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Labrador : A. S. Packard gives a list of species, iv. Rep. Peab. Ac. pp. 92- 
94 (to commencement of StaphylinidcB). 
Grimsby, Ontario : J. Pettitt concludes bis list. Canad. Ent. iv. pp. 12 & 98. 
E. Colorado and X.E. Nevr Mexico : in F. V. Hayden's Geological Survey 
of Wyoming (1871) is a list of species collected by Cyrus Thomas during 
tbe survey of 1869. 
Montana. In the same geologist's ' Preliminary Report of the United 
States Geological Survey of Montana and portions of adjacent territories' 
(Washington : 1872, pp. 538, pis. 2), pt. iv. pp. 382-392, is a list by Horn of 
the species found by C. Thomas during this survey, in June and July 1871, 
the space explored being intermediate between the faunal regions of Oregon 
and the plains to the east of the Rocky Mountains. In Eleodes (especially E. 
ohscura, Say), Calosoma luxatwn, Omus, &c., the sculpture is deeper and 
rougher towards the west. Oregon forms (e. g. Tragosoma harrisi and Phry^ 
ganophilus coUaris) extend southward to California, gradually seeking a 
higher mountain-habitat as the region becomes warmer. From S. California, 
species have extended along the desert bordering the River Colorado to Utah, 
but cannot be expected to cross the Rocky Mountains. New Meloidce occur 
in every fresh region. Modifications of species by extended habitat are also 
discussed by de la Brulerie, R. Z. (2) xxiii. pp. 173 & 221, especially with 
regard to Carahidce. 
Madagascar. In Vinson's ' Voyage ' &c. Annexe C, pp. 1-18, is a list by 
Ch. Coquerel of nearly 900 known species, in which 22 of Lacordaire's 
families (including the Xitidulidce !) are not represented. 
Cave-beetles. Piochard de la Brulerie, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ii. pp. 443- 
472, under the title "Notes pour servir a I'etude des Coleopteres caverni- 
coles," describes various new species, of which mention will be made hereafter. 
Eyeless insects seem nevertheless capable of being affected by light ; but the 
means supplying the want of sight are not capable of explanation. Most blind 
beetles have all the limbs much elongated. In Adelops and Anophthahnus^ 
compared with Catops and Trochus, the author considers that the greater 
diversification of form and more considerable number of species of the two 
blind genera may be due to the more trenchant difierences in the conditions 
of life of the cave-dwellers than of those free to occupy various points of the 
surface, and to their absolute isolation [see also Abeille, supnt, p. 230]. 
Ants'-nest beetles at Baikal are of the same species as those commonly 
found in Europe. Solsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. viii. p. 236, note. 
Captures of rare or local species are recorded from the Manchester district 
by W. Broadhurst, Ent. M. M. viii. p. 289 ; from the New Forest, by G. C. 
Champion, ibid. ix. p. 86; from Caterham, id. ibid. p. 159 ; from Kent, by H. 
S. Gorham, ibid. pp. 12 & 118; from S. Devon, by T. V. Wollaston, ibid. 
p. 33; from North Brabant, by Everts, Tijdschr. Ent. (2) vii. p. xxvi ; from 
Luxemburg, by v. Volxem, CR. Ent. Belg. xv. p. Ixvii ; from Flemish 
Zeland, by Weyers, ibid. pp. lix & Ixvii ; from St. Vaast-la-Hougue, by A. 
Fauvel, Bull. Soc. L. Norm. (2) v. p. 402 ; from Finisterre, by V^rez, Herve, 
& Oberthur, Pet. Nouv. no. 60, p. 240 ; from Fontainebleau, by Grouvelle & 
L^veill^, ibid. no. 59, p. 236 ; from Central France, by Desbrochers, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) ii. p. Ixxxiv ; from the Valley of Lantosque, Alpes Maritimes, by 
Peragallo, Pet. Nouv. no. 65, p. 259 ; from the Caves of Ari^ge, by de la 
Brulerie, ibid. no. 06, p. 263, and (also from Switzerland) Abeille de Perrin, 
