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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIl : 
A dissertation which has appeared in Vienna, “ Quaedam genera et 
species Coleopterorum Archiducatus Austria© nondmn descriptorum. Diss. 
inaug. Auct. Guil. Redtenbacher, Vind. 1842, 8,” describes twenty-six 
species of Beetles, of which two only constitute new genera (v. inf.) 
Heers “ die Kafer der Schweiz, mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung 
ihrer geograph. Verbreitung” (Pt. 1, No. 3), has appeared in the 
Neu. Denkschr. d. AUg. Schweiz. Gesellsch. f. d. gesammten Naturwiss. 
5 Bd., and has besides been printed separately, 1841. This work keeps 
equal pace with the Fauna Coleopt. Helv. ; and the above number 
corresponds to the third number of the latter work. 
Hope (Ann. of Nat. Hist. ix. p. 494 ; x. p. 91) has described a number 
of new species from Western Tropical Africa, so rich in Coleoptera ; also 
Lnhof (Bericht iiber die Verhandl. d. Naturf. Gesellsch, in Basel, vom 
Aug. 1840, bis Juli 1842, v. Basel, 1843), which will be mentioned more 
minutely afterwards. Those of the former are mostly from Cape 
Palmas, those of the latter from the hill country of Aquapim. 
Hope has made a contribution to the Fauna of Sylhet, by describing 
fourteen rare and beautiful Beetles, of which short characters are given 
in the Proceedings of the Linnaean Society (Ann. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 247). 
These are, seven Lucanidce, one Mimela, one Chrysochroa, four Longi- 
cornes, among which is a new genus, Zonopjterus, and one Sagra. More 
minute information on these species may be learned from the treatise 
itself. Of the new genus nothing can be at present said, as nothing 
very exact has been stated as to its position in the series of the Longi- 
cornes. Hope has mentioned a number of Coleoptera, collected by 
Cantor in Chusan and at Canton (Proceed. Ent. Soc. p. 60) ; but we 
cannot enter more minutely on them here, as the characters given of 
them are too superficial* to recognise the species, and often even doubts 
remain whether the genera are correctly defined. It is to be desired 
that a more exact description were given. A communication upon the 
Beetles of Port Essington, by Hope (Proceed. Entom. Soc. p. 43), 
possesses much interest for the Fauna of New Holland, as the north 
coast of New Holland was till then quite unknown ; and the presence of 
several genera in New Holland is ascertained, which hitherto had not 
been known to occur there. To the latter belong Copris and Megace- 
phala. The enumeration is partly incomplete, and the characters given 
are very meagre and uncertain. 
Newman has published a list of Beetles, which were collected at 
Port Philip, on the south coast of New Holland (Entomologist, p. 351, 
361, 401, 413). Were this catalogue complete, and the descriptions more 
* For example, “ Sp. 19, Lagria nigricollis, Hope. Flava, antennis, capite, 
thoraceque nigris, elytris pallide castaneis, villosis, corpore infra piceo, pedi- 
hiis concoloribus.” What, then, is yellow about the animal ? 
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