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Thus.it is with the Supreme Artist. His plan for all eternity is 

 present to His thought ; He will execute the work in one day, or 

 in a thousand ages. Time is nothing to Him ; the work is con- 

 ceived, it is created, and each of its parts is only the realization 

 of the creative thought and its pre-determined development in 

 time and space. ' The more we advance in the study of nature,' 

 says Oswald Heer,* ' the more profound also is our conviction 

 that belief in an Almighty Creator and a Divine wisdom, Who 

 has created the heavens and the earth according to an eternal 

 and pre-conceived plan, can alone solve the enigmas of nature, as 

 well as those of human life. Let us still erect statues to men who 

 have been useful to their fellow-creatures, and have distinguished 

 themselves by their genius ; but let us not forget what we owe to 

 Him Who has placed marvels in each grain of sand, a world in 

 every drop of water.' " 



LIST OF BEETLES (Colcoptera) 



collected by me in Brazil. All the insects were taken in the 

 province of Minas, except those marked *, which came from the 

 province of Rio de Janeiro and the neighbourhood. 



The nomenclature is from specimens in the collection of the 

 British Museum, at the Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington; London. 



The classification is from the " Histoire Naturelle des Insects, 

 Genera des Coldopteres "... par M. Th. Lacordaire, Paris, 1854. 

 Twelve vols. I have also carefully examined the " Catalogus 

 Coleopterorum," by Dr. Gemminger and B. de Harold, Munich, 



1869-1876. 



Order. COLEOPTERA. 



Family CICINDELID^E. 

 Sub-fam. Megacephalida, Lac. 

 Oxycheila, Dej. 

 tristis,* Fair. 



Fam. CARABID^E. 

 Sub-fam. Lebiidce, Lac. 

 Calleida, Dej. 



decora (?) P'abr. 



Cymindis, Latr. 



sp. 

 Lebia, Latr. 



bifasciata, Dej. 



Sub-fam. Scaritida, Lac. 

 Scarites, Fabr. 



rugicollis, Dej. 

 corvinus, Dej. 



" Le Monde Primitif, 1876." 



