(380 INSECTA. 



]iis Sppcies et TcoBographie des Animaux Articules, in wMcli careful figures, with dissections, are given of the 

 gL-nera Rhipicera, Sandalus, Sc.vrtes, Eucinetus, Ptyocerus, Selasia, Chamaarhipis, Basodonta, Elodes, Bradjtomaj 

 OL-toglossa and Cladotoma all of which are accompanied by excellent monographs. 



The Lampyrides (p. Oil), have received an additional number of new species, and several new genera, includin;^ 

 Anisotelus. Hope, and Podistra and Thelodria, Motchoulsky. The species allied to Ljcus {p. Oil), liave bui^ii 

 examined by Erichson in his Zool. Archives. 



Thelight of the glowworm has formed the subject of articles by Peters in MUller's Archiv., by Matteuci (in a 

 letter to M. Dumas), and by DeickhoS" {Entomol. Zeit., 117.) 



The genus Malachius, Pabricius, belonging to the tribe Melteides (p. 513), has been monographed by Dr. 

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

 nera. (Entomographien, Part I.) 



The Cler'n (p. 513), have received considerable addition?, and have been monographed both by Dr. Klug, and the 

 IMarquis Spinola, the latter of whom has figured every spi/cies known to him ; but Dr. King 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 

 wnrk. Dr. Klug has adopted only twelve genera in the tribe regarding most of the groups of Lap^rte, Spinola, 

 Clievrolat, Newman, ifec., as sections. The genera adopted, and the number of species in each, respectively con- 

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

 pjieeies ; 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; Curynetes, nineteen species; Cylistus King {a new genus), one species from Caft'raria ; 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. King. The follomng is a 

 summary of the geographical range of the species — lilO are natives of the New World, and ninety-nine of the Ol'J. 

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

 only two are from Central Africa, but eight are described in the supplementfrom 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 Holland, 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. Ne^TBan. M Ohevrolat has also described a number of additional new species from various 

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

 of M. Spinola appears to me far from sati'.factory. 



The Scydmsenida? (p. 515), have been studied by ^chaum, who has published memoirs upon the family in his 

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

 di.'scribed the Livonian species in the Bulletin of the Jkloscow Society. 



The IlistL'roides 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 rc?;pei,'t to tliL-ir anatumical details by iMatzek, in 

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

 monographirc particula prima," Warsaw, 1841. Some curious gen<.-ra apiiarently allied to this tribe, have beeu 

 described and figured, but not in a sufficiently precise manner, by Mutchoulsky, in the Bulletin of the Moscow 

 Society. 



A blind insi'ct 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 Nitidulariie (p 517), have been revised by Erichson, in Vol. XV. of Sturm's Ocnnan 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. 510), have beeu monographed by Stettliany in Germar's Zeitschrift, Vol. IV, ivhere 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 h;is published a 

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

 jjrimary sections. 



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

 Fam. I, — ^Spercheens, consisting of the genus Sperchius. with one spceifS, 



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

 UydrKna, seven species. 



Fam. Ill.-IIydrophihens, genus Limnehius, fuur species ; Berosus, four species ; ITyii-opliilus, one species; 

 Hydrous, two sj.ecies; Ilydrubius. three species; Laccobius, one species; Helophilus, one species ; Philhydrus, 

 two species ; Oyllidium, one species. 



2. The GE0PH1LIDE3, with the first joint of the hind tarsi longer than the second. 



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

 Pelosoma, one species ; Megasternum, one species ; Cryptopleurum, one species. 



The family LAMELLICORNES (p. 521), has received very numerous and valuable ad^litions, several works 



