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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    his Species et Iconographie des Animaux Articules, in which careful figures, with dissections, are given of the genera Rhipicera, Sandalus, Scyrtes, Eucinetus, Ptyocerus, Selasia, Chamserhipis, Basodonta, Elodes, Bradytoma, Octoglossa and Cladotoma all of which are accompanied by excellent monographs. The Lampyrides (p. 511), have received an additional number of new species, and several new genera, including Anisotelus, Hope, and Podistra and Thelodria, Motchoulsky. The species allied to Lycus (p. 511), have been examined by Erichson in his Zool. Archives. The light of the glowworm has formed the subject of articles by Peters in Muller’s Arcliiv., by Matteuci (in a letter to M. Dumas), and by Deickhoff (Entomol. Zeit., 117.) The genus Malachius, Fabricius, belonging to the tribe Melyrides (p. 513), has been monographed by Dr. Erichson, who has described a great number of new species; the whole being divided into sixteen different ge- nera. (Entomographien, Part I.) The Clerii (p. 513), have received considerable additions, and have been monographed both by Dr. Klug, and the Marquis Spinola, the latter of whom has figured every species known to him ; but Dr. Klug has been able, from the rich stores of the Berlin Museum, to describe and figure a great number of species not contained in Spinola’s work. Dr. Klug has adopted only twelve genera in the tribe regarding most of the groups of Laporte, Spinola, Chevrolat, Newman, &c., as sections. The genera adopted, and the number of species in each, respectively con- tained in the Berlin Cabinet, are as follows :—Cylidrus, five species ; Tillus, twenty-eight species ; Priocera, four species; Clerus, seventy species; Ptychopterus Klug (a new genus), one species from Caffraria; Axina, one species; Opilus, nineteen species; Erymanthis King (a new genus), one species from Caffraria; Trichodes, twenty species; Corynetes, nineteen species; Cylistus Klug (a new genus), one species froni Caffraria ; and Enoplium, fifty species—Total, 219 species, of which, more than half are new. A supplement contains descrip- tions of fifty-nine other species, described by previous authors, and not seen by Dr. Klug. The following is a summary of the geographical range of the species—120 are natives of the New World, and ninety-nine of the Old. Of the Asiatic species, only four are from India ; one from Ceylon ; and six from Java. Of the African species only two are from Central Africa, but eight are described in the supplement from Senegal; seventeen are from Ma- dagascar ; twenty-three from South Africa ; and two from Arabia. Only eight species are contained in the Berlin Museum, from New Holland, but fourteen others are given in the supplement described by other writers. The English collections are much richer in the Asiatic and New Holland species. A number of the latter have been described by Mr. Newman. M. Chevrolat has also described a number of additional new species from various localities, in the Annals of the French Entomological Society, and Revue Zoologique. The generic arrangement of M. Spinola appears to me far from satisfactory. The Scydmsenidse (p. 515), have been studied by Schaum, who has published memoirs upon the family in his Analecta Entomologica, and in Germar’s Zeitschrift, and in the Entomologische Zeitung ; and Chaudoir has described the Livonian species in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society. The Histeroides of North America have been monographed by Leconte, accompanied by a series of outline figures very carefully executed. The Silphales (p. 516), have been investigated particularly in respect to their anatomical details by Matzek, in his Necrophororum particula prima, Breslaw, 1839, and by Schmidt in his Inaugural “ Dissertatio Silpharum monographiae particula prima,” Warsaw, 1841. Some curious genera apparently allied to this tribe, have been described and figured, but not in a sufficiently precise manner, by Motchoulsky, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society. A blind insect belonging to this family, found in the Mammoth cave in Kentucky, has been described under the name of Adelops, by Tellkampf, in Wiegmann’s Archives. The Nitidulariae (p. 517), have been revised by Erichson, in Yol. XY. of Sturm’s German Fauna, and in Germar’s Zeitschrift, Yols. IV and Y, where the tribe is divided into six primary groups, and a number of new genera added, founded chiefly upon exotic insects. The Engidites and Dermestini have been also revised by the same author, in his work on the Coleoptera of Germany, now in course of publication. The Byrrhii (p. 519), have been monographed by Steffhany in Germar’s Zeitschrift, Yol. IY, where several new genera are proposed. The Acanthopoda (p. 519), consisting of the single genus Heterocerus, has been monographed by Von Kiesen- wetter in Germar’s Zeitschrift. Vols, IV and Y, where twenty-five species are described. A monograph on the genus Georyssus, is given by Motchoulsky in the Moscow Transactions, 1841. The Palpicornes (p. 520), have been very carefully investigated by M. Mulsant, of Lyons, who has published a treatise upon them in his work on the French Coleoptera. In this work the Palpicornes are divided into two primary sections. 1. The Hydrophilides, having the basal joint of the tarsi of the hind legs shorter than the second joint. Fam. I.—Spercheens, consisting of the genus Sperchius, with one species. Fam. II.—Helophoriens, genus Helophorus, eight species ; Hydrochus, five species ; Ochthebius, eleven species Hydrsena, seven species. Fam. III.—Hydrophiliens, genus Limnebius, four species ; Berosus, four species ; Hydrophilus, one species; Hydrous, two species; Hydrobius, three species ; Laccobius, one species ; Helophilus, one species; Philhydrus, two species ; Cyllidium, one species. 2. The Geophilides, with the first joint of the hind tarsi longer than the second. Fam. IV. Spheridiens. Genus Cyclonotum, one species; Sphaeridium, two species; Cercyon, fifteen species; Pelosoma, one species ; Megasternum, one species ; Cryptopleurum, one species. The family LAMELLICORNES (p. 521), has received very numerous and valuable additions, several works