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the ' Transactions of the Royal Society of Sciences of Vienna,' by Kollar and Redten- 

 bacher. 



Dr. Roth has published a descriptive list of 100 new species of Coleoptera from 

 Abyssinia, in the continuation of Wiegmann's ' Archives.' 



The 2nd volume of the ' Coleopterous Insects of Caffraria,' described by Bohemann, 

 has appeared, comprising 287 new and 54 previously described species, belonging to 

 the families Buprestidae (93 species, 72 new), Elateridas, the Malacoderms, Cleridae 

 (37 species, 31 new), Ptinidas, Clavicorns and Hydrophilida&. 



Signor Bertolini has published a series of papers on the Coleoptera of Mozam- 

 bique, containing 81 species (22 new), with figures of the more remarkable species, in 

 the ' Memoirs of the Royal Society of Bologna.' 



Descriptions of 31 new species of Coleoptera, of various families, natives of Mada- 

 gascar, including new species of Stenotarsia and Pogonotarsus, 10 species of Tetra- 

 phyllus and 5 of Oryctes, have been published by Dr. Coquerel, in the 'Revue Zoolo- 

 gique,' 1851, p. 86. 



The Coleoptera of Lake Superior have been described by Dr. Leconte, consisting 

 of 152 new species, together with an extensive list of already described species, in 

 Professor Agassiz's work on Lake Superior (Boston, 1850), accompanied by notes on 

 their geographical distribution. 



M. L. Fairmaire has described two new species of Coleoptera from Venezuela, — 

 Hyperantha hasmorrhoa (Buprestidse) and Alurnus 8-punctatus (Hispidas), with notes 

 on Arescus monoceros, Oliv. (Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 350). 



Mr. Newman has described a number of Coleoptera from New Holland (Zool. 

 cxxviii., cxxxiii., clxxix.), some of which however appear to have been previously de- 

 scribed by Dr. Germar, in the ' Linnaea Entomologica.' 



M. Perris has described and figured the transformations of the following Coleo- 

 ptera, (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ix. 39) ; Triphyllus punctatus, Fair., the larva of which 

 lives in the Boletus named Fistulina hepatica ; Diphyllus lunatus, the larva of which 

 feeds upon Sphseria concentrica ; Agathidium seminulum, the larva and perfect in- 

 sect of which feed upon the subcortical Fungus called Trichia cinnabarina ; and Eu- 

 cinetus (Nycteus, Latr.) meridionalis, also found in both states feeding on the byssus 

 and mycelium growing under decaying wood. 



Cicindelid^:. 



M. Gehin has published the first part of a ' Catalogue des Coleopteres' in his own 

 collection, containing the Cicindelidas, (Metz, 1851). 



A note on the dentition of the tiger beetles, was communicated by myself to the 

 Zoological Society, on the 24th of June, 1851. 



Mr. Tatum has described four new exotic Cicindelidse, and an Indian Carabus, 

 in the Ann. Nat. Hist. viii. 49. 



CaRABID.SE. 



A remarkable new species of Carabus from Algeria, having the prothorax regularly 

 obcordate, has been described by M. Lucas, (Rev. Zool. 1850, p. 504). 



A new fossil species of Carabus from Aix, in Provence, has been described by M. 

 Barthelemy, (Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 203). 



A paper of considerable length, containing descriptions of new, and revisions of 



