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A NEW LIST OF BRITISH BEETLES. 
Catalogue | of | British Coleoptera | by | D. SuarP, M.A., F.R.S., &, | 
and | W. W. Fowter, M.A., &c. | London: | L. Reeve & Co. | 1893. 
Every Coleopterist will welcome this catalogue, for it supplies 
along felt want, and the ee on the title-page are a sufficient 
guarantee that it is ‘ up-to-date. 
It has long been felt by most, if not all Coleopterists, that a new 
catalogue was urgently required, for this study has made such 
enormous advances since the catalogue issued by Fowler and 
Matthews in 1883, that the latter was comparatively useless. 
In the new catalogue no numbers are affixed to the genera, so 
that should it be found necessary to alter the position of any of them 
(as, despite the great care which has been used in the present 
classification, is very probable, owing to the nascent state of this 
science) it can easily be done. 
The alterations, though many, are not only Sb icdel ie but 
actually necessary with our improved knowledge. For instance, 
LVotiophilus has been raised to the rank of an independent tribe, 
_ instead of, as in the old system, forming part of the Nebriina; 
similarly Qodes, formerly included under the Chleniina, now is 
_ Oodina; also Amara, hitherto under pea aneniey has, with even 
More justice, been formed into a tribe, Amarin 
The way by which the Geodephaga and ee Hisdiudephaca « are 
connected is much superior to the older way, which was very abrupt. 
Now it leads by gentle gradations through the Ha/iplide, ricinus 
tina, and Lebiina. 
Although a perfect classification has not been arrived at (this 
indeed is impossible, many of the tribes being closely connected in __ 
directions, yet widely apart in others), yet the system adopted = 
inthe book before us shows many advantages over the former ones, 
| and we can but welcome it as more reer than ee we have noe 
id. eee 
Several , the records for which ase doubetud (eg bister 
- roeselt, Hister sinuatus, ete. )s have been removed from. the place 
they ha = d in onr lists. 
end under the betty of Doubtful Species,” whilst such species as 
_Carabus auratus are also collected under the heading of ‘ Introduced 
: = ges’ and the Stylopidz are removed to the end under the title 2 
togh ‘Abnormal: ee 
vec wee many?) formerly reckoned as varieties, 
of speci 
es, whilst, in a few oe. 3 
