The animal kingdom arranged after its organization. Forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy / By the late Baron Georges Cuvier, Tr. and adapted to the present state of science. The Mammalia, birds, and reptiles, by Edward Blyth, the fishes and Radiata, by Robert Mudie, the molluscous animals by George Johnston, M.D., the articulated animals, by J. O. Westwood, F.L.S.

  • Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832.
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1849
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Credit: The animal kingdom arranged after its organization. Forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy / By the late Baron Georges Cuvier, Tr. and adapted to the present state of science. The Mammalia, birds, and reptiles, by Edward Blyth, the fishes and Radiata, by Robert Mudie, the molluscous animals by George Johnston, M.D., the articulated animals, by J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    III. Pedestres, Mesothorax in front, contracted; retiring from the prosternum and permitting a freer motion of the prothorax, approaching the structure of the Cicindelidse ; including the Harpalidae, Scaritidce, and Brach- inidae of Mac Leay. The Carabici of Denmark have been carefully revised by Schiodte. The Premices Entomologiques of Putzeys (Mem. Soc. Liege, Vol. II), contains a monograph of Pasimachus, and an allied genus and a great number of new species belonging to this tribe. The same author has also more recently published a very extensive monograph on the genera allied to Clivina. A remarkable genus allied to Procrustes from Xanthos, has been described by White (Ann. Nat. Hist. Vol. XV). Various new African species allied to Anthia are described by Bertoloni, the American species allied to Scarites subterraneus, by Le Comte, (Boston Journal); and many new Russian species by Kolenati (Meletemata En- tomological. A group of small extent, but very singular structure, and remarkable for the strong resemblance to aquatic beetles, has been proposed under the name of Heteromorphidae to include the American genus Drepanus, and the Australian Adelotopus and Silphomorpha (Westwood in Linn. Trans. Vol. XVIII). The Carabidae of the Voyage of the Beagle, collected by Mr. C. Darwin, have been described by Waterhouse in various papers in the Annals of Natural History. The Scaritidae of New Holland, several of which are of singular beauty, have been illustrated in my Arcana Entomologica, and the Australian Promecoderi, by Guerin, (Revue Zool.); the Carabici of India are carefully described by Schmidt Gobel in the first part of his work upon the collection in the Museum of Prague ; the species allied to Helluo (p. 195), have been revised by Reiche, and divided into nine genera. (Annales of the French Ent. Soc.) Many additional exotic genera and species have also been described by Bohemann and by Chaudoir, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, 1812 and 1843. Hope, Newman, Lucas, Clievrolat, Menetries, Gebler, Redtenbacher, Erichson, White, and others, have also described many new detached species and genera. The species of California and Sitka have been monographed by Mannerheim, and those of Columbia by Reiche. The British species have been revised by Schaum, in the Entomol. Zeitung. Amongst the most remarkable of these new genera, is Anopthalmus of Sturm, founded on a blind species which inhabits the • Lue-ger Caves, in Krania. A second blind species was also found in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, by Tellkampf. The family Dyticidje (p. 504), has received some additions of Danish species by Schiodte, in “Danmark’s Eleutherata.” The species found near Erlangen have been monographed by Rosenhauer, and various detached species have been described by other authors. The singular external marks of distinction in the sexes of some of the species have been described by Count Mannerheim ; and Dr. Schmidt has investigated the causes of the sound emitted by Pelobius Hermanni. Dr. Schaum has revised the British species, and also published notes on the synonymy of many of the European ones in the Entomol. Zeitung. The Gtbinid*, (p. 506). The German species have been revised by Suffrian (Entomol. Zeit.), and Von Keisen- wetter has published some interesting observations on the habits of Oreetochilus Villosus in the same work. The Brachelttra (p. 506), have received great additions since the first edition of this work. Erichson’s Genera and Species Staphylinorum has been completed in two 8vo. volumes. In this work, the Brachelytra are divided into eleven primary tribes, characterized chiefly by the conspicuous or hidden position of the breathing pores of the prothorax, the insertion of the Antennse, the form of the anterior and posterior coxae, and of the posterior trochanters. These tribes are named from their typical genera.—1. Aleocharini; 2. Tacliyporini; 3. Staphylinini; 4. Psederini; 5. Pinophilini; 6. Stenini ; 7. Oxytelini; 8. Piestini; 9. Phkeocharini; 10. Oma- lini; II. Proteinini. The Linneean species of this tribe have been revised by me in an article published in the Transactions of the Entomological Society. Mr. Holme has also published some interesting notes in the 3rd Volume of the same work; and Mr. Haliday has published some valuable “Notes on the Staphylinidse,” in the Entomologist. The numerous species of this tribe which reside in ant’s nests, have formed the subject of many papers in Germar’s Zeitschrift, and in the Entomol. Zeitung by different authors. Numerous species from Sitka Island, are described by Count Mannerheim ; others from Angola by Erichson ; and others from New Granada by Guerin. The German species have been revised by Kiesenwetter, in the Entomol. Zeitung. An excellent article on the curious genus Micralymma Westw., has also been published by Schiodte, (Linnasa Entomol.) The Boprestides (p. 508), have been enriched with many new and beautiful exotic species by Spinola, Guerin, Chevrolat, Buquet, Erichson, Lucas, and White. The transformations of various species have been described by Pechioli, Lamotte Barace, Lucas, Leon Dufour, and Bertolini. A discussion on the structure of these larvae between L. Dufour, Goureau and Blanchard, has been published in the Annals of the French Entomol. Society. The splendid (but as regards its generical anatomical details, carelessly executed) work of Gory and Laporte, has been brought to a conclusion, and a review of it been published by Spinola in the Revue Zoologique. The Elaterides (p. 510), have undergone an extensive revision by Germar and Erichson, in the Zeitschrift fur die Entomologie. The luminous species allied to E. Noctilucus, of which the number is now known to be consi- derable, have been formed into a separate genus named Pyrophorus. Various detached exotic species have been described by different authors. The splendid genus Campsosternus, and the remarkable gigantic species with fla- bellate antennse, have been monographed by Mr. Hope in the Trans. Entomol. Soc., and Proceedings of the Zool. Society ; and some very beautiful Indian species have been figured in my Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. The Natural History of many species injurious to the Agriculturist, has been published by Mr. Curtis in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. The sub-genera allied to Galba and Eucnemis (p. 510), have been revised by Guerin in the Annals of the French Entomological Society, in which the species, all of which are highly interesting, are divided into seventeen genera. The Ceerionites (p. 511), have been investigated with much care by M. Guerin, in the first three numbers of