GVb INSECJTA. 



mscLtes Aptcres, the last of which (Mycetopliila ni^^ra IlaliOuy), must, liowever, be expunged, being a Dipterous 

 insect, compared by Mr. Haliday with Pulex. Several detached species liave alsu been published by Denny, 

 Ivirby, Bouclie, Macquart, and Guerin. 



THE ORDEIl COLEOPTERA. (P. 491). 



Tliis 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 famihes. Several memoirs have also appeared with reference to the general arrangement of the 

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

 andby 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 lleer [in the same work), and by 

 Schiodte (in Germar's Zeitschrift, Vol. T.) with the same view. 



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

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



A general catalogue of the order has been publislied by Sturin, on the plan of Dejean's cat;dogues, but such a 

 work requires annual supplements, from the great number of species which are continually described. 



The Coleoptera of Europe are illustrated by Knster in Die Kafer Europas, 



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

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

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

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

 ever, on the Cob. optera 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 allied exutic genera. The work of Schiodte on the Coleoptera of Denmark, illus- 

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

 the Coleoxjtera of .Switzerland. The Coleoptera of Russia, Siberia, &c., have been described by Paldermann, 

 Gebler, Motchoulsky, Mannerheiin, Fischer, ttc., 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 Sylhet, by Mr. Hope (Trans. Linn. See) ; those of Assam, by Hope and Parry ; those of 

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

 those collected at Ilong Kong by Mr. Buwring, by Mr. White, in the Annals of Natm-al History ; those of 

 "\YHsterii Africa, by Hope, Imhoff and Erichson; thuse of Port Essington and Port Philip, by Hope, (Proc. 

 Ent. Si.>c.), and NcT^^Tlan (Entomologist) ; those from Adelaide, by Dr. Geniiar ; those from Yan Dieraen's Land 

 by Erichson; those of the .\bjzambique, 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 br.mght from the southern parts of South America, by Mr. Charles Darmn, have 

 been described by Waterbouse, in the Annals of Natural Histoi-y ; 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, 8vo., contains descriptions of 

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

 also just received the first part of Bohemann's work on ihe Coluoptera of" Caifraria. 



The tribe Cicinbelet.-e [p. 4!)3), has been revised by Lacordairo in the memoirs of the Royal Society of Liege, 

 Vul. I, in which the author divides it inio five families— I. Manticoridce with fuui- genera. 2. Megacephahd^ 

 with seven genera. 3. Cicindelidaa viith sixteen genera and sub-genera 4. Collyrida^ ^vith three genera. Ij. t'tf- 

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

 Chcvrolat, the Marquis de la Ferte ; and several new genera by Geroiar, Gucrln, and Chaudoir. amon-st \\ldch 

 the most rcinark.ildf :n;i Dromocborus and CalKdema from Central America. The work of Schmidt Gobel on the 

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



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

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

 secund sjJur of the fore tibias may be replaced to better purpose by the character which the structure of the 

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

 into three primary ;;roups. (Entomologist, p. 18G.) 



I. A,np!rn,ii, Pi-ast<rnum dilated and truncated, forming a continuous li^vcl with the Mcsosternum, (viz., the 

 structure uf llalipluiiii}, Gen. OoiOphron. 



II. Ahdomin.fl€S, Mesosternum in front with a short, longitudinal ridge received into the posterior cavity of 

 I'rosternum, hiniting the motion of the prothorax, and giving rigidity to the frame, (approaching the structure of 

 the Dyticldte in gL^neral), Genera, Cycbrus, Carabus, Calosuma, Lcistus, Nebria, Notiophilus. 



- ffe have received intelligence, during the progress of this Supplement through the Press, of the decease „f 

 this most excellent author. ■^'-'x-m oi 



