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mainiiig for four months in spirits. In one specimen the moyement per- 
sisted for IG hours. Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. xxiii. Corr.-Bl. p. 424. 
Dr. Joseph has published some notes on tlie Carinthian cayes and their 
beetles. Jahresber. schles. Gesellsch. fUr yaterl. Cultur. 18G6, p. 8. 
C. A. Dohun publishes a short note on collecting caye-beetles. lie de- 
scribes the succession of species in adyancing from the entrance of the cayes, 
and recommends the setting of traps containing meat See. for the purpose of 
attracting the insects. Stett. ent. Zeit. 18GG, pp. G3-G4. 
Leconte (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 18GG, pp. 34G-349) publishes lists of 
Coleoptera collected in the mountains of Lycoming and in the neighbour- 
hood of Fort Whipple. 
IIye (Ent. M. Mag. iii. pp. G3-G7) giyes an account of the results of his 
collecting Coleoptera at Kannoch, Perthshire, with notes upon the mode of 
occurrence of many species, and notices of 3 species of Brachelytra new to 
Britain (one described as a new species). T. Blackburn also publishes notes 
on the same excursion (/. c. pp. 93-94). 
W. Keotze indicates the species of Coleoptera collected by him in the 
neighbourhood of Geesthacht, a yi 11 age on the Elbe about five miles above 
Hamburg. To a few of the species are appended notices of their mode of 
occurrence. Berl. ent. Zeits. 18GG, pp. 405-409. 
J. Geiuiardt also gives a list (/. c. pp. 409-411) of the rarer or more re- 
markable species collected by him in Silesia, Avith remarks upon the occur- 
rence of some of them. 
SciiiBA has continued his Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Hesse and its 
neighbourhood to the conclusion of the Heteromerous families. Ber. xi. 
oberli. Ges. Nat.- Heilk. pp. 1-59. 
Numerous neAv species of Coleoptera collected in Spain during the excur- 
sion of the French Entomological Society in 18G6 are described by Brisout 
de Barneville (Annales, vi. pp. 355-426), and a feAv belonging to the family 
CarabidfB by de Vuillefroy and Putzeys (L c. pp. 345--364). 
Desbrochers des Loges records the capture of seA^eral species of Coleo- 
ptera new to the French fauna, and the occurrence of seA'eral rare species in 
abundance. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 18G6, pp. xxxiii-xxxiv. 
lleports on the results of collecting in various parts of Germany are pub- 
lished in the Berliner entom. Zeitschift, 1866, pp. 292-299. The authors 
are W. Scriba (StaphjUnidce), Eiciiiiofe, J. Ge.riiarbt, E. Schavarz 
(from Silesia), and Kellner. A few remarks on slight variations are 
scattered through these notices. 
Bethe records some of the results of his collecting Coleoptera during the 
year 1866. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, pp. 202-204. 
L. A'-ON Heyden remarks upon the species of Coleoptera collected in Fin- 
mark by Staudinger and Wocke, and corrects some points in their nomen- 
clature as recorded by Schneider in the Stettiner entom. Zeitung for 1861 
Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, pp. 260-269). 
CiCINDELIDiE. 
Cicinclela. Leconte (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1866, pp. 362-363) 'refers 
to A^arious North-American species of this genus, noticing especially A^arieties 
of the following : — C. ohsokta and lom/ilahris (Say), C. nkfrocf^ruha (Lee.) and 
C. rugifrons (Dej.). He also refers to C. saulcgi (Guer.), Avhich he regards 
