380 BihliograjMcal Notices. 



the thickness of the head), the bases of the antennae are often pro- 

 tected by the prominent corners of the forehead, the antennae geni- 

 culated, and two foveoe antennales provided. Taking all this into 

 consideration. Prof. Schjodte has, in the * Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Copenhagen ' {loc. cit.), proposed the following distribu- 

 tion of Carahi : — 



I. Epimera mesothoracica coxas inferius attingentia. 



A. Epimera metathoracica appendice exteriori nulla, 



1. Antennae frontales. 



1. Cicindelini. 



2. Antennce ponc mandibulas genis insertse. 



a. Antenna? scrobiculis hand recipiendse, basi detecta;. 



2. Carabini (inclus. Elaphrini cum gen. Loricera, Latr., et Miga- 

 dops, Wath.). 



b. Antennae scrobiculis rccipiendae, sa;pissime fractae. 



* Antenuaj basi detectoj. Tibia; inermes (mentum concretum ; 

 epimera mesothoracica concreta). 



3. Siagonini {Siagona, Enceladus). 



** Antenna; basi lamina frontali supertectae. Tibia; anticse pal- 

 mata;. 



4. Scaritini. 



B. Epimera metathoracica appendice exteriori instructa. 



a. Antennae basi lamina frontali supertectae, scrobiculis recipiendae. 



Tibiae anticae integrae. 



5. Hiletini (type Hiletus, Naturh. Tidsskr. I. c). 



b. Antennae basi detectae, scrobiculis hand recipiendae. Tibiae antica3 



emarginatae. 



6. Ozaenini (types Ozcena, Myrtropomus, Mormolyce). 



II. Epimera mesothoracica coxas inferius haud attin- 

 gentia. 

 Tribus Caraborum ceterae. 



It is to be hoped that Prof. Schjodte will find an opportunity for 

 carrying out in greater detail these new ideas, which certainly seem 

 to promise very useful systematic results. 



To return to the volume before us : it should be noticed that it 

 contains four excellent plates illustrating a paper by the editor on 

 the metamorphoses of Coleoptera, with drawings and analyses of the 

 larvae of Gyrinus marinus, liydroiis aterrimus, Hydrophilus cara- 

 bdidesy Hydrohius fuscijjeSy PJiilhydrus testaceusy and Berosus spi- 

 nosus. In the following part this treatise will be continued, and we 

 shall then have an opportunity for a few observations on it. 



The North -Atlantic Sea-bed; comprising a Diary of the Voyage on 

 board II. M.S. Bulldog^ in 1860, a7id Observations on the Pre- 

 sence of Animal Life, and the Formation and Nature of Organic 

 Deposits, at great Depths in the Ocean. By G.C.Wallich,M.D., 

 P.L.S., F.G.S. &c. Part I. 4to. London: Van Voorst, 1862. 

 In this work Dr. Wallich, who held the office of Naturalist to the 

 Expedition dispatched in 1860 to survey the proposed telegraphic 

 route between this country and America, gives us the results of his 

 investigations into the natural history of the portion of the sea-bed 



