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to avail itself of the well-known accuracy and ability of such an 

 illustrator of world-wide repute. 



A ' Handbook of the Coleoptera of Great Britain and Ireland,' 

 in two octavo volumes, has lately been published by Mr. Herbert 

 E. Cox, containing short descriptions from authentic sources of 

 all the hitherto-recorded species of British beetles ; each tribe, 

 family, and genus, being conveniently tabulated, and its prominent 

 characters indicated. In constituting two primary sections of 

 normal and aberrant Coleoptera, the latter being confined to the 

 Stylopidee, as differing in the. development of the prothorax, 

 other changes have been effected, whereby the Erotyhdse, Cocci- 

 nellidae, and Endomychidse, have been associated with the 

 Clavicornia ; the Phytophaga (including the Bruchidee) occupying 

 an intermediate position between the Ehynchophora and the 

 Longicornia, followed by the Heteromera, placed at the end of 

 the "normal" section, terminating with the Ehipiphoridte, 

 Meloidffi, and CEdemerid^e. With respect to the latter, the 

 lignivorous habits of the larva would seem to point to a greater 

 affinity with some of the other Heteromera, wherewith they were 

 formerly associated by Latreille ; the position here assigned to 

 them disturbing the natural associations existing between the 

 EhipiphoridEe, the Meloid^e, and the Stylopidse, coinciding in 

 parasitic habits and in their derivation from pediculiform 

 primitive larvae. 



The present descriptive compendium, printed in excellent type, 

 will be deservedly welcomed and appreciated by all Coleopterists 

 in this country, as supplying a want which has long been expe- 

 rienced for the ready determination of many genera and species 

 whose definitions are widely dispersed among works often little 



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Two parts of a work in quarto, commenced long since, bearing 

 the title of 'Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Krebus and 

 Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Koss, 

 during the years 1839 to 1843,' and edited by Dr John K.ch^-dson 

 and 5r. John Edward Gray, have been completed during last 

 year, being the entomological portion of the senes (Nos. XIA. 



"Th?fiL of these parts is accompanied by ten l''"';-' ™™- 

 orders of insects ; these plates having been P'-^P» f ■ ^" ^ 

 them issued, together with a portion of the present lette.piess. 



