250 
COLEOPTERA. 
Continues the author’s elaborate descriptions of larvae (to be noticed 
seriatim^ infra). The last part mentioned in Zool. Rec. [vii. p. 249] 
was the beginning of the 4th (Buprestidce)^ of which the concluding part 
is contained in Nat. Tids. (3) vi. pp. 467-536, pis. iii.-x., not seen by the 
Recorder. 
The legs of the larvae of beetles are 6-jointed, with exserted 
tarsi, which are provided with muscles, or 6-jointed, with a solid 
terminal joint. Of the former type, Cicindela, the and Pelobius, 
have “ mandibulae clausae,” which in the last-named have no “ retina- 
culum” ; in Haliplus and Cnemidotus, the Dystici and Gyrini^ the man- 
dibles are suctorial, and the ocelli six in number., 
Seidlitz, Georg. Fauna Baltica. Die Kafer (Ooleoptera) der 
Ostseeprovinz Russlands. Dorpat : 1874, 8vo ; Lieferung iii. pp. 
49-80 (generic table), 209-340. 
Comprises the end of the Anisotomidoi, the Silphidce^ Scydmcenid<x, 
Pselajyhidce, Staphylinidce and DascilUdce (^Gymnusa and Atopa meeting), 
and part of the Telephoridcc. 3 new species are described. 
Buarp, D. The Colcoptora of Scotland. Scot. Nat. ii. pp. 233-240, 
285-288, 329-336, 377-384. 
Continues former lists ; Homalota (part) to Othius. 
SoLSKY, S. In A. Fedchenko’s Puteshestvie v Turkestan [Travels in 
Turkestan] ; Zoogeographicheskia Izsledovania, Series 5, vol. ii. 
part 6. Jestkokrilia ((7o?eoj?<e?’a), fasc. 1, pp. 1-222. St. Petersburg 
and Moscow : 1874, 4to. 
The work of which the above is the separate title, is issued in the 
“ Isvestia Imperatorskaio Obschtestva liubitelei Estestvoznania, Antro- 
pologii, i Etnographii ” [Publications of the Imperial Society of Ama- 
teurs of Natural History, Anthropology, and Ethnography : = Nachr. 
Ges. Mosc.] of Moscow, series 5, vol. xi., and commences a discussion of 
the species observed by the late A. Fedchenko in his explorations of 
Turkestan (^Cicindelidce—Scaphidiidce). A new genus and many new 
species are characterized, the diagnoses being in Latin. The author’s 
remarks cannot be here abstracted, being in Russian. References are 
made to a plate not published with this fasciculus. 
Steinheil, Edoardo. SymboliB ad historiam Coleopterorum Argenti- 
niu3 moridionalis, ossia onumoraziono doi coloottori raced ti dal 
Prof. P. Strobol uell’ Argentiuia moridionale, o dcscriziono dello 
specie nuove (Traduzione dal manoscritto tedesco inodito par P. 
Strobel, coll’ aggiunta delle notizie sulla dimora delle specie). II. 
Centuria. Atti Soc. Ital. xv. (1872, published in 1873) pp. 554-578 
[Zool. Rec. vi. p. 194]. 
Local Notices. 
Spitzbergen : A. E. Eaton, P. E. Soc. 1874, p. vi. 
Great Britain. Shetland Isles (including varieties): T. Blackburn, 
