412 BihliograpMcal Notice. 



From the Javan M. rhinojjhyllus the present species differs 

 in the small amount of sexual differentiation it has undergone 

 (the pronotum being hornless, and the colour and general 

 form the same in both sexes, and the azygous horn on the 

 front of the clypeus in the male being short and inconspicu- 

 ous), in having the mesosternal process directed forwards 

 instead of downwards, in colour, in its slenderer form, and 

 probably also in the crown of the head in the male being pro- 

 duced into a bilobed horizontal plate-like process overhanging 

 the clypeus. 



Hab. The specimen was presented to me several years ago 

 by my friend and colleague Mr. Geoffrey Nevile, who had 

 received it from Mr. W. Robert, of the Topographical Survey 

 of India, by whom it was captured in the Naga hills, one of 

 the hill-ranges of North-eastern India. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII. Figs. A-C. 



Fig. A. Myderistes microphi/Uus, nat. size. 

 JFig. B. Upper view of the head, enlarged. 



Fig. C. Outline of the extremity of the clypeus, yiewed from below ; drawn 

 to scale under a Ross's 3-incli. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Manual of tlie Nciv- Zeal and Coleoptera. By Capt. Thomas Begun. 

 Published by command. Wellington : James Hughes. 1880. 



A STOUT volume of 640 pages on the beetles of New Zealand, pub- 

 lished at the expense of the local government, marks an era in the 

 scientific history of the colonies. If we except Ceylon, no other 

 British possession has shown itself so far above " the miserable 

 theory of money on the lodger being the primary rule for empires, 

 or for any higher entity than city-owls and their mice-catching." 



Capt. Broun has laboured under immense difficulties. With few 

 books and no opportunity of comparing his "new species," he has 

 given very fair descriptions (beyond, indeed, the European average) 

 of such as he believes to be undescribed. The author, moreover, 

 living in the island of Kawau, had not even an opportunity of re- 

 vising the proof-sheets of his work, although this has been ably 

 done for him ; and, as might be expected, he has not been able to 

 satisfy himself as to the generic location of many of his species, nor 

 has he always been fortunate in the names he has applied to them. 

 We are sorry Dr. Hector, who appears to have seen the work 

 through the press, did not suggest to Capt. Broun to change them. 



The plan of the writer has been to give the original descriptions 

 of various authors ; and these are generally supplemented by re- 



