678 INSECTA. 



insectes Apteres, the last of which (Mycetophila nigra Hallday), must, however, be expunged, being a Dipterous 

 insect, compared by Mr. Haliday with Pulex. Several detached species have also been published by Denny, 

 Kirby, Bouche, Macquart, and Guerin. 



THE ORDER COLEOPTERA. (P. 4D1). 



This order of insects has lately received a much greater share of attention and examination than any other, a 

 considerable number of detached memoirs or special works having been published either upon local species, or 

 upon particular families. Several memoirs have also appeared vrith reference to the general arrangement of the 

 order. Thus the disposition of the veins of the wings has been studied by Burmeister (in his article on Paussus), 

 and by Heer (Entomol. Zeit., 1843), with a view to its affording a satisfactory plan of arrangement ; whilst the 

 numerical development of the segments of the abdomen has also been studied by Heer (in the same work), and by 

 Schiodte (in Germar's Zeitschrift, Vol. V.) with the same view. 



The investigation of the preparatory states of the Coleoptera has been continued by Dr. Erichson, who has 

 published several articles on that branch of the subject in his Archives. 



A general catalogue of the order has been published by Sturm, on the plan of Dejean's catalogues, but such a 

 woi-k requires annual supplements, from the great number of species which are continually described. 



The Coleoptera of Europe are illustrated by Kuster in Die Kafer Europas. 



The Coleoptera of our own country have been described by Stephens in the Manual of British Beetles, and 

 outline figures of each genus, published in Spry and Shuckard's British Coleoptera. The beautiful work of Sturm 

 on the Coleoptera of Germany (Deutchslands Fauna), is still continued at intervals. A valuable little work on 

 the genera of the Coleoptera of Germany, has also been published by Redtenbacher. A more important work, how- 

 ever, on the Coleoptera of Germany, is now in course of publication by Dr. Erichson, * who enjoys ample opportu- 

 nities for determining most of the continental species. Moreover, in this work, the author has added notes of 

 the characters, and tables of the aUied exotic genera. The work of Schiodte on the Coleoptera of Denmark, illus- 

 trated with numerous anatomical plates and generic details, must also be consulted, as well as that by Heer on 

 the Coleoptera of Switzerland. The Coleoptera of Russia, Siberia, &c., h.ave been described by Faldermann, 

 Gebler, Motchoulsky, Mannerheim, Fischer, &c., in the Petersburgh and Moscow Transactions. 



The extra European Coleoptera has also been recently much investigated. Those of India, by Kollar and Red- 

 tenbacher ; those of Sylliet, by Mr. Hope (Trans. Linn. Soc.) ; those of Assam, by Hope and Parry ; those cjf 

 Canton and Chusan, collected by Dr. Cantor, by Mr. Hope, in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society ; 

 those collected at Hong Kong by Mr. Bowring, by Mr. White, in the Annals of Natural History ; those of 

 Western Africa, by Hope, Imhoff and Erichson; those of Port Essington and Port Philip, by. Hope, (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc), and Nevraian (Entomologist) ; those from Adelaide, by Dr. Germar ; those from Van Diemen's Land, 

 by Erichson ; those of the Mozambique, by Bertolini ; those collected by Captain King in his voyage to the 

 Straits of Magellan, by Mr. Curtis (Linn. Trans. Vol. XIX.) ; those of the Aleutian Islands, by Count Manner- 

 heim ; and many fine species brought from the southern parts of South America, by Mr. Charltfs Darwin, have 

 been described by Waterhouse, in the Annals of Natural History ; many of the Coleoptera of North America 

 have been described by Leconte, Haldemann, and others, in the Transactions of the Boston Natural History and 

 Philadelphia Societies. Mr. Hope's Coleopterist's Manual, in Three Volumes, Svo., contains descrixHions of 

 many new species, and various excellent remarks on the species described by Linna;us and Fabricius. I have 

 also just received the first part of Bohemann's work on the Coleoptera of Caifraria. 



The tribe Cicindelet;e (p. 493), has been revised by Lacordaire in the memoirs of the Royal Society of Liege, 

 Vol. I, in which the author divides it into five families — 1. Manticoridae with four genera. 2. Megacephalida; 

 with seven genera. 3. Cicindelidae with sixteen genera and sub-genera 4. CoUyridae with three genera. 5. Cte- 

 nostomidse with four genera. Many new species of this tribe have been described by Reiche, Hope, Parry, Kollar, 

 Chevrolat, the Marquis de la Ferte ; and several new genera by Germar, Guerin, and Chaudoir, amongst which 

 the most remarkable are Dromochorus and Callidema from Central America. The work of Schmidt Gobel on the 

 Insects of India, and Chaudoir's memoir on these insects just published, also contain many new species. 



The tribe Carabici (p. 494), has, notwithstanding the great work of Dejean, received considerable additions, as 

 well as suggested modifications in its arrangements. Mr. Haliday has proposed that the variable insertion of the 

 second spur of the fore tibiaa may be replaced to better purpose by the character which the structure of the 

 sternum oifers, and which appears to afford a more precise line of demarcation. If adopted, the tribe will fall 

 into three primary groups. (Entomologist, p. 186.) 



I. Amphibii, Praesternum dilated and truncated, forming a continuous level with the Mesosternum, (viz., the 

 structure of HaUploini), Gen. Omophron. 



II. Ahdominales, Mesosternum in front with a short, longitudinal ridge received into the posterior cavity of 

 Prosternum, limiting the motion of the prothora.x, and giving rigidity to the frame, (approaching the structure of 

 the Dyticidae in general). Genera, Cychrus, Carabus, Calosoma, Leistus, Nebria, Notiophilus. 



'■■ We have received intelligence, during the progress of this Supplement through the Press, of the decease of 

 this most excellent author. 



