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Connected ■with German local Faunas several contribu-tions are given in the Entomol. Zeitung : AphoristischeMittheilungen iiber die Umgebungen von Bad Ems inentomologischer Beziehung, von Suffrian (pp. 283-92).Entomologische Excursionen im Monat Juni 1842 in derUmgegend des Bades Kissingen, von Weidenbach (p. 125).Ueber Insecta die an den Salinen leben, von v. Heyden(p. 227). To the Fauna of Silesia belong communicationsfrom v. Uechtritz and Schlummel in the Uebersicht d. Arb.u. Verand. d. schles. Gesellsch. f. vaterl. Kultur , Yr. 1, 1843.
Redtenbacher, Remarks on the Coleoptera collected byTheodor Kotschy in Russegger’s Travels in Europe , Asia ,and Africa , vol. i, 1843.
In the general remarks the author recognizes very correctly the great cor-respondence of the Eauna with that of the Mediterranean in general, andespecially with that of the Morea. In this introduction the already knownspecies are mentioned accordingly, and their distribution everywhere accu-rately determined; his materials, however, were too scanty to allow of theauthor’s estimating the important relation which the Fauna of Syria bearsto that of central Asia ; of the Persian highlands on the one side, and thevalley districts of the Euphrates on the other.
A contribution to the Insect Fauna of Angola , withspecial relation to the geographical distribution of theInsects of Africa , by the Reporter, in these Archives.(Year 9, vol. i, p. 199.) Of the Insect Eauna of Congo some account, from materials sent by Curror and Cranch,has been given by Ad. White. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 262.)
A collective list of the known Insects of New Zealand ,by Adam White and Ed. Doubleday, has appeared inDieffenbach’s Travels in New Zealand , vol. ii, p. 265.
The greater part of the species enumerated were discovered in Bank ’sYoyage, and have been already described by Eabricius.
Coleoptera . —Heer (Entom. Zeit. p. 47) has institutedimportant researches on the hitherto little regarded pli-cation of the wings of the Coleoptera . These observationsare the more worthy of consideration, that the mode inwhich the wings are folded under the elytra is not without