INSECTA. 679 



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

 of the prothorax. approaching the structure of the Cicindelidse ; including the HarpalidiB, Scaritida:, and Braeh- 

 iiiidx i.f Mac Leay. 



The Carabifi of Denmark have been carefully revisi^d by Sc-hiudte. 



The Preniices Entomulugiques of Puu.ys (Mem. Sue. Liege, VuL II), contains a monograph of Pasimachus 

 and an aUied genus and a great number of n«w species belonging to this tribe. The same author has also more 

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



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

 Various new African species allied to Anthia are described by Bertoloni, the American species allied to Scarites 

 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 fur the strong resemblance 

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

 Drepanus, and the Australian Adelotopus and Silphnmorpha (Westwood in Linn. Trans. Vol. XVIII) The 

 CarabidEB 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 Scaritidte of New Holland, several of which are of siueular 

 beauty, have been illustrated in my Arcana Entomologica, and the Australian Promecoderi, 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 Hellun (p. 49.3), 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 Bnhemann and by Chaudoir, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, 1S42 and 1843. Hope Newman 

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

 detached species and genera. The species of California and Sitka have been monugraphed by Mannerlieioi, 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 bhnd 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 Dvticid* (p. ri04), has recsived some additions of Danish species by Schiodte, in "Danmark's 

 Eleutherata." The species found near Erlangen have been monographed by Kosenhauer, 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 tlie causes of the sound 

 emitted by Pelobius Hermanni. Ih-. i^.ebaum has revised the British species, and also published notes on the 

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



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

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



The Bbachelytua (p. 50(1), have received great additions since the first edition of this wurk. Erichson's 

 Genera and Species Sta])hylinorum has been completed in two 8vo. volumes. In this work, the Bracbelytra are 

 divided into eleven primary tribes, characterized chiefly by the conspicuous or hidden pusition of the hreatliing 

 pores of the prothorax, the insertion of the Antennre, the form of the anterior ami posterior coxi.e. and of the 

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

 3. Staphylinini ; 4. PEederini ; 5. Pinophihni ; 6. Stenini ; 7. Oxytehni ; 8. Piestini; 0. Phlieoeharioi ; 10. Oma- 

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

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

 Volume of the same ■\^ork ; and Mr. (lahday has pubhshed some valuable "Notes on the btaphyhnida;," 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 Zcitscbrift, and in the Entomol. Zeitung by different authors. Numerous species from Sitka 

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

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

 the curious genus Micralymma Wcstw., has also been published by Schiodte, (Linna;a Entomul.) 



The BuPRESTiDES (p. 508), have b- en enriched with many new and beautiful exotic species by Spinola, Guerin. 

 Chevrolat, Buquet, Erichson, Lucas, and AVhite. Tlie transformations of various species have been described by 

 Pechioh, Lamotte Barace, Lucas, Leon Dufour, and BertoUni. A discussion on the structure of these larvae 

 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 Elaterides {p. 510), have undergone an extensive revision by Germar and Erichson, in the Zeitschrift fur 

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

 derable, have l>ecn formed into a separate genus named I'yropliorus. Various detached exotic species have been 

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

 bellate antenna, 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, h:is 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 CebkioxN'ites {p, 511], have been investigated with much care by M. Guerin, in the first three numbers of 



