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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
ITie notes also contain descriptions of several new Beetles be- 
longing to the south of Europe. 
WiLKEN (Berl. ent. Zeits. 1864, p. 369 et seq.) gives a list of 
species of Coleoptera detected in the Upper Hartz duiing a three 
weeks^ residence near the Brocken in July 1864. The elevation 
was about 2900 feet. The universally distributed species are 
said to be omitted ; but the names of several very common forms 
figure in the list. The total number of species recorded is 195. 
Olivier-Delamarche has published a note of the principal 
forms of Beetles found by him on the sea-shore at Bone, in 
Algeria, after a great land-flood (Bull. Soc. Ent. Er. 1864, 
p. ix). 
Bye (Ent. Ann. 1864) i-ecords the addition of 40 species to the list of the 
British Coleopterous fauna duiing the year 1863 } of these about 12 had pre- 
viously been confounded with other recognized British species. In a ciiti- 
cism on the Catalogue of British Coleoptera by Crotch, the author objects 
especially to the treatment shown by the latter to British authoi-s, whose 
names, he thinks, are often suppressed, without sufficient reason, in favour of 
those given by continental authors. 
Crotch replies to some of Bye’s remarks in a paper On some new or rare 
British Coleoptera,” Zoologist, 1864, pp. 8998-9001 and 9057-58 ; and the 
same journal contains (pp. 9059-64) a rejoinder from the latter ento- 
mologist. 
The list of new British Coleoptera for 1864 (Ent. Ann. 1865) includes 
only 28 species. 
Bold has published a catalogue of “ Coleopterous insects added to the 
Fauna of Northumberland and Durham in 1863,” Trans. Tynes. Nat. Field 
Club, vol. vi. pp. 225-231. This list includes 54 species, chiefly Staphy- 
linidte. 
Keller has published a catalogue of the Coleoptera of Wurttemberg. 
WUrttemb. naturw. Jahreshefte, 1864, pp. 213-306. 
Mors and Miedel record the occun’ence in Belgium of numerous species of 
Coleoptera not previously noticed in that country. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, 
tom. vii. pp. 135 & 137. 
A long discussion on the synonymy of certain species of Eui’opean Coleo- 
ptera, on the part of Schaum and Kiesenwetter on the one side, and Beiche, de 
Saulcy, and Fairmaire on the other, is published in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4« ser. 
tome iii. pp. 669-686. 
CiCINDELIDiE. 
Cicindela nigrina, sp. n., MacLeay (Trans. Ent. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 107), from 
Port Denison. 
CARABIDiE. 
General notes on the family : — 
SciiAUM has described the larva of Procei’iis scabroms, Berl. entom. Zeitschr. 
1864, p. 114, pi. 2. fig. 4. ITis specimens are from the neighbourhood of 
Brussa, and measure 15 and 16 lines in length, and 5^ lines in breadth. In 
