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his Sppcies et Iconographie des Animaux Articules, in which careful figures, with dissections, are given of the 

 genera Rhipicera, Sandalus, Scjrtes, Eucinetus, Ptyocerus, Selasia, Chamserhipis, Basodonta, Elodes, Bradjtoma, 

 Octoglossa and Cladotoma all of which are accompanied hy excellent monographs. 



The Lamptrides (p. 511), have received an additional number of new species, and several new genera, including 

 Anisotelus, Hope, and Podistra and Thelodria, Motchoulsky. The species allied to Lycus (p. 511), have been 

 examined by Erichson in his Zool. Archives. 



The light of the glowworm has formed the subject of articles by Peters in MiiUer's Archiv., by Matteuci (in a 

 letter to M. Dumas), and by Deickhofl' (Entomol. Zeit., 117.) 



The genus Malachius, Fabricius, belonging to the tribe Meltrides (p. 513), has been monographed by Pr. 

 Erichson, who has described a great number of new species ; the whole being divided into sixteen different ge- 

 nera. (Entomographien, Part I.) 



The Clerii (p. 513), have received considerable additions, and have been monographed both by Dr. Klug, and the 

 Marquis Spinola, the latter of whom has figured every species known to him ; but Dr. Klug has been able, from 

 the rich stores of the Berlin Museum, to describe and figure a great number of species not contained in Spinola's 

 work. Dr. Klug has adopted only twelve genera in the tribe regarding most of the groups of Laporte, Spinola, 

 Chevrolat, Newman, &c., as sections. The genera adopted, and the number of species in each, respectively con- 

 tained in the Berlin Cabinet, are as follows : — Cylidrus, five species ; Tillus, twenty-eight species ; Priocera, four 

 species; Clerus, seventy species; Ptychopterus Klug (a new genus), one species from Caffraria ; Axina, one 

 species ; Opilus, nineteen species ; Erymanthis King (a new genus), one species from Caffraria ; Trichodes, 

 twenty species ; Corynetes, nineteen species ; Cylistus Klug (a new genus), one species from Caflfraria ; and 

 Enoplium, fifty species — Total, 219 species, of which, more than half are new. A supplement contains descrip- 

 tions of fifty-nine other species, described by previous authors, and not seen by Dr. Klug. The following is a 

 summary of the geographical range of the species — 120 are natives of the New World, and ninety-nine of the Old. 

 Of the Asiatic species, only four are from India ; one from Ceylon ; and six from Java. Of the African species 

 only two are from Central Africa, but eight are described in the supplement from Senegal ; seventeen are from Ma- 

 dagascar ; twenty -three from South Africa ; and two from Arabia. Only eight species are contained in the Berlin 

 Museum, from New HoUand, but fourteen others are given in the supplement described by other writers. The 

 English collections are much richer in the Asiatic and New Holland species. A number of the latter have been 

 described by Mr. Newman. M. Chevrolat has also described a number of additional new species from various 

 localities, in the Annals of the French Entomological Society, and Revue Zoologique. The generic arrangement 

 of M. Spinola appears to me far from satisfactory. 



The Scydmaenids (p. 515), have been studied by Schaum, who has published memoirs upon the family in his 

 Analecta Entomologica, and in Germar's Zeitschrift, and in the Entomologische Zeitung ; and Chaudoir has 

 described the Livonian species in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society. 



The Histeroides of North America have been monographed by Leconte, accompanied by a series of outline 

 figures very carefully executed. 



The Silphales (p. 516), have been investigated particularly in respect to their anatomical details by Matzek, in 

 his Necrophororum particula prima, Breslaw, 1839, and by Schmidt in his Inaugural " Dissertatio Silpharum 

 monographise particula prima," Warsaw, 1841. Some curious genera apparently allied to this tribe, have been 

 described and figured, but not in a sufiiciently precise manner, by Motchoulsky, in the Bulletin of the Moscow 

 Society. 



A blind insect belonging to this family, found in the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, has been described under the 

 name of Adelops, by Tellkampf, in Wiegmann's Archives. 



The Nitidularife (p. 517), have been revised by Erichson, in Vol. XV. of Sturm's German Fauna, and in 

 Germar's Zeitschrift, Vols. IV and V, where the tribe is divided into six primary groups, and a number of new 

 genera added, founded chiefly upon exotic insects. The Engidites and Dermestini have been also revised by the 

 same author, in his work on the Coleoptera of Germany, now in course of publication. 



The Byrrhii (p. 519), have been monographed by Steffhany in Germar's Zeitschrift, Vol. IV, where several new 

 genera are proposed. 



The Acanthopoda (p. 519), consisting of the single genus Heterocerus, has been monographed by Von Kiesen- 

 wetter in Germar's Zeitschrift. Vols, IV and V, where twenty-five species are described. A monograph on the 

 genus Georyssus, is given by Motchoulsky in the Moscow Transactions, 1841. 



The Palpicornes (p. 520, have been very carefully investigated by M. Mulsant, of Lyons, who has published a 

 treatise upon them in his work on the French Coleoptera. In this work the Palpicornes are divided into two 

 primary sections. 



1. The Htdkophilides, having the basal joint of the tarsi of the hind legs shorter than the second joint. 

 Fam. I. — Spereheens, consisting of the genus Sperchius, with one species. 



Fam. II. — Helophoriens, genus Helophorus, eight species ; Hydrochus, five species ; Ochthebius, eleven species 

 Hydraena, seven species. 



Fam. III.— Hydrophiliens, genus Limnebius, four species ; Berosus, four species ; Hydrophilus, one species ; 

 Hydrous, two species; Hydrobius, three species; Laccobius, one species; Helophilus, one species ; Philhydrus, 

 two species ; Cyllidium, one species. 



2. The Geophilides, with the first joint of the hind tarsi longer than the second. 



Fam. IV. Spheridiens. Genus Cyclonotum, one species; Sphaeridium, two species; Cercyon, fifteen species; 

 Pelosoma, one species ; Megastemum, one species ; Cryptopleurum, one species. 

 The family LAMELLICORNES {p. 521), has received very numerous and valuable additions, several works 



