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respects so similar to our own, that any new discoveries in Britain may be 
reasonably expected to be species already known there ; and we thus have 
not only a most careful guide to the species already known in Europe, but 
the means of deciphering any novelties. There is another book of a simi- 
lar nature which would be very useful to British entom.ologists, but is in a 
manner superseded by the two preceding works — a series of volumes, by 
M. Mulsant, descriptive of different sections of Coleoptera in France. 
It is a good many years since he published the LamelUcornes of France, 
the Palpicornes of France, the Longicornes of France, the Seciiripalpes 
of France, and now we have the HeUromera of France in progress. 
Every one must admit the value of M. Mulsant's works; but their 
extreme minuteness of description renders them less popular than they 
deserve. 
So far as regards the European fauna, a great many additions can 
scarcely be expected. A number of new species from the Llandes and 
the Pyrenees have been described by M. von Kiesen wetter and others ; and 
some interesting small species, constituting new genera, have been dis- 
covered by M. Jac. du Val, near Montpelier, and described in his Genera 
des Coleopteres. Spain has done a little by the hands of Professor 
Graells of Madrid, and Dr Rosenhauer of Erlangen has described some 
new species from Andalusia. But the chief novelties of interest have 
been drawn from two sources not thought of till of late years — namely, 
ants' nests and subterranean grottoes ; the additions drawn from the 
former source have been chiefly Staphylinidce^ and will be found in a 
paper by M. Kraatz upon the Termitophila (both those in the nests of 
termites and ants) published in the Linnea Entomologica last year. The 
Troglodytes or subterranean families have produced several interesting 
new eyeless species, and one or two genera. The most interesting points 
are the fact, that every new cave, or cave-district, produces not the old 
previously known cave-animals, but new species, peculiar to itself. A 
curious blind new genus, Leptomastaoo hypogeus, has been found on 
the sands of the Bay of Besika, near Constantinople, and described first 
bj M. Pirazzoli, and afterwards by M. Leon Fairmaire. It is peculiarly 
formed, allied to the ScydmcenidcE, and has no affinity to any of the cave- 
insects we have yet seen , but has considerable resemblance to a small ant ; 
and although found at large, as it were, I have no doubt it is an ant's- 
nest species, and will yet be found in its proper residence. 
Few new additions have been made to the fauna of the north of Europe. 
Prince Napoleon's expedition appears only to have produced one new 
species, described by Reiche under the name of Patrohus Napoleonis ; 
but a good deal of useful geographical material relating to that quarter 
will be found in two papers by Maklin and Osten-Sacken, published in 
1857 in the Stettiner Ent. Zeitung, which continues to go on prospering, 
and I trust long to prosper, under the able headship of its perpetual presi- 
dent Herr Dohrn (one of our foreign members), and nowise injured by 
the rise of its newly established formidable rival the Berliner Entomol. 
Zeitschrift, in which are to be found some very valuable papers. Among 
the more important original papers which have appeared in this Journal 
falls here to be mentioned a fauna of the Coleoptera of Greece, by Dr 
Kraatz and M. von Kiesenwetter. 
Many Russian and Siberian species have been described by Count 
Motschoulsky in his Etudes Entomologiques, and the Bulletins of the 
Imperial Society of Moscow. A considerable number of species taken 
during the Crimean war, in the Dubrudska, Crimea, and other shores of 
the Black Sea, have been described in the Annates of the Entomological 
Society of France^ and elsewhere. The Baron Chaudoir continues to 
enlarge our knowledge of the Caucasian and Mingrelian regions ; and 
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