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INSECTAj COLEOPTERA. 
Ital. ii. pp. 177-189, tav. i. f. 8, 14 bis, 15, 16, tav. ii. 
f. 4, 5, 8. 
Enters minutely into the structure of the light-producing 
organs in this beetle, and gives highly magnified drawings of 
the photogenic lamellae and their component cellules &c. 
Thomson, C. G. Coleoptera Scandinavise, eller Skandinaviens 
Coleoptera, tom. x. Lund, 1868, pp. 420. 
This completes the great Swedish naturalist^s most original 
work, commenced in 1859. The present vol. (much disfigured 
hy typographical errors) comprises: — 1st, supplements to vol. v., 
containing the author’s Lamellicornes , Platysoma, Xylo~ 
phagi, Fangicola (pp. 1-80); vi. Serricornes, Heteromera (pp. 81- 
• 146) ; vh. Rhynchophori (pp. 147-224) ; viii. Longicornes^ Phy~ 
tophagiy Aphidiphagi (pp. 225-288) ; and consisting of tables of 
the various families, genera, and species of those Series,^^ with 
additions to the several volumes of recognized spp., or of fresh 
characters for those already recorded by the author, and de- 
scriptions of new spp. : 2ndly, ^ Addenda et Emendanda,^ pp. 
289-349, being similar additions and descriptions relating to the 
whole work (through vol. ix.): 3rdly, ^ Omissa,^ pp. 350-358: 
and 4thly, an index of genera, species, and synonyms for the 
entire work. 
The author founds the following new families, Munnidiidce 
(p. 27) for the reception of Murmidius ovalis (Beck); Hypo- 
phlmd(& (p. 129), at the expense of the DiaperidcByiox the genus 
Hypophloius. 
. Nagra for Sveriges Fauna nya Coleoptera. Opusc. Ent. 
fasc. ii. 9, pp. 124-140. 
Two genera and 25 species (10 being new) are added to the 
Swedish fauna. 
Bidrag till Sveriges Insect-Fauna. L. c, fasc. in. 18, 
pp. 322-339. 
Contains 24 species new to Sweden (8 treated as new to 
science). 
. NSgra ord om insect- kro])pens sammansaltning, siir- 
skilt mcdhansyn till Coleoptera. L. c. 19, ])p. 341-356. 
This is an account of the authoFs views of the external 
anatomy of Coleopteray with explanatory tables and two outline 
plates, which appear to be somewhat incorrectly lettered. 
Trimen, Roland. On the occurrence of Astraptor illuminator, 
Murray, or a closely allied species, near Buenos Ayres. 
P. L. S. X. pp. 503 & 504. 
A light-giving larva, closely allied to, if not identical with 
that mentioned by Murray (/. c. p. 74), is recorded by Trimen 
from Buenos Ayres. Such vague evidence as is produced in 
