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  COLEOPTERA. 
  

  

  CoLEOPTEUA 
  IN 
  GENERAL. 
  — 
  The 
  2ud 
  volumc 
  of 
  ihe 
  Coleopterous 
  porlion 
  of 
  M. 
  

   Cbenu's 
  useful 
  ' 
  Encyclopedia 
  d'Hist. 
  Nat.' 
  has 
  appeared, 
  with 
  very 
  numerous 
  figures. 
  

  

  The 
  ' 
  Catalogus 
  Coleoplerorum 
  Europae,' 
  edited 
  hy 
  Dr. 
  Schaum, 
  and 
  published 
  by 
  

   the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  Stettin, 
  is 
  far 
  more 
  complete 
  than 
  any 
  previously 
  pub- 
  

   lished. 
  The 
  Ural 
  Mountains 
  are 
  regarded 
  as 
  the 
  eastern 
  limits 
  of 
  Europe, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Algerine 
  species 
  are 
  not 
  included, 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  before 
  in 
  the 
  French 
  catalogues. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Wollaston 
  has 
  published 
  an 
  interesting 
  article 
  on 
  the 
  geographical 
  distribu- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  Coleojitera 
  of 
  the 
  West 
  of 
  England, 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist' 
  for 
  October, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Captain 
  Godart 
  has 
  published 
  some 
  remarks 
  on 
  the 
  specific 
  distinction 
  of 
  several 
  

   Cetoniae 
  and 
  Chrysomelae, 
  as 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  structure 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  organs 
  of 
  genera- 
  

   tion, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1851, 
  4 
  trim.) 
  ; 
  also 
  on 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Geotrupes, 
  as 
  de- 
  

   fined 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  characters, 
  (Ibid. 
  1852, 
  x.) 
  

  

  Herr 
  Kiesenwetter 
  has 
  continued 
  his 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  collected 
  by 
  him- 
  

   self 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  of 
  France 
  and 
  Catalonia, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1851, 
  trim. 
  4). 
  A 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  new 
  species 
  are 
  described, 
  especially 
  amongst 
  the 
  Telephoridae 
  and 
  Curculioni- 
  

   dae, 
  and 
  a 
  new 
  genus 
  (Trotomma 
  pubescens), 
  established 
  among 
  the 
  Serropalpi. 
  

  

  A 
  critical 
  revision 
  of 
  Erichson's 
  Naturgesch. 
  Kafer 
  Deutschl. 
  by 
  Motschoulsky, 
  is 
  

   given 
  in 
  the 
  Bull. 
  Soc. 
  Natur. 
  Moscow, 
  1851, 
  pt. 
  3. 
  An 
  enumeration 
  of 
  new 
  species 
  

   of 
  Coleoptera 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  author, 
  (Ibid. 
  pt. 
  4). 
  

  

  Notes 
  upon 
  some 
  Austrian 
  beetles 
  are 
  given 
  by 
  Hampe 
  in 
  the 
  Verhandl. 
  Zool. 
  Bot. 
  

   Ver. 
  Vienna, 
  Bd. 
  1. 
  

  

  A 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  Germany, 
  indicating 
  the 
  localities 
  of 
  each 
  species, 
  by 
  

   Gustav 
  Zebe, 
  is 
  commenced 
  in 
  the 
  Entom. 
  Zeitung 
  of 
  Stettin 
  for 
  April, 
  1852, 
  and 
  is 
  

   continued 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  numbers. 
  

  

  A 
  notice 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Bad-Ems, 
  is 
  published 
  by 
  Fa- 
  

   braeus 
  in 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Zeit. 
  of 
  Stettin, 
  June, 
  1852. 
  

  

  Diagnoses 
  of 
  eight 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Coleoptera, 
  and 
  a 
  description 
  of 
  Adelops 
  Khe- 
  

   venhuUeri 
  (one 
  of 
  the 
  blind 
  cavern-beetles), 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  Miiller 
  in 
  the 
  Verhandl. 
  Zool. 
  

   Bot. 
  Ver. 
  Vienna, 
  Bd. 
  1. 
  

  

  A 
  notice 
  by 
  Schener 
  on 
  new 
  Austrian 
  Coleoptera, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  genera 
  Leptoderus 
  

   and 
  Cymindis, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Verhandl. 
  Zool. 
  Bot. 
  Ver. 
  Vienna, 
  Bd. 
  1. 
  

  

  An 
  article 
  on 
  the 
  cavern-insects 
  of 
  Carniola, 
  with 
  descriptions 
  of 
  two 
  new 
  species 
  

   of 
  Leptoderus, 
  is 
  published 
  by 
  Schmidt 
  in 
  the 
  Laibacher 
  Zeitung, 
  No. 
  146 
  (August 
  4, 
  

   1852), 
  and 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  Entomol. 
  Zeit. 
  Stet. 
  Nov. 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Mannerheim 
  on 
  rare 
  Finnland 
  Coleoptera, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  Entomol. 
  

   Zeit. 
  Stett. 
  for 
  July, 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  Signer 
  Passerini 
  on 
  Bostrichus 
  Fici, 
  Apate 
  sex-dentata, 
  Morimus 
  

   lugubris, 
  Nemosoma 
  elongata, 
  Lachnea 
  rufipennis, 
  and 
  other 
  species 
  injurious 
  to 
  the 
  

   fig, 
  together 
  with 
  Denops 
  personatus 
  (one 
  of 
  the 
  Cleridie), 
  which 
  was 
  also 
  discovered 
  

   in 
  all 
  its 
  states 
  in 
  burrows 
  of 
  the 
  branches 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  tree, 
  appears 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Atti 
  dell 
  

   Acad. 
  d. 
  Georgofili,' 
  1851. 
  

  

  Two 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Histeridce 
  from 
  Italy 
  and 
  the 
  Levant, 
  and 
  one 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  

   Cryptocephalus 
  from 
  Sardinia, 
  have 
  been 
  described 
  by 
  M. 
  Truqui, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  

   France, 
  1852, 
  1 
  trim.) 
  

  

  Twenty-five 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Coleoptera, 
  of 
  different 
  families, 
  natives 
  of 
  the 
  South 
  of 
  

   Europe 
  and 
  the 
  North 
  of 
  Africa, 
  including 
  a 
  remarkable 
  blind 
  genus 
  of 
  Psclaphidae 
  

  

  