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' Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland : ' * this little work not only 

 equals but far surpasses any Catalogue of Coleoptera ever published 

 in England : it exhibits an acquaintance with the best continental 

 authorities and great power in adjudicating the true value to supposed 

 species. It is a source of the most unmixed pleasure to me to see 

 Scotland, the finest field for the naturalist in the Queen's dominions, 

 thus understood, appreciated and illustrated by one of her own sons. 



Our indefatigable friend Mr. Westwood has just published a re- 

 issue of his work on the Butterflies of Britain,! and also a Supplement 

 to Wood's ' Index Entomologicus,' | which " contains five plates now 

 first engraved, exhibiting 180 coloured figures of British moths and 

 butterflies not included in the former edition of the ' Index Entomo- 

 logicus,' with synonyms and localities, also a systematic list of the 

 whole of the species, in order to show their distribution into families 

 and the position of the supplemental species, and of those whose 

 generic classification has been modified." 



Messrs. Baikie, Barron and Adams have published a work intituled 

 ' A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers;' § This 

 volume contains 750 pages, 150 of which are occupied by Ento- 

 molog>'. 



I now arrive at the Rev. J. F. Dawson's Monograph of the Carnivo- 

 rous Ground-beetles, || a work that bears internal evidence of invincible 

 assiduity and a profound knowledge of the subject. This volume is 

 less remarkable for the amount of new matter it contains than for the 

 mass of old and worthless matter which it sweeps away. Nothing was 

 ever more extraordinary than the wholesale destruction of names 

 which Mr. Dawson has achieved. Those entomologists who had 



* ' Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland.' By Andrew Murray, of Conland, 

 W. S. Blackwood: Edinburgh and London. 1853. 



f 'The Butterflies of Great Britain, with their Transformations delineated and 

 described.' By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., &c. Col. Plates. London: Orr. 

 1855. Price 15s. 



+ ' A New Supplement to Wood's Index Entomologicus, or a complete Illustrated 

 Catalof^ue of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain.' By J. O. Westwood, Esq., 

 F.L.S., late President of the Entomological Society, &c. Col. Plates. London: 

 Willis. 1854. Price I2s.6d. 



§ ' A Manual of Natural History for the Use of Travellers, being a Description of 

 the Families of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdom.' By Arthur Adams, William 

 Balfour Baikie and Charles Barron. London : Van Voorst. 1854. Price I2s. 



II ' Geodephaga Britannica. A Monograph of the Carnivorous Ground-beetles 

 indigenous to the British Isles.' By John Frederic Dawson, LL.B. Col. Plates. 

 London: Van Voorst. 1854. Price 12s. 



