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cMrus mneus has 12 species referred to it; D. punctatus^ 10; Cymindis 
axillaris^ 22 ; Platyderus ruficollis, 23, &c.). The Recorder can only ex- 
press a hope that this excessive collocation, introduced of late years by 
Fauvel, may not be a mere mechanical reaction, arising from the ov^r- 
fecundity of certain species-manufacturers ; the author himself, after 
deposing various recognized species of Carabus, does not hesitate to 
describe a new one, of which the diagnosis alone takes 21 lines of small 
italics, and the description relies upon dilferential characters modified 
by such words as “ un peu,’^ “ a peine,” “ semblent,” “ g4ne;’alement,” 
&c., including a statement that individual variations are so great, 
“ qu’on chercherait vainement a enfermer les differences qui les distiu- 
guent dans un formule absolue.” Another species is described by him 
as new, on a single specimen, found dead, and' with no head or tarsi. 
“ Quis custodiet custodes ? ” 
Gozis, M. DES. Catalogue des Coieopteres de France et de la Faune 
Gallo-Rhenane. Montlu 9 on: 1875, 12mo, pp. 110. 
Reviewed in Feuil. Nat; vi. p. 24. r Upwards of 8000 species and 
varieties are enumerated. The Stapliylinidce have been entrusted to 
Fauvel ; and in some families an arrangement different to that habitu- 
ally employed is adopted without any statement as to reason ; the Clavi- 
corns being divided into two parts, whereof the first unites the Hydro- 
^hilidcB and Staphylinidae^ through Heterocerus and Farnus^ and the 
second is placed between the Staphylinidca, Scydmcenidce, and Scara- 
bc^idce. 
Harold, E. von. Verzeichniss der von Herrn T. Lenz in Japan gesam- 
melten Coleopteren. Abh. Ver. Brem. iv. pp. 283-296. 
47 species, including 8 new. 
Heyden, L. von. Bericht fiber die von Hr. Prof. Dr. Freiherrn von 
Fritsch und Dr. J. J. Rein auf den Canarischen luseln gesammelteu 
Kafer. JB. senck. Ges. 1874-75, pp. 135-145. 
83 species are enumerated from Grand Canary and Teneriffe, and 3 
from the latter, and 9 from Lanzarote, in a supplementary part. One 
new species (Pimeliides) is described. 
Jekel, H. Coleoptera Jekeliana, &c. [Zobl. Rec. x. 1873, p. 227]. 
Livrn. ii. Paris : 1875, 8vo, pp. 101-196. 
Consists chiefly of descriptions of species, &c., of the Curculionideous 
groups Microcerides and Br achy derides ^ this portion of the work being 
in fact parts iii. & iv. of the “ Insecta Saundersiana,” of the same author. 
A new classification of the latter group is proposed, founded on different 
degrees of application of the elytra to the base of the thorax : two chief 
divisions are made, I. Exhumerata, containing sub-divisions Obtusan- 
gula and Acutangula, with further groups Temnoptera and Coptoptera ; 
II. Humerata (winged species), with sub-divisions Sinuosa and Bipro- 
ducta, and further groups Colpoptera and Diloboptera. Reproductions 
of the descriptions by L. Redtenbacher & Kollar in Joseph Russegger’s 
“ Voyage en Europe,” &c., are continued. For review, see C. H. xiv. 
p. 151 ; Pet. Nouv. (1875) p. 534. 
