INSECTA. 679 



HI. Pedestres, Mesothorax in front, contracted ; retiring from the prosternum and permitting a freer motion 

 of the prothorax, approaching the structure of the Cicindelidje ; including the Harpalida;, Scaritidw, and Brach- 

 inidae of Mac Leay. 

 The Carabici of Denmark have been carefully revised by Schiodte. 



The Premices Entomologiques of Putzeys (Mem. Soc. Liege, Vol. II), contains a monograph of Pasimachu« 

 and an alUed genus and a great number of new species belonging to this tribe. The same author has also more 

 recently published a very extensive monograph on the genera allied to Clivina. 



A remarkable genus allied to Procrustes from Xanthos, has been described by White (Ann. Nat. Hist. Vol XV) 

 Various new African species allied to Antliia are described by Bertoloni, the American species alUed to Sca'rites 

 subterraneus, by Le Comte, (Boston Journal); and many new Russian species by Kolenati (Meletemata En- 

 tomologica). A group of small extent, but very singular structure, and remarkable for the strung resemblance 

 to aquatic beetles, has been proposed under the name of Heteromorphidse to include the American genus 

 Drepanus, and the AustraliaTi Adelotopus and Silphomorpha (Westwood in Linn. Trans. Vol. XVIII) Tl « 

 Carabidaj of the Voyage of the Beagle, collected by Mr. C. Darwin, have been described by Waterhouse in various 

 papers in the Annals of Natural History. The Scaritidffi of New Holland, .«everal of whicli are of singular 

 beauty, have been il'ustrated in my Arcana Entomologica, and the AustraUan Promeeoderi, by Guerin (Revue 

 Zool.) ; the Carabici of India are carefully described by Schmidt Gobel in the first part of his work upon the 

 collection in the Museum of Prague ; the species allied to Helluo (p. 495), have been revised by Reiche, and divided 

 into nine genera. (Annales of the French Ent. Soc.) Many additional exotic genera and species have also been 

 described by Bohemann and by Chaudoir, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, 1842 and 1843. Hope, Newman 

 Lucas, Chevrolat, Menetries, Gebler, Redtenbacher, Erichson, White, and others, have also described many new 

 detached species and genera. The .species of California and Sitka have been monographed by Mannerheim and those 

 of Columbia by Reiche. The British species have been revised by Schaum, in the Entomol. Zeitung. Amongst the 

 most remarkable of these new genera, is Anopthalmus of Sturm, founded on a blind species which inhabits the 

 Luegger Caves, in Krania. A second blind species was also found in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, by 

 Tellkampf 



The family Dtticid^ (p. 504), has recaived some additions of Danish species by Schiodte, in "Danmark's 

 Eleutherata." The species found near Erlangen have been monographed by Roseuhauer, and various detached 

 species have been described by other authors. The singular external marks of distinction in the sexes of some of 

 the species have been described by Count Mannerheim ; and Dr. Schmidt has investigated the causes of the sound 

 emitted by Pelobius Hermanni. Dr. Schaum has revised the British species, and also published notes on the 

 synonymy of many of the European ones in the Entomol. Zeitung. 



The Qtbinid.^, (p. 506). The German species have been revised by Suffrian (Entomol. Zeit.), and Von Eeisen- 

 wetter has published some interesting observations on the habits of Orectochilus Villosus in the same work. 



The Bbacbelytka (p. 50G), have received great additions since the first edition of this work. Erichson's 

 Genera and Species Staphylinorum has been completed in two 8vo. volumes. In this work, the Brachelytra are 

 divided into eleven primary tribes, characterized chiefly by the conspicuous or hidden position of the breathing 

 pores of the prothorax, the insertion of the Antennoe, the form of the anterior and posterior coxa;, and of the 

 posterior trochanters. These tribes are named from th( ir typical genera. — 1. Aleocharini ; 2. Tachyporini ; 

 3. Staphylinini ; 4. Psederini ; 5. Pinophilini ; 6. Stenini ; 7. Oxytelini ; 8. Piestini; 9. Phla^ocharini ; 10. Oma- 

 lini ; 11. Proteinini. The Linnwan species of this tribe have been revised by me in an article published in the 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society. Mr. Holme has also published some interesting notes in the 3rd 

 Volume of the same work; and Mr. Haliday has published some valuable " Notes on the Staphylinidae," in the 

 Entomologist. The numerous species of this tribe which reside in ant's nests, have formed the subject of many 

 papers in Germar's Zeitschrift, and in the Entomol. Zeitung by different authors. Numerous species from Sitka 

 Island, are described by Count Mannerheim ; others from Angola by Erichson ; and others from New Granada bv 

 Guerin. The German species have been revised by Kiesenwetter, in the Entomol. Zeitung. An excellent article on 

 the curious genus Micralymma Westw., has also been published by Schiodte, (Linnsea Entomol.) 



The BuPKESTiDES (p. 508), have been enriched with many new and beautiful exotic species by Spinola, Guerin 

 Chevrolat, Buquet, Erichson, Lucas, and White. The transformations of various species have been described by 

 Pechioli, Lamotte Barace, Lucas, Leon Dufour, and Bertolini. A discussion on the structure of these larv« 

 between L. Dufour, Goureau and Blanchard, has been published in the Annals of the French Entomol. Society. 



The splendid (but as regards its generical anatomical details, carelessly executed) work of Gory and Laporte, 

 has been brought to a conclusion, and a review of it been published by Spinola in the Revue Zoologique. 



The Elatekides (p. 510), have undergone an extensive revision by Germar and Erichson, in the Zeitschrift fur 

 die Entomologie. The luminous species allied to E. Noctilucus, of which the number is now known to be consi- 

 derable, have t>een formed into a separate genus named Pyrophorus. Various detached exotic species have been 

 described by dilferent authors. The splendid genus Campsosternus, and the remarkable gigantic species with fla- 

 bellate antennae, have been monographed by Mr. Hope in the Trans. Entomol. Soc., and Proceedings of the Zool 

 Society ; and some very beautiful Indian species have been figured in my Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. The 

 Natural History of many species injurious to the Agriculturist, has been published by Mr. Curtis in the Journal 

 of the Royal Agricultural Society. 



The sub-genera allied to Galba and Eucnemis (p. 510), have been revised by Guerin in the Annals of the French 

 Entomological Society, in which the species, all of which are highly interesting, are divided into seventeen 

 genera. 



The Cebrionites (p. 511), have been investigated with much care by M. Guerin, in the first three numbers of 



