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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
on the mandibles and the want of a labial process on the 
prosternum. The second section includes only the tribe Ela- 
ter ini. 
The total number of Danish Buprestidse enumerated by 
Schiodte is seventeen. The parts of the mouth of the follow- 
ing species are figured by him^ 1. c. pi. 5. figs. 1-7 : — Chryso- 
bothris affinis, Anthaxia quadripunctata, Melanophila appen- 
dicidatUi Ancylochira Jlavomaculatai A. ruslica, Ayrilus viridisy 
Trachys minutaj and Aphanisticus pusillus. 
Deyrolle, in his paper on the Buprestidie collected by Wal- 
lace in the Malasian region (Ann. Soc. Eut. Belg. tome viii.), 
cites 355 species of this family, of which no fewer than 323 are 
described as new. These are distributed under 39 genera, 20 
of which are also newly established by the author, in most 
cases for the reception of new species. The auther has also 
given tables of the genera forming the subfamilies Chrysode- 
mideSj Agr.ilides, and Trachydes^ in which he establishes several 
other generic groups not represented in the Malasian region. 
The greater portion of the knoAvn species are among the larger 
and more striking forms of the family ; the whole of the species 
of Chrysohothris (30) and Trachys (39) are new, and out of 
112 species of Agrilus only 1 {A, armatus, Fab.) had been pre- 
viously described. Very few of the species are widely distri- 
buted, most of them being confined to a single island or group 
of islands. 
De Marseul (DAbeille, tome hi.) has commenced the pub- 
lication of a monograph of the European species* of this family, 
which he carried in 1865 as far as the Polycestides. The cha- 
racter given of the family (p. 4) appears to be a paraphrase of 
Lacordaire’s, with the substitution of epimeres for tro- 
chantins in the description of the four anterior limbs. The 
general remarks on the structure of the insects and on their 
metamorphoses seem equally to be derived from Prof. Lacor- 
daire^s great work. The summary of the history of the classi- 
fication of the family contains tables of the subdivisions and 
genera adopted by Eschscholtz, Solier, Laporte and Gory, and 
by Lacordaire (pp. 15-23). 
The principles of classification adopted by De Marseul are 
the same as those employed by Lacordaire, and the final results 
at which he arrives are much the same; that is to say, his 
tribes are very nearly identical with Lacordaire^s groupes 
but a considerable apparent change is made by his regarding 
the genus Chalcophora of authors as representing the restricted 
genus Buprestis, and altogether cancelling the three primary 
* Under this term is to be understood not only strictly Euronean species, 
but also those of the whole basin of the Mediterranean, of W estern Asia, 
and of Egypt. 
