fauna' has 

 recently been recommenced. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope has described, not only in our own Trans- 

 actions, but also in those of the Zoological Society, numerous remark- 

 able novelties belonging to this order. He has likewise published 

 an account of the various species of Beetles found in mummies ^ ; 

 •whilst Mr. Waterhouse has laid before the Society the descriptions of 

 numerous Coleopterous larv8e, a branch of the subject of the highest 

 interest. Mr. S. S. Sanders has also described various remarkable 

 ■exotic Coleoptera at one of our meetings, belonging to various genera. 



Cai-abidce. — Following in the steps of the Baron DeJean, the com- 

 pletion of whose descriptions of the Carabidxe and Cicitidelidce* has 

 recently taken place, we find Messrs. Gorj-^, Laporte'', BruUe^, Klug**, 

 and Chevrolat^ gi^'i'ig descriptions of supplementary species of the 

 same family, whilst descriptions of the Carahida of New Holland may 

 shortly be expected from the pen of Mr. G. R. Gray. Mr. Say has 

 also published a I'ecent memoir upon the American species of these 

 two families 'o. Descriptions and figures of the European species of these 

 families are in course of publication l)y Dejean and Boisduval ". Zim- 

 menuan also has published two monographs upon Zahrus and Amara 



' Entomologia Edinensis. By James Wilson, F.R.S., and Rev. James Duncan. 

 8vo. Edinburgh, 1834. 



■^ Since this Report was read, this work has been published with the title 'Th^ 

 Natural History of" Beetles, illustrated by thirty-two plates, numerous wood-cuts; 

 with memoir and portrait of Ray. By James Duncan, iVT.W.S. Edinburgh, 1835.' 



2 In the History of Egyptian Mummies, &c. By Thomas Jos. Pettigrew, F.R.S., 

 Jtr. London, 1834. 4to. With plates. 



* Species general des Coleopteres de la Collection de M. le Conite DeJean. Paris, 

 8vo, Vol. 1—5, 1825—1831. 



* Centurie de Carabiques nouveaux. Par M. Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. Paris, Vol. II. 

 p. 168. 



* Etudes Entomologiqnes, ou Descriptions d'Insectes nouveaux et Observations sur 

 leurs Synonymes. Par M. De Laporte. \" et 2"^ Livraisons. Paris^ 1834—1835. 

 8vo. With Plates. 



' Observations Critiques sur la Nomenclature des Carabiques in Silbermann's 

 Revue Entomologique, Livr. 9 ; and in the 4th Vol. of Histoire Naturelle des In- 

 sectes. Par Messrs. Audouin and Brulle. 8vo. With an atlas of plates. Paris, 

 Pillot, 1834. 



" Jahrbucher der Insectenkunde, von Dr. Fr. Klug. Erster band, 1834. 8vo. 

 296 pp. With 2 coloured plates. 



' Coleopteres du Mexique. Par A. Chevrolat. 2nd Fascicule, 1834. Strasbourg, 

 12mo. 



10 Descriptions of some new North American Insects, and observations on some 

 already described. By Thomas Say, in the 4th Volume of the Transactions of the 

 American Philosophical Society, New Series. 



^' {oonographie et Histoire Naturelle des Coleopteres d'Europc. Paris, 8vo. With 

 plates. Published in Livraisons 1827—1835. 



