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LIX. Notices respecting New Books. 



Part I. of a Descriptive Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects con- 

 tained in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company, Il- 

 lustrated by Coloured Figures of New Species and of the Meta- 

 morphosis of Indian Lepidoptera, with Introductory Observations 

 on a General Arrangement of this Order of Insects. — By Thomas 

 Horsfield, M.D. F.R.S. L.S. & G.S. Member of the Royal- 

 Asiatic, and Zoological Societies of London, and of the Imperial 

 Academy Naturce Curiosorum ; Corresponding Member of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and of the Histo- 

 rical Society qf Pennsylvania, fyc. To be completed in Six Parts. 



THE subjects which this work will bring before the public are 

 arranged in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Com- 

 pany. They consist principally of a general series of Lepidopte- 

 rous insects from the island of Java, accompanied by an exten- 

 sive set of drawings representing their metamorphosis, the history 

 of which is detailed in the Introduction. To this will be added 

 various subjects contained chiefly in a collection of insects from 

 Ceylon, presented by M. Jionville, and in a smaller miscellaneous 

 collection from continental India, presented by Claude Russell, 

 Esq., the brother of Dr. Patrick Russell. It is likewise the author's 

 intention to include such additions as may be made from time to 

 time to the Museum during the progress of his work, from the ter- 

 ritories of the Honourable Company in the Eastern World. 



The work will be published in royal quarto, and will consist of 

 six parts, each containing about eighty pages of letter-press; the 

 distribution of the subjects being the following : 



Part I. Introduction : detailing the outline of a general 

 arrangement of Lepidopterous insects according to their 

 metamorphosis. Description of the First Tribe, or of the Le- 

 pidoptera Diurna. Stirps the Jirst, with Vermiform 

 Larvje. Genera Polyommatus and Lyccena. 

 Part II. Conclusion of the Vermiform Stirps. Second Stirps 

 of Lepidoptera Diurna with Chilogn athiform or Iuli- 

 form Larvae. Third Stirps with Chilopodiform or 

 Scolopendriform Larv^:. Fourth Stirps with Thysa- 



NURIFORM LARV-ffi. 



Part III. Fifth Stirps of Lepidoptera Diurna, with Anoplu- 

 riform Larv^. 



Second Tribe of Lepidoptera or Sphingidje. 

 Part IV. Third Tribe or Bombycid^e. 

 Part V. Fourth Tribe or Noctuid^e. 

 Part VI. Fifth Tribe or Phaljenida. 

 Each part will be illustrated by four plates consisting of highly 

 finished engravings by artists of eminence. Three of these will be 

 coloured with accuracy and elegance ; the fourth^ more elaborate 

 as an engraving, will be gi/en plain. 



The first plate is devoted to the illustration of new species, and 

 such subjects will be preferred as are typical of the groups defined 



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