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Sect. 1. Succincti. Chrysalis attached by the tail and girt round the body, divided into six tribes— Papilio- 



nides, Pierides, Eumenides, Lycamides, Eryeinides, and Peridromides. 

 Sect. 2. Suspensi. Chrysalis only suspended by the tail, divided into eight tribes— Danaides, Ilelicouides, 



Nymphalides, Brassolides, Morphides, Saty rides, Biblides, and Libjthides. 

 Sect. it. Involuti. Chrysalis enclosed in a Cocoon, oonsisting of only one tribe, Hesperides. 

 The Heterocera are divided in the latter work into the following tribes — Sesiariae, Sphingides, Zygaenides, 

 Lithosides, Chelonides, Liparides, Bombycini, Saturnides, Endromides, Zeuzerides, Psychides, Cocliopodes, 

 Drepanuhdes, Notodontides, Noctuae, divided into Noctuo-Bombycim, Bombycoides, Amphipyrides, Noctuides, 

 Hadenides, Leucanides, Caradrinides, Orthosides, Xylinides, Calpides, Plusides, Heleothides, Acontides, 

 Catocalides, and Noctuo-phalaenides. Geometra; (not divided into tribes). The Micro-Lepidoptera are not con- 

 tained in this work of Boisduval. 



Other general works upon the order are— 



Freyer's Neue Beitrage zur Schmetterlingskunde, in numbers. 



Fischer Edler von B osslerstamm's Abbildungen zur Berichtigung and Erganzung der Schmetterling. 



skunde, in numbers. 

 Ratzeburg's Forst Insecten, Vol. II., and in the Nova Acta, Vol. XIX. 

 British Butterflies and their Transformations, one vol. 4to, and British Moths and their Transformations, 



two vols. 4to, by J. 0. Westwood, with plates drawn by Humphries. 

 II. Doubleday's List of British Lepidoptera, October, 1847. 

 Eversmann, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, and Fauna Lepidopterologica Volgo-Uralensis, a 



valuable work which has almost entirely been destroyed by fire. 

 Herrich SchafFer's Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa. 

 Duponchel Catalogue Methodique des Lepidopteres d'Europe, Paris. 1845. 

 Guenee Europaeorum Microlepidopterorum, Index Methodicus, Paris, 1845. 

 Selye Longchamps Enumeration des Insectes Lepidopteres de la Belgique. 

 A valuable memoir by M Lefebvre, on the arrangement of the veins of the wings in this order, has been pub- 

 lished in the Annals of the French Entomological Society. A paper on the same subject has also been published 

 by Mr. E. Doubleday in the Transactions of the Linniean Society of London. 



Many interesting exotic species have been described by White in Gray's Travels in New South Wales, and by 

 Doubleday in Dieffenbach's Travels Kollarhas described many species in Ilugel's Travels in Cashmere and the 

 Himalayas. Others from Egypt are figured by Klug in the Symbolse Physicae. A beautiful work on the Lepidop- 

 tera of North America was commenced by Boisduval, but it extended only to the butterflies. A number of inte- 

 resting exotic species have also been figured in the volumes of Lepidoptera in Jardine's Naturalist's Library. 



A magnificent work on the genera of butterflies has been commenced by E. houbleday, of which twenty-two 

 numbers have appeared. It contains a complete list of the species of each genus, with figures of one or more types 

 in each. The species of Papilio inhabiting the Dutch Settlements in the East, have been described by De Huan 

 in the ^-reat national work on the Eastern possessions of Holland. 



A great number of new species, chiefly belonging to the genus Papilio, have been figured in my Arcana Ento- 

 mol"giea and Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. Mr. Edward Doubleday has also published descriptions of a great 

 number of new species of butterflies in the Annals of Natural History. A remarkable and extremely beautiful 

 genus from India has been first described and figured by Mr. Hope under the name of Teinopalpus, which merits 

 notice, as its situation in the system is at the head of the order. 



A memoir by Herrick Schaffer, on the distribution of the Satyridse, is also deserving of notice. 

 Some singular North American Bombycidse have been described by E. Doubleday in the Entomologist. The 

 same author has described a number of beautiful species of Gymnautocera in the Annals of Nat Hist. Many 

 fine species of Saturnia are figured in the Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. 



The classification of the Noctuidae has been undertaken by Guenee in the Annals of the French Entomological 

 Society, and a list of the British species has been published by II. Doubleday in the Zoologist The Micro 

 Lepidoptera have recently been carefully studied; and numerous papers by Zeller in the Linnoea Entomologies 

 Entomologisches Zeitung, and Isis, and by Mr. Staiuton and Others in the late numbers of the Zoologist are to bo 

 noticed. The Pterophoridae have also been revised by Zeller in the Isis, lsll. 



THE ORDER RHIFIPTERA. (P. C14.) 



The natural history of these very singular insects has been studied by Westwood (Trans. Ent. Soc), Von Siebold 

 (Wiegmann's Arch.), and Newport (Trans. Linn. Soc), and the supposed larva' with the bead protruded l» twei D 

 the rings Of the abdomen of the bees and wasps, are now proved to be the females Which produce In in; \ OUUg 



from their heads. A. paper by Hr. Thwaitea and one bj Dr. Templeton on a BraaUian species, lure been pub- 

 lished in the Transactions o i' the Entomological Society, and Mr. (fownaan baa commenced a memoir on the order 



with a view to the determination Of Its situation in the system, In which he has OTerlooked the real nature of 

 the transformations of the male insect, and has Consequently erred in the situation assigned to the order. 



THE ORDER DIl'TERA. (P. 615.) 



The completion of If. Macquart's work OH Bxotto Biptora, and the publication of ■ valuable •rotfc b] Zettentl dt 

 in seven volumes, 8vo, on the Diptera of Scandinavia, are BSpedaUj to be m< ntiotx d, as ml] as the [naecta 



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