Bibliographical Notice. 81 



the male of Harpalus ruhripes^ but distinguishable at once 

 from all members of the true Harpalina3 group by the bisetose 

 penultimate joint of the labial palpi and the tapering and 

 pointed apices of the terminal joints of both labial and max- 

 IHary palpi. The upper surface is glossy and relucent, and 

 im punctate, except the base of the thorax, which is covered 

 with minute separate punctures. The frontal foveas (linear 

 and reaching the eye, as in the rest of the genus) are very 

 deep, as Is also the transverse suture separating tlie forehead 

 irom the epistome. The elytra are convex, moderate, sinuate 

 near the tip, and fm-nlshed with a scutellar striole. The 

 male has a punctured fovea in the middle (towards the base) 

 of the ilrst ventral segment, as in most other species of the 

 genus. 



[To be continued.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria per familias et genera et species 

 (lescripta a Gustavo Budde-Lund. Havnioe : 1885. Svo. 

 Pp. 319. 



The publication of this work forms an era in the bibliography of 

 terrestrial Isopod Crustacea. Specialists acqiiainted with the author's 

 writings and style of description have for six years been looking 

 forward to its appearance ; and it is not likely to disappoint their 

 expectations. Mr. Budde-Lund's identifications of species described 

 by other naturalists are occasionally open to revision. In most 

 instances this is due to their descriptions being insufficiently de- 

 tailed and his failure to obtain access to the typical specimens ; but 

 in one case, perhaps in more than one, he has gone astray through 

 quoting a citation at second hand, instead of looking np the refer- 

 ence. The notes published in the 'Annals' for November and 

 December 1SS2 were apparently not seen by him until his Addita- 

 menta were in hand, and consequently the misnomers exposed in 

 those numbers still obtain currency ; but as he holds English authors 

 on this order in very slight esteem, he may have deemed the correc- 

 tions untrustworthy. His list of works cited is tolerably complete, 

 the omissions being mostly unimportant. 



Mr. Buddc-Lund recognizes four families of woodlice : — Ouisci, 

 Ligiai, Tylidcs, and Syspastida3. 



The Onisci comprise fourteen well-established genera arranged in 

 two sections — the Armadilloidea with eight genera, and the Onis- 

 coidea with six — besides two or three genera referred to as unknown 

 to the author. Of the fourteen genera specified three are gen. uov., 



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