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longer find any European insect. It is from those burning 

 regions that the largest species of the genus Goliath of La-, 

 marck proceeds ; the others come from South America and 

 Java. The colony of the Cape of Good Hope, especially, 

 abounds in species of the genus Atithia and Braehycera. In 

 the same quarter of the globe, are found numerous lepidoptera, 

 which constitute peculiar sections. 



All the successions of species take place gradually from 

 west to east, and vice versa. Many of those which are found 

 in Normandy and Britanny, are also to be met with in the 

 southern parts of England. The departments situated on 

 the left bank of the Rhine to the north, are in this respect 

 similar to the neighbouring provinces of Germany, but only 

 as to a small portion of species. Some insects of the Levant 

 appear to have travelled westward, and established them- 

 selves in the neighbourhood of Vienna and throughout the 

 Austrian territory ; such are the cantharis orientalis^ &c. 

 M. Latreille is of opinion, that the insects of Asia Minor, 

 Syria, Persia, &c., though closely allied to those of the south 

 of Europe, are nevertheless, for the most part, specifically dis- 

 tinct. He also thinks similarly respecting those of southern 

 Russia, and of the Crimea. The arachnida and insects of 

 the coast of Coromandel, of Bengal, of southern China, and 

 even of Thibet, exhibit very great inter-relations, but they 

 are absolutely distinct from those of Europe, though 

 for the most part they may be classed in the same 

 genera, and in some of the African genera. No genera 

 which nature appears to have peculiarly allocated in the 

 southern and western parts of the ancient continent, such 

 as the graphipfera, &c., are to be found there ; some 

 species of braehycera, according to Fabricius, are to be found 

 in the East Indies ; but this assertion M. Latreille does not 

 appear to consider as well-founded. The genus anthia is 



