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nature, and to see whether any real material towards the final solution 

 of the great question of the origin of species can be derived there- 

 from. Mr. Wollaston, in accordance with his known views, holds 

 that these changes (if such have taken place) will have been effected 

 rapidly. Whatever conclusion may be arrived at upon this subject, 

 no one wUl doubt that in his present work and its companion, the 

 ' Coleoptera Atlantidum,' Mr. Wollaston has furnished a most im- 

 portant contribution to philosophical zoology. 



Naturhistorislc Tidsshrift {Journal of Natural History), edited by 

 Professor J. C. Schiodte, at Copenhagen. Third Series, vols. iii. 

 & iv. (1865-1867), 568 pages with 15 plates, and 552 pages with 

 22 plates. 



J. C. Schiodte on Phthiriasis ; on the genus Stalita ; on the Classification 

 of Buprestes and Elateres; on some Tunnelling Coleoptera; on the 

 Structure of the Mouth in Sucking Crustacea, and on the Metamor- 

 phoses of Coleoptera. — Dr. R. Bergh, Contributions to a Monogi-aph of 

 Pleurophyllididfe. — Dr. V. Bergsoe on Philichthys Xiphicp, St. ; on the 

 Italian Tarantula and Tarantism. — Dr. Bergscde and Dr. Meinert on 

 the Danish Species of Geoj)hili. — Dr. Meinert on Campodefe ; on 

 Miastor metraloas (three articles). — M. Fischer on the Egg of Caryo- 

 catactes yuttatiis ; ou Larvs Rossii and on Syrrliaptes paradoxus. — M. 

 Strom ou the Danish Species of Oryijia ; List of Danish Lepidoptera. 



The third and fourth volumes of this periodical, which have just 

 been completed, are in every way worthy of their predecessors, 

 which were noticed in the ' Annals ' (ser. 3. vol. xv. p. 475). They 

 consist entirely of original papers by Danish naturalists, and are 

 admirably illustrated by engraved plates. Several of the papers 

 above mentioned have been translated or excerpted in English or 

 other continental periodicals. Prof. Schiodte's papers on Phthiriasis, 

 Elateres and Buprestes, tunnelling Coleoptera, and sucking Crustacea 

 have been translated in the 'Annals,' as well as Dr. Meinert's papers 

 on Campodeae and his observations on those remarkable larvae of 

 Cecidomyise which exhibit alternating generations, and on genera- 

 tion generally ; whilst M. Fischer's discovery of the true egg and 

 nest of Garyocatactes has been communicated to EngKsh ornitho- 

 logists through the ' Ibis.' But there remain several papers well 

 worthy of attention. 



The volumes before us contain two further instalments (vol. iii. 

 p. 131, and vol. iv. p. 415) of Prof. Schiodte's memoir " De Meta- 

 morphosi Eleutheratorum Observationes," which has now grown up 

 to 279 pages of text and 31 plates, and is still being continued. 

 The larvae as yet described amount to 100, belonging to 57 genera 

 of the families of Carabi, Dytisci, Gyriui, Hydrophili, Silphoe, Histri, 

 and Staphylini, and representing the principal groups of these fami- 

 lies, except the last, which is not yet completed. A few of these 

 larvae have been described before, but mostly in loose and general 

 terms ; and it may well be said that never have the larvae of any 

 insects been the subject of such complete and accurate investigation 



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