WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
“ ENTOMA QUID QUID AGENT NOSTRI EST FA11HAGO LIBELLI.” 
No. 11.—' Von. 2,] SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1863. [Price 2d. 
NOTES FROM LACOItDAIRE. 
No. I. 
we have row laid before our 
readers a sufficient number of Extracts 
from Donovan’s work to give them a 
verv fair idea of the whole book, and 
as it must be called in these days, less 
instructive than interesting, as show- 
ing the mistaken ideas of our fore- 
fathers, though there is much more to 
be gleaned from the book that we 
should much like to publish, than has 
yet appeared we intend for a time at 
least suspending the appearance of 
these Extracts, in order to admit cer- 
tain other leaders of the same nature, 
which are, perhaps, of a more instuc- 
tive character than those already 
published Accordingly, this week, 
we commence a series (which will 
probably be a short one,) of Notes 
fromM. Lacordaire’s “ Histoire Nat- 
urelle des Coleopteres,” or “ Natural 
History of the Coleoptera.” I his 
book is, of course, in French, but as 
many of our readers probably would 
prefer English, we translate sucn 
portions of it as we extract. Such of 
our readers as are Lepidopterists ex- 
clusively will no doubt consider that 
these notes on Coleoptera are balanced 
by the interesting “ Hone Haworth- 
iance” with which Mr. Kirby is fa- 
vouring us, and which are devoted to 
Lcpidoptera alone. The Coleopterists 
who see the “Entomologist” will, 
we feel sure, derive much informa- 
tion from the work of the learned 
foreigner. Many of our readers, 
probably, are aware that M. Lacor- 
daire treats of genera of Coleoptera 
only, and that he does not confine 
himself to those of a given district, 
but includes the Coleoptera of the 
world. The first chapter of the book 
is introductory, and consists of a con- 
sideration of the structure and classi- 
fication of beetles. From this we 
shall make no extracts, as it is chiefly 
devoted to the consideration of certain 
theories of arrangement, but shall 
proceed at once to the body of the 
work. As we wish to give our 
readers a general summary of the book 
we shall more generally publish ab- 
stracts, in our own words, than ex- 
tracts, as there is much that would 
be of comparatively little value. 
M. Lacordaire regards families as 
the main divisions of the Coleoptera . 
these he divides into what he calls 
