526 Bibliographical Notices. 



Homoptera Andina : Die Zikaden des Kordillerengehictes von Sild- 

 amerikfi. nach Systematik und Verhreitung, von A. Jacobi. — 

 I. Cicadidce. (Abhandlungen und Berichte des Konigl. Zoologischen 

 und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden.) 

 liand xi. (5). 19U7. 4to. Pp. 28. 



The present work offers us a synopsis of the Cicadidae of all the 

 Pacific States of South America, from the southern limits of the 

 fauna included in the ' Fauna Boreali-Americana ' to Chile in the 

 south, and to Venezuela and the Upper Amazon districts on the 

 east. 



Seventy-two species are enumerated in the present work, of 

 which no less than forty-four are figured (occasionally with additional 

 details) on the large double plate accompanying the paper. Eight 

 species are represented in colour, the rest being plain, and seven 

 species are described as new. New species, or those which have 

 been insuificiently described, are noticed at length, but the others 

 often very briefly. On p. 5 a useful diagram of neuration &c. is 

 given according to the system of Stal. Limited faunistic works 

 like the present, especially when well illustrated, are of great value 

 in extending our knowledge of the details of a subject so vast as 

 Entomology. W. E. K. 



Precis des Caracieres generiques des Insectes, disposes dans un ordre 

 naturel par le Citoijen LatreilU. A Paris, chez Prevot, Libraire, 

 Quai des Augustins, et a Brive, chez F. Bourdeaux, Imprimeur 

 Libraire. A Brive, de I'lmprimerie des F. Bourdeaux, au 5 de 

 la R. [1796]. Pp. xiv, 208. Imprime a 200 Exemplaires pour 

 A. Hermann, mdccccvii. 



We alluded recently to a work published on the early life of the 

 great French entomologist Latreille, who stood in a somewhat 

 similar relationship to Cuvier as that occupied by Fabricius towards 

 Linne, Latreille was born in 1762, and died in 1833. After his 

 almost miraculous escape from death during the early days of the 

 llevolution he devoted himself to entomology with great ardour, 

 74 entries (from 1792 onwards) figuring in Hagen's ' Bibliotheca 

 Entomologica ' under his name. The work before us is a reprint of 

 one of the rarest of entomological books, of which only a few copies 

 are known to be in existence ; and it is also the earliest of the 

 important series of books on systematic entomology which made 

 Latreille's name famous. It includes the characters in French of 

 all the genera of Insects, Arachnida, Crustacea, and Myriopoda, 

 divided into 14 Orders. Xo species are mentioned, and no types 

 are assigned even to new genera ; but this omission was fully 

 rectified by the publication (1802-1805) of the largest and most 

 valuable of Latreille's works, his great ' Histoire naturelle, generale 

 et particuliere, des Crustaces et des Insectes,' in 14 volumes. We 

 are glad that the numerous entomological libraries which do not 

 possess the ' Precis ' will now be able to place at least the reprint on 

 their shelves. 



