Coiffait, H. — Les Coléoptères du Sol

Editions scientifiques Hermann Paris (iv), 204, 103 text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig. wrappers, tape repairs to spine. Good.. Text French. Vie et Milieu, Bulletin du Laboratoire Arago, Supplément No. 7. Actualités scientifiques et industrielle No. 1260. A monograph on the ecology, biology and biogeography of soil-dwelling and endogean Coleoptera, with particular attention to the highly specialised subterranean fauna and its evolutionary relationship with other subterranean habitats. Henri Coiffait (1907-1989), one of the foremost French specialists on Staphylinidae and hypogean beetles, drew extensively on his own researches into the exceptionally localised Mediterranean and Pyrenean soil fauna to write this work..