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COLEOPTERA 
By E. C. Rye. 
A. Works in progress. 
Fauvel, a. Faune Gallo-Rlienane, ou Species des Insectes qui 
Imbitcnt La France, La l^clgiquc, La Ilollaiide, Le Luxem- 
bourg, La Prusse Rbenanc, Le Nassau et Le Valais. Co- 
leopteres. Tome premier ; livraison. Caen. 
The concluding portion of the first volume of this work has, 
after considerable delay, appeared ; it completes the introductory 
portion, and contains chapters on external anatomy, biology and 
terminology, species and varieties, the laws of nomenclature and 
classification. The two plates (3 and 4) accompanying it con- 
tain examples of all the stages of existence in the Coleoptera, 
with anatomical details. The length of this first volume (281 
pages) appears to have given occasion to somewhat disparaging 
remarks from French critics. The work was originally published 
in Bull, de la Soc. Linn, de Normandie, 1868, p. 175 et seq. 
Gemminger, B., und Harold, E. von. Catalogus Coleopterorum 
hucusque dcscriptorum synonymicus ct systcmaticus. Tom. 
iv.-vi. 8vo. Munich, 1869. 
The ])ortion published in 1869 contains from the Scarabaidee 
to the Cioid(e, 
Harold, in Coleopt. Hefte, v. pp. 105-119, gives a list of 
corrections and additions to vols. i.-v. of this Catalogue, which, 
where practicable, wiU be noticed in their proper places. Crotch 
has supplied upwards of 200 corrections &c. in the Geodephaga 
alone, mostly referring to dates and media of publication. 
Harold (/. c. p. 117) fully acknowledges his obligations to Crotch, 
and (pp. 122-125) explains his changes in the names of certain 
genera and species. Gemminger (ibid.) also adds a note to the 
same purpose. {Cf. Wagner, in Sitz. kon. bay. Akad. Wiss. 
Miinchen, 1869, i. H. iv. p. 415; Dohrn, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, 
p. 123; Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 247.) 
L^Abeille. Memoires d^Entomologie par M. S.-A. de Marseul, 
avec la collaboration dc plusieurs membres de la Societe 
Entomologique de France et autres entomologistes dis- 
tingues. 
The publication of this work is so complicated that its editor 
(Nouvelles et faits divers, no. 1, Sep. 1869, p. iv) has been com- 
pelled to correct an attempt to enlighten its subscribers made in 
Deyrolle’s Petites nouvelles Entomologiques.^^ According to 
this correction, of the then published livraisons of 1869, nos. 1, 
