5i COLEOPTERA. 



lan'ze the numerous papers and scattered notices contained in 

 the Transactions of the different foreign Entomological So- 

 cieties) I may mention the commencement of the second half 

 of vol. i. of the " Insecten Deutschlands," containing the 

 Hydradephaga, originally the work of the late Prof. H. 

 Schaum, but published after his decease, and long out of its 

 place in the series, under the editorship of Herr von Kiesen- 

 wetter, who appears to be exclusively answerable for the 

 Gyrinidce. It is to be hoped that those among us who have 

 been accustomed to complain of the want of a text-book for 

 this obscure group will now set to work, clear up their 

 doubts, and increase our lists by reliable species. The com- 

 pleting parts of the original scheme of Thomson's " Skandi- 

 naviensColeoptera" have also duly come to light; followed by 

 the first instalment of a supplementary series of very copious 

 additions, revisions, tabulations and corrections. It is need- 

 less to say more of this work at present, as considerable 

 results from its publication, with regard to our Fauna, will be 

 noticed in the following pages. 



Herr Geoi'g Seidlitz has (Bei'lin. Ent. Zeit., xii, 1868, 

 Beiheft) revised the European Otiorhynchides sensu stricto; 

 and his work will be found a worthy pendant to that of 

 Stierlin, and useful to British Coleopterists. 



The introductory portion of M. Fauvel's '* Faune Gallo- 

 Rhenane " (which can hardly fail to find a certain amount of 

 favour here, seeing how the *^ Faune Fran9aise " of Fairmaire 

 and Laboulbene has been adopted) has very recently been 

 published, but has, as yet, not reached a stage likely to 

 interest English Coleopterists. It is elaborated with the care 

 and superfluity of detail characteristic of the best French 

 scientific works; being accompanied by elegant maps, ex- 

 hausting all possible tabulations of isothermal lines, limits 

 of particular vegetation, &c., and containing almost every- 

 thing relating to French and Rhenish Coleoptera, from the 



