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COLEOPTERA. 
Pleuropterus dohrnif sp. n., C. Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. xix. p. 58, 
figs, a & b, Congo. 
Paussus wmrdeni^ sp. n., id. S. E. Z. xxxvii. p. 42, Congo. 
Staphylinid^e. 
Sahlberg, John. Enumeratio Coleopterorum Brachelytrorum Fennijn. 
Systematisk forteckning ofver de inom Finlands naturalhistoriska 
omrade hittills funna Coleoptera Brachelytra, jemte uppgift om 
arternas utbredning och beskrifningar af nya och mindre kiinda 
species, i. Staphylinidae. Helsingfors: 1876, 8vo, pp. 1-248. 
This is a part of vol. i. of the “ Acta Societaths pro Fauna et Flora 
Fennica,” which, commencing in 1876, is established for the nmre im- 
portant publications of the Society, the smaller essays, &c., being included, 
in the “Meddelanden fran Sallskapeb pro Fauna et Flora Fennica.” 
The “ Notiser ur Sallskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Forhaudlingar ” 
are replaced by these two publications. 
Sahlberg s work is a very careful and well executed account of the 
Finland species, giving bibliographical references and localities, and 
diagnoses of such as are not well known. 655 species are enumerated > 
including 42 new, and 2 new genera. The synthetic ideas of Fauvel are 
not adopted, but the work is otherwise well up to date. C. G. Thom- 
son’s arrangement is followed, and all his genera are adopted. 
Sharp, B. Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley. 
Coleoptera — Staphylinidoe. Tr. E. Soc. 1876, pp. 27-424. 
The author enumerates and describes 487 species, whereof 463 are new. 
and estimates the Brachelytrous fauna of Amazonia at not less than 
4000 or 5000 species. The Piestides contain the largest proportion of 
widely distributed species, and the Pcederides are by far the most nume- 
rous, the Ilomaliides only producing one species. 80 different genera are 
employed, whereof 12 are new. In various parts of this paper, the 
author refers to the importance of sexual characters and their modifi- 
cations, as bearing upon natural selection and connected points ; and he 
also reiterates his former opinion as to a genus being subservient to its 
species, and not properly definable until the limitations of the latter 
are thoroughly known. 
Precise localities for some of the species described are given by the 
author, P. E. Soc. 1876, pp. xxvii. & xxviii. 
The author describes (inter alia) the following new genus, which is 
placed here, as no suggestion as to its affinities is made : — 
Turellus, g. n., p. 423. Antennae clavate, 9- jointed ; all the tarsi 
4'jointed. Trophi indicating a relationship with the anomalous genus 
Evcesthetus. For T. hatesi, sp. n., p. 424, Ega. 
Mulsant, E., & Rey, C. Tribu des Br^vipennes. Ann. Soc. Agric. 
Lyon (4) viii. 1875 [1876 at bottom of title], pp. 145-856, pis. i.-vi. 
The student of Brachelytra who finds Fauvel’s “Faiine Gallo -Rh^- 
nane ” unnecessarily voluminous, will doubtless be puzzled to understand 
the necessity for another prolix and almost simultaneous work on the 
