COLEOPTERA. SOT' 
Physis, Recueil d^Histoire Naturelle par M. James Thomson. 
Premiere Partie. Paris : 1st August 1867. 
Under this title J. Thomson has commenced a publication 
which^ it may be presumed^ will be chiefly devoted to the rece]^- 
tion of his memoirs on Coleoptera. It will be published at irre- 
gular intervals. The first part contains two papers on Longi- 
corn Beetles and the description of a species of Chelonarium, 
Thomson, C. G. Skandinaviens Coleoptera. Tom.viii. pp. 409 
& Ixxv (1866), and tom. ix* pp. 407 (1867) i 
The eighth volume of this excellent work forms really the 
conclusion of the original design of the author, including the 
description of the Scandinavian Longicornia, Phytophaga, and 
Aphidiphaga, together with a complete systematic index to the 
eight volumes. The ninth volume constitutes a supplement to 
the first half of the work, containing, besides remarks on spe- 
cies and genera, a series of synoptical tables of the entire classi- 
fication. In these, which are entirely in Latin, the whole of 
the families, tribes, genera, and Species are tabulated, the tables 
of the species consisting for the most part of the characters of 
generic subdivisions adopted in the body of the work, but 
brought together here in a manner which will assist greatly in 
making use of the latter. This volume includes the characters 
of various genera and species detected in Scandinavia since the 
publication of the first four volumes ; some of these are de- 
scribed as new. 
B. Separate Works, 
Ferrari, Count J. A. Lie forst- und baumzucht-schadlichen 
Borkenkafer [TomicideSj Lac.) aus der Familie der Holzver- 
derber {Scoly tides. Lac.), mit besonderer Beriicksichtigung 
vorzuglich der EuropaischenFormen, und der Sammlung des 
k.-k. Zoologischen Kabinetes in Wien* Vienna, 1867, 
pp. 96. 
The nature of this work is sufficiently indicated by its title. 
Its contents will be analyzed in their proper place. 
Fermouze, Armand. De la Cantharide officinale, Cantharis 
vesicatoria. These de Pharmacie soutenue le 20 Juillet 
1867. 4to, pp. 53, with 5 plates. 
This thesis, which the Recorder has not seen, is noticed by 
Guerin in his ^ Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,^ 1867, p. 452. 
SiLBERMANN, — , & Wencker, — . Catalogue des Coleopteres 
de F Alsace et des Voges. (Strasbourg), 1866. 
The Recorder has not seen this work, which contains descrip- 
tions of some new species referred to by Von Heyden, Berl. ent. 
Zeitschrift, 1867, pp. 379 et seq. 
Wollaston, T, V» Coleoptera Hesperidum, being an enume- 
