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The fauna of predatory bugs (Heteroptera, Miridae
and Anthocoridae) in Norwegian apple orchards.
Fauna norv. Ser. B 27,3-8. 1980.
Marit Presthegge Austreng & Lauritz S0mme.
In the paper referred to above we published a .Jist of
species including Anthocoris butleri LeQuesne and A.
( Book reviews )
Turin, H. 1981. Provisional checklist of the European
ground-beetles (Coleoptera, Cicindelidae & Carabidae).
Monographieen van de Nederiandse Entomologische
Vereniging No. 9, 249 pp. Price: Dutch
Guilders 60, - (Can be obtained from Ned. Ent.
Ver., Plantage Middenlaan 64, IQI8 DH Amsterdam,
Nederland).
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visci Douglas. Later Dr. c.-c. Coulianos. The University
of Stockholm, has kindly checked the material,
and conclude that our identification was wrong.
The two species should still be considered as unknown
to the Norwegian fauna. The erroneous identification
is the responsibility of the authors, not of colleagues
acknowledged in the original paper.
The main part of this extensive work on the distribution
of European ground-beetles is a list of
more than 2500 alphabetically ordered species
within systematically arranged genera. For each
species the geographical distribution is given for
20 European regions (that may overlap). The
data have been compiled from the most recent
treatments of the faunas in each region. Fennoscandia
is treated as one region. In addition
Sweden and Denmark are treated as two separate
regions. For Fennoscandia the data is taken
from CH. Lindroths «Die Fennoscandischen
Carabidre» and «Catalogus Coleopterorum Fennoscandiae
et Daniae» with corrections in 1970
by A. Strand. (Later corrections could not be taken
into account). Unfortunately this makes it
impossible to say if a species is found in Norway,
only if it is found in Fennoscandia. Two
indices containing all generic, specific and subspecific
names (including commonly used synonyms)
makes it easy to find ones way to the
wanted name. I presume this list will be of great
help for everyone interested in which groundbeetle
to find where, whether it is from a purely
scientific or a collectors point of view.
A table with the numbers of species for each •
of the 199 genera which occur ill the respective
regions (plus North America) gives an interesting
comparison between faunas. Here you
might for instance find that Italy holds 76 Trechl{s-species!
You will find a lot of additional interesting in-.
formation in this book, as for instance an extensive
list of valuable catalogues, atlases and
checklists for each region, and references to
where species and geI'eca are described for the
first time. I will recommend this book to everyone
interested in European ground-beetles.
Arild Andersen
Lange, R. H. & 1. Blodorn, 1981.
Das elektronen mikroskop TEM + REM. Leitfa­
den fUr Biologen und Mediziner. (in German),
G. Thieme, Stuttgart. 327 pp. DM. 28.80
(F1exibles Taschenbuch) ISBN 3 13 597001 9.
The authors state that their book treats the instrumental
technique more thoroughly than the
preparation techniques, and this is certainly
true. About 90 % of the text is concerned with
the prinsiples of instrumental construction and
operation.
Introductory chapters on vacum-technology,
electron emission, interaction between electron
beam and matter and electron lenses provide a
very useful background knowledge often missed
by biologists. The transmission and scanning
electron microscopes and their constituent parts
are then described in detail, as are the most important
steps in the operation of their electron
optics and detector systems. Detailed accounts
on electron diffraction in general, on the assembly
of asymetrical biological building blocks
and on the quantitative evalution of various
samples are also presented. Brief summaries of
specimen preparation techniques for TEM and
SEM and a survey of electron microscopic literature
complete the book.
It is my opinion that most biologists, even
those with long practise in electron microscopy,
will find many valuable informations in most
chapters of this book, information which in
many cases will enable them to get better results
of their instruments.
Tow minor drawbacks should not alter this
overall positive impression of the book; I find no
justification for almost twenty pages of mainly
technical specifications of partly outdated commercial
TEM-models in a book like this and I
find the German text at places to be unnecessarily
heavy and difficult to understand.
Per R. Flood
Assoc.prof of anatomy
Fauna narY. Ser. B 29 .. 136. Oslo 1982.