THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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Siebenbiirgen. A list of species and varr. in Verb, siebenb. Ver. xxvii. 
p. 92 et seq. 
Tyrol. V. Gredler, Z. Ferd. (3) xxii. pp. 102-119, gives a 5th Supple- 
ment to his enumeration of the beetles of Tyrol, On species near 
Trient ; S. de Bertolini, Ent. Nachr. ii. p. 81. 
Gallicia. Additions to the fauna; M. Lomnicki, Sprawozd. Kom. 
fizyogr. xi. [1877] p. (151). 
Hungary. J. Frivaldszky, Term. Kozl. xiii. p. 303 et seq., gives a list 
of beetles observed in the counties of Temes and Krasso ; A. Moesdry, 
op. cit. XV. p. 232 etseq., in like manner records those of Zolyom and Lipto. 
Carpathians. Additions to the fauna by E. Reitter, with help of 
Eppelsheim, De Saulcy, and Weise (some new species described) ; 
Deutsche E. Z. 1878, pp. 33-64. 
Upper Engadine. L. v. Hey den notes 7 new species for the local 
fauna ; JB. Ges. Graub. xx. pp. 103 & 104. 
Lebanon. E. Peyron, Pet. Nouv. ii. p. 270. 
Caucasus. See Schneider, supra. 
Kashgar. Preliminary diagnoses of the' new genera and species of 
Geodephaga and Longicornia taken by the late Dr. Stoliezka during the 
Forsyth Expedition, 1873-74, are given by H. W. Bates, P. Z. S. 1878, 
pp. 713-721. Of Dytiscidoe, Staphylinidee, and Scarahoeidee, by D. Sharp, 
J. A. S. B. xlvii. 2, p. 169 et seq. ; and of Chrysomelidce, by J. S. Baly, 
Cist. Ent. ii. p. 369. 
Cochin China ; species collected by Morice (one new genus of Cebri- 
onidee) described by L. Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. 269-274. 
Japan. E. v. Harold publishes the fourth instalment of his Memoirs 
on the beetle-fauna, in Deutsche E. Z. 1878, p. 65 et seq. Many synonyms 
and indications of identification are suggested. 
Abyssinia and Somali Land. R. Gestro describes 10 new species ; Ann. 
Mus. Genov, xiii, pp. 318-322. 
Tropical Africa. E. v. Harold, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. ii. pp. 38 & 99, 
describes new species. 
East Africa. 43 new species described, mostly taken by Hildebrandt 
at Zanzibar ; id,. MB. Ak. Berl. 1878, pp. 210-222, pi. 
Nyassa. A new genus of Longicorns, and various new species taken 
by Mr. H. B. Cotterill, described by H. W. Bates, Tr. E. Soc. 1878, 
pp. 189-192. 
Madagascar. L. v. Heyden, Ber. senck. Ges. 1877-78, p. 97 et seq . ; 
C. O. Waterhouse, Ent. M. M. xv. p. 84 ; Cist. Ent. ii. pp. 287 & 363. 
Canada. Additions by Provancher to his “ Faune Entomologique du 
Canada,” vol. i. ; Nat. Canad. x. pp. 369-385 (1 sp. n.). 
Michigan. J. L. Le Conte, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xvii. pp. 593-626, describes 
new species referred to in (1) a Catalogue by H. G. Hubbard and E. A. 
Schwarz, 1. c. pp. 627-643, of the Goleoptera found in the Lake Superior 
Region, and (2) Contribution to a List of the Goleoptera of the Lower 
Peninsula of Michigan, by the same authors, 1. c. pp. 643-666. Species 
are also described from Le Conte’s own collection, so that the list may be 
taken as complete, so far as is now known. A large proportion of the 
species is common to Alaska. 
