"^'iSi!^,i:t" ^MMm in the Uni.

240
INSECTA, COLEOPTERA.
Portugal und den Cantabrischen Gebirgen, — mit Beschreibungen
der neuen Arten. B. E. Z. xiv. 1870 (Beiheft),
pp. 1-176, Taf. ii.
The first part, pp. 1-56, contains accounts of various journeys
by v. Heyden in the above-mentioned parts of Spain and Portugal,
with notes of the exact localities of the insects observed.
These are almost entirely Coleoptera, though some few names of
Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera are mentioned; the Hemiptera
are to be described hereafter by Kirschbaum. The
second part, pp. 57 (75 in error) -176, contains descriptions of
new species, 141 in number, found in these journeys by v.
Heyden and others : the descriptions are by v. Heyden, Dieck,
v. Kiesenwetter, Scriba, Kraatz, de Saulcy, v. Harold, Desbr.
des Loges, Haag, Seidlitz, Allard, Ch. Brisout, andKirsch (some
of those described by Dieck and Seidlitz are also referred to by
those authors in other papers of the same publication for 1870).
Three new genera are characterized, by v. Heyden, Kraatz and
Dieck, and another is indicated by de Saulcy; and various observations
are made upon species already recorded from the above
localities. Two new species of Choleva are also described (in a
note) by Kraatz, from Greece. At the end of the same Beiheft,
pp. 211, 212, are descriptions by Loew of 5 new species of Diptera
(gen. Oxycera, Opsebius, Heteropogon, Holopogon, and Stenopogon),
which, from their localities, their capture by v. Heyden, and
the quotation of Loew's name on the title of v. Heyden's paper,
would seem to have been intended to be included in the latter.
The plate (ii.) contains outline figures of 7 of the most prominent
of the species described, with some details.
HEYDEN, LUCAS VON. Revision der europaischen Hymenoplia-
Arten. L. c. pp. 177-183.
The author reduces the European species of Hymenoplia to
8 (without reckoning two of Blanchard's species, unknown to
him), of which he describes 3 as new.
. Ueber blinde oder augenlose Kafer. Ber. senck. Ges.
1869-70, pp. 44-47.
Treats of the distribution of cave-beetles and of eyeless
beetles not living in caves. All genera containing such insects
are enumerated, with the number of their species, and general
observations as to localities and habits.
JOSEPH, GUSTAV. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der in den Krainer
Gebirgsgrotten einheimischen Arten der Gattung Anophthalmus.
B. E. Z. xiv. pp. 261-270.
Contains descriptions of 2 new species. (N.B. This paper is
repeated in JB. schles. (Jes. xlvii. p. 173 et seq.)
KAWALL, J. H. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Kafer in den