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THE SUBSTITUTE. 
Mr. Waterhouse), has given me a 
'erv fair insight into the amount 
«.f aberration from local disturbing 
causes, to which the several repre- 
sentatives are subject; and if, in 
addition to this, I include the 87 
Continental types with which my 
cabinet is supplied, the specimens 
which have passed under my own 
immediate observation, while com- 
pilinsr the present memoir, is no 
less than 1224.” 
We are confident that we ex- 
press the general wish of English 
Coleopterists, when we say that 
we hope an author who has such 
stores of material and knowledge 
will give his assistance in the 
revision of some more of the 
genera of small Coleoptera, which 
require to be overhauled quite as 
much as Atoniaria. 
Mr. Murray’s ‘Monograph of 
the Genus Catops’ is another va- 
luable rectification of a difficult 
genus of Coleoptera. It is not 
confined to the European species, 
but includes exotic, and in drawing 
it up, the author had the assist- 
ance of those English and foreign 
entomologists who have specially 
studied the genus, so that this 
pa]>er may be looked upon as the 
last exposition on the subject, and 
being written in English will pul 
us in possession of information 
scattered through many books in 
various languages. It contains a 
rapid glance at what has been 
done by previous authors, first in 
the European and afterwards in 
the exotic species ; their detailed 
descriptions, frequently illustrated 
by outline figures, of all the dif- 
ferent species which have been 
described or have come under the 
author’s notice; and lastly, a short 
dichotomous table of the charac- 
ters of the European species of the 
genus. 
We find a note at page 6, which 
we cordially endorse and copy 
below. 
“ If an author describes a spe- 
cies so loosely that it cannot be 
recognised from his description, 
so that subsequent authors mis- 
apply or ignore his name, while on 
their part they give a recognizable 
description, 1 cannot see on what 
principle of justice or propriety we 
are to be called upon to hold by 
the unrecognizable name instead 
of the recognizable, nor why an 
author (be he living or dead, or 
great or small) should be allowed 
to supplement his inadequate des- 
cription by a reference to the typi- 
cal specimens in his cabinet from 
•which the descriptions were taketi, 
— a practice now in vogue, against 
which I take this opportunity to 
enter my protest.” 
At page 48, under C. chrysome- 
loides, we find mention of an old 
fashioned hectle-trap, but it may 
be new to some of our readers. 
Mr. Bates, of Leicester, has 
taken hundreds (and supplied me 
largely) by a simple trap which is 
very useful for taking some of our 
rarest Clavicomes. He puts three 
or four rabbits’ feet into a soda- 
water bottle, buries it in a favor- 
able locality, so that the mouth of 
the bottle is level with the ground, 
and in a week or ten days the in- 
terior of the bottle is swarming 
with insects, among which great 
rarities occasionally occur.” 
We have to express regret that 
a memoir of so much interest to 
English Coleopterists should have 
appeared in the ‘ Annals’ — a ma- 
gazine which contains so little 
entomological matter that nut one 
