Excerpt from Descriptive Notices of North American Coleoptera, Vol. 1: With Plate VIIIn this connection it may be stated that it is my intention to include, if possible, Within the faunal region considered, the entire North American continent terminating on the south in the isthmus of Panama and including the islands of the west-indian archipelago, as this appears to consti tute a more natural region than that which is limited on the south by the Mexican boundary of the United States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.