390 
ZOOLOQICAJi LITEI^ATURE. 
npt pply from tlie greRt iRumtey of neiy spocios flescyibed m 
but on account of the exceedingly careful and tborpugb-gpiug 
paauner in which be has werbed upon bis materials, and fbe 
clearness with n^hich he bas cpmmunipated the results pf b^S 
investigations. Of a group numbering Id previously described 
species, M. Chapuis now describes 202 1 of these be bas in 
many cases determined and brought together the two sexes, 
which generally differ considerably \ and the analytical tables for 
the determination of the species are prepared from the charac- 
ters of both sexes. The plates with wbich the work is illus- 
trated contain admirably characteristic figures of all the species. 
CnAUDoiR, Baron de, Catalogue de la Collection de Cicin- 
deletes de M. le B^ron de Chaudoir, Brnssels, IVfarcb 
1865, pp. 64, 8yo, 
In this catalogue the author enumerates all the species of 
Cicindelid^e in his collection, which contains probably the bnest 
series of these insects in the world. An appendix contains de- 
scriptions of several new species a^d the characters of some 
new generic groups, 
Kraatz, Cti Beyision der Tenebrioniden der alten Wdt aus 
Jjacordaire^s Gruppen der Erodiides, Tentyriides, Akisides, 
Pimeliides, nnd der europaisclien ^ophosis-Artpn, Berlin^ 
1865, 8vo, pp. vi & 393. 
In this work, which must be looked upon only as an instal- 
ment of a complete revision of the Tenebrionidce of the eastern 
hemisphere, the author has endeayopred to bring into something 
like order the chaotic mass of species belonging to four of La- 
cordaire^s tribes. This, however, is not completed, the revision 
of the Egyptian and Algerian Pimelice being stiU kept back, 
The arrangement adopted is, with few modifications, that of 
Lacordaire^s genera j and tabular analyses of the genera in each 
of tbe larger tribes are given. In treating of the larger genera 
the author, after a discussion of the generic characters, &c., 
commences witb ^ general revision of Solier^s species, ipfer- 
spersed with similar frotes upop the species described by other 
authors, This is followed by an analytical f^ble of the species, 
and this, again, by their Latin diagnoses and synonymy as ela- 
borated in the first revision. In most cases in the larger genera 
the species are treated of in geographical sections. This is 
evidently a work of great labour and research, and it throws a 
new light on a difficult and obscure department of entomology. 
We can but hope that Dr. Kraatz may be enabled to treat the 
remainder of tlie family in the same spirit. 
Thomson, James, Systema Cerambycidarum ou expose de 
tons les genres compris daus la famiUe dcs Oerambycides et 
