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a distinct order, however, Professor Huxley expressed his dissent. 

 A second species of the genus was found with the first, differing 

 in the form of the antennae. 



M. de Marseul has recently published a new edition of his 

 1 Catalogus Coleopterorum Europaa et confinium.' The number 

 of species is now above 16,000 ; but it must be recollected that 

 to the European area is added the shores around the Mediter- 

 ranean, or, in other words, North Africa and Western Asia. 

 By this arrangement, however, comparatively few extra Euro- 

 pean genera are introduced, almost the only ones from the tropics 

 being Monomma, CallirJiipis, Stenochia, Fiazomias, Mylloeerus, 

 and Arrhenodes. Articerus and Rimatismus, Australian and South 

 African genera respectively, are also represented. The work has 

 been got up in a very careless manner ; wrong authorities are 

 often given, and the spelling is by far too frequently faulty. 



The little work by Miss Stavely, on ' British Spiders, an Intro- 

 duction to the Study of the British Araneidse,' it is admitted " lays 

 no claim to originality ; the work of Mr. Blackwall on the same 

 subject having been most freely used." It is one of the series 

 of books on British Natural History now in course of publication 

 by Lovell Beeve and Co., by whom we are informed they were 

 to be " entirely the result of original research, carried to its most 

 advanced point." This is a little too bad. As a useful abridge- 

 ment of Mr. BlackwalTs ' History,' Miss Stavely 's volume may 

 be recommended; but we think it would have been improved 

 if she had given some notices of the habitats. Many species 

 have only been taken once, or in one locality, and this it is 

 very important should be known to the collector, for whom the 

 work is more especially adapted. 



The last part of the ' Linnaaa Entomologica,' containing up- 

 wards of 480 pages, is entirely confined to, and completes Dr. 

 Suff nan's descriptions of, the South American Cryptocephali. The 

 plan of devoting as large a space as possible to a paper, instead 

 of breaking it up into fragments, as is now too often the case, is 

 much to be commended. In the enormously increasing mass of 

 zoological literature, could not some plan be devised by which 

 any paper may be taken out of the volume in which it appears, 

 in order that it may be kept or classified with others of the 

 same character? Many small, but important, papers are now 

 often overlooked or forgotten. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London. 



December 3. — A collection of Coleoptera from Rio Janeiro was 

 exhibited by Mr. Janson. Stenus major, Muls., an insect lately found 

 at Southend and new to Britain, was exhibited by Dr. Sharp. In 



