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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
H. S. Gorham publishes notes on Coleoptera collected at Southend (Ent. 
M. lVIa<?. iv. p. 110), and R. IIislop a list of Beetles taken in Morayshire 
(/.o.pp. 110-112). 
Rye publishes (Ent. M. Mag. iv. pp. 1G4, 1G5) a list of Coleoptera cap- 
tured at Putney, lie also notices various Coleoptera captured by him at 
West Wickham (/. c. pp. G4-GG), Wimbledon (/. c. iii. p. 214), and in Coombe 
Wood, Surrey (/. c. iv. pp. 83-85). 
D. Sharp publishes a list of Coleoptera collected by him in the south of 
Scotland in the spring of 18G7, with indications of those new to the Scotch 
Insect-fauna. Ent. M. Mag. iv. pp. 107-109. 
V. C. DE Rivaz notices his finding a great quantity of Beetles of various 
groups collected on the sand of a small bay between Ramsgate and Margate. 
Ent. M. Mag. iv. pp. 17, 18. 
E. C. Rye (Ent. M. Mag. iii. pp. 231-235) has published a series of notes 
on the identification of the species of Coleoptera left without names by Water- 
house in his catalogue of British Beetles. 
Goureau (Insectes nuisibles &c.) refers to various species of this order 
which he regards as injurious to man, to the domestic animals, and to manu- 
factured articles. Several species of Di/tiscus are described as destroying the 
spawn and 3 'oiing fiy of freshwater fishes, Tenebrio 7nolitor as feeding on 
flour and meal, Clems apiarms and alvearius as injurious in bee-hives, 
Ptinm fur and the Anthroii as destructive of dried animal matters, seve- 
ral species of Anohium and PtiUnus as injurious to woodwork, species of Dcr- 
mestes as feeding on animal matters, Cantharis vesicatoria because its emana- 
tions may prove injurious, Lixus pai'aplecticus as being supposed by Linne 
the cause of the poisonous effects of Phellandriimi aquatieunij Sitophilus 
oryzcs as injuring rice in stores, Callidium sancjuineum and var labile as feed- 
ing upon wood, Qracilia py^mcca as living in osiers, and NecyduUs i-ufa as 
destroying woodwork. Curiously enough, the common gi’ain- Weevil (*S^//o- 
philus yrunarius) is altogether omitted, as well as a few other species which 
have at least an equal right with some of those described to figure in such a 
work as this. 
Landois, in liis memoir on the sounds produced by Insects 
(Zeitschr. fiir wiss. Zool. xvii. pp. 123-134) discusses those 
emitted by various species of Beetles. The Longicorn Beetles 
(pp. 124-126), as is well known, produce their peculiar sound 
by the friction of the sharp inner posterior edge of the prothorax 
over a transversely ribbed antescutellar process of the meso- 
thorax. These fine ribs or ridges occur in all Longicornia, al- 
though the sound produced by many of them (even Prionus 
coriarius) is not perceptible by the human ear. Landois gives 
the following measurements of the ridges in a large and a small 
species : — 
Length of ridged space .... 
Breadth of ridged space .... 
Number of ridges 
Thickness of each ridge .... 
Cerambyx hei'os. 
3 -4 millim. 
3 
238 
0014 .. 
Gi'ammoptei'a rujicoi'nis. 
0-375 millim. 
0-25 „ 
113 
00033 „ 
In Necrophorus (pp. 127-129, pi. 10. figs. 6 & 7) the fifth ah- 
