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The seventh volume of ‘ Skandinaviens Coleoptera’ by C.G. Thom- 
son brings us down to the Scolytide: we must all regret that so much 
of this excellent work as is written in Swedish should be lost to us 
by the use of that language. 
M. Snellen van Vollenhoven’s ‘ Nederlandsche Insecten,’ a con- 
tinuation of Sepp’s well-known work, has reached the second volume : 
eight livraisons have appeared during the year. 
M. Henri Deyrolle’s ‘ Description des Buprestides de la Malaisie 
recueillis par M. Wallace’ is a handsome volume, enumerating and 
describing not less than 355 species of this family. Many of the 
larger genera and some of the sub-families are preceded by analytical 
tables, which considerably facilitate their examination. Most of the 
new genera are founded on characters which are not generally ad- 
mitted to have any beyond a specific or sectional value ; nevertheless 
they appear to form good groups. 
In foreign periodicals for 1865 the following are amongst the more 
‘important and systematic papers :— 
In the ‘ Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Mos- 
00 : — 
Radochkoffsky (Octave), “ Les Mutilles Russes,” with 3 coloured 
plates. Thirty-six species are described and figured. 
Motschulsky (Victor), ‘Un Genre nouveau de Staphylinides.” 
(Renardia,* near Boreaphilus, from New York). The same 
author has numerous descriptions of Carabide collected by 
himself in his travels. 
Solsky (8.), ‘‘ Descriptions de quelques nouvelles espéces de Sta- 
phylinides,” pp. 433—451. 
In the “ Mémoires de l’Académie de St. Petersbourg,” Tome viii. 
4 No. 1 :— 
| Bremer (Otto), “ Lepidoptera Oest-Sibiriens, insbesondere des 
Amur-landes,” a convenient digest, illustrated by 8 well-exe- 
cuted coloured plates. 
In the ‘ Tijdschrift voor Entomologie :’— 
Van Vollenhoven (S. C. Snellen) ; descriptions of species of 
Buprestide, Scutellerida and Achetide ; one of each. 
In the ‘ Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle 
de Genéve :— 
Humbert (A.), ‘‘ Myriapodes de Ceylon,” pp. 1—62 and 5 plates 
(Ato). 
* Has this insect anything to do with the Staphylinide ? 
