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logue. Many of these yelate merely to the local occurrence of species j hut others 
are of more general importance, and will he noticed in their proper places. 
Boisduval (Entom. horticole, pp. 103-194) describes the habits of a great 
number of common Garden-Beetles. Many of them are figured with their larvm. 
GiiEDLKii publishes (Ool. Ilefte, iii. pp. 60-70) a list of additional speciew 
of Coleoptera from the Tyrol, with notes upon many of those recorded in 
his ^ Kiifer von Tirol.’ Two or tlireo new species are described. 
G. JosEPir publishes (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1808, pp. 301-304) a note of 
Coleoptera collected in an excursion to the mountain near Landeck. 
Gerhaed publishes (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1808, p. 307) a note of Coleo- 
ptera collected in the Riesengebirge in July. 
Betiie publishes (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1808, pp. 44-51) an account of his co- 
leopterological investigation of the coast of the Baltic near Swinemiinde. 
PiocHARD DE LA Br9lkrie communicates a short account of the excursion 
into Spain made by members of the French Entomological Society, from April 
to July 1808. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1808, p. Ixxiv. 
Crotch publishes (Entomologist, iv. p. 47) some notes on doubtful British 
Coleoptera. The species referred to are: — Ilispa atra (Linn.), Cassula ferru- 
ginea (Fab.), Eumolpus pygmcBus, Scydmeenus rutilipennis (Miill.), Astrapeeus 
nlmi (Fab.), and Philonthus eyanipennis (Fab.). 
Crotch publishes (Entomologist, iv. pp. 65-09) some Notes on Recent 
Continental publications on Coleoptera,” with special reference to British 
species or to species which may be expected to occur in Britain. lie remarks 
upon Kraatz’s notes upon German Coleoptera (see ^Record,’ 1807, p. 212), 
and upon Thomson’s supplement to the ^ Skandinavieus Coleoptera.’ 
H. Moncreaff publishes notes on Coleoptera collected at Southsea. En- 
tomologist, iv. pp. 117-118. 
E. A. Waterhouse publishes a list of Coleoptera ciiptured by him in 
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Ent. M. Mag. iv. pp. 180 -187 & 231. 
Frauenfeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. p. 289) gives a list of 
the species of Coleoptera collected on the Nicobars during the voyage of the 
^ Novara.’ The species are only 14 in number. 
A list of the species of Coleoptera found in Vancouver’s Island is given by 
Walker in the Appendix to Lord’s ^ Naturalist in Vancouver’s Island and Bri- 
tish Columbia ’ (vol.ii. pp. 309-311). A considerable number of species are 
described as new. 
Horn publishes (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. pp. 123-128) a list of the species 
of Coleoptera collected by Cope and Leidy during a geological exploration of 
the mountains of South-western Virginia. The list includes nearly 180 spe- 
cies, some of which are described as now. 
Girard notices the Coleoptera contained in a collection made in Mexico 
by Boucard, and exhibited in 1807 at the Ministry of Public Instruction 
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. viii. pp. 290, 291). 
Girard also notices the collections of injurious and useful Coleoptera ex- 
hibited by Moequerys in the Paris Exhibition of 1867. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
1808, pp. xli-xliv. 
Shimer notices (Proc. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1868, pp. vii-viii) the Coleoptera 
bred by him from dead trees of the Prickly Ash {Xanthoxyhim americanum). 
He enumerates Lcemophloens adastus (Lee.), Sacium fascUdum (Say), Mieracis 
sutiiralis^ (Lee.), a species of Centrinus, and a new Liopus. 
See ScolytidiX. 
