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form the (unalterable) specific name of any insect ; and that such generic 
names as may be from time to time proposed should be used in addition 
to these two ; thus reverting to a trinomial plan. H. von Kiesen wetter, 
CR. Ent. Belg. xvi. pp. cxhd.-cxlviii., denies that he invented or materially 
seconded the adoption of the principle of absolute priority. Breyer, 
op. cit. p. cxlviii., contradicts this denial. On the general question, cf. T. 
L. Mead, Canad. Ent. v. pp. 18 & 108 ; W. H. Edwards, op. cit. pp. 
21-36 ; H. K. Morrison, op. cit. pp. 70 & 106 ; F. B. White, Scot. Nat. 
ii. pp. 104-109 ; S. A. de Marseul, Nouv. et faits. No. 40, and Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. clix. 
General observations on the definition of a species in entomology are 
given by C. P. de laBrtjlerie (followed by A. Fauvel & P. Mabille) 
in Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) iii. pp. Iviii.-lxii., Ixxi.-lxxiv. No new opinion 
is advanced. 
Hans Strom : Further account of his entomological works by Hagen, 
S. E. Z. xxxiv. pp. 225-232, with list of species of all orders described by 
him. 
COLEOPTERA. 
BY 
E. C. Rye, F.Z.S. 
The General Subject. 
Bargagli, p. Materiali per la Fauna Entomologica delP Isola 
di Sardegna. Coleotteri. Ball. Ent. Ital. v. pp. 34-49, 
88-97, 198-207, 244-256. 
Cehrionidoe to end. 
Bates, H. W. On the Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan. 
Tr. E. Soc. 1873, pp. 219-322. 
244 species of Cicindelidce, and Carahicloi are now know from Japan, 
120 of which are added in this paper, from the captures of Mr. G. Lewis. 
9 genera out of the 84 in which these are contained are peculiar to the 
country, but no extensively endemic fauna is to be expected, as the 
islands are not geographically oceanic, the separation from Korea being 
narrow and shallow. In spite of the apparent similarity between Japan- 
ese species and those of Western Europe [see Sharp, m/Vvi], there is no 
identit}^ between the two faunas ; but there are distinct traces of affinity 
between the Eastern states of N. America and Japan. 
. Descriptions of new genera and species of Geodepha- 
gous Coleoptera, from China. Tow., cit. pp. 328-334. 
