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Art. III. Notice sur le Tettigopsis, nouveau genre (T OrtJiopteres 

 de la Riissie. Par G. Fischer de Waldheim. IMoscow, 1830. 

 4to. One Plate. 



This notice appears to have been read to the Imperial So- 

 ciety of Naturalists in Moscow, at its sitting immediately fol- 

 lowing the election of its new president, Prince Galitzin ; and 

 is published principally, perhaps, as a specimen of a large 

 work on the orthopterous insects of Russia, preparing by 

 M. Fischer de Waldheim, the learned director of that Society. 

 The memoir contains the announcement of a new genus 

 (Tettigopsis) belonging to the family of locusts, the charac- 

 ters of which are given in detail, and four species described. 



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Of these, one, brought from the steppes near Sarpa, is con-^ 

 sidered new and rare. The annexed outline, reduced one 

 half from the original figure, will convey a distinct idea of th^ 

 general appearance of the insect to our readers. {Jig, 50.) 



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Art. IV. Illustrations of Zoology, By James Wilson, F.R.S.E. 

 Nos. VIII. and IX. Large 4<to. 



These numbers complete the first volume of this work, 

 which, in our estimation, is too splendid and costly to havfe 

 much, we had almost said any, influence in forwarding the 

 study of natural history. Mr. Wilson writes so well and 

 agreeably, that it is to be wished he would undertake to com- 

 pose a book of size and price moderate enough to permit of 

 its circulation among those lovers of nature who (happily cir- 

 cumstanced) have to labour for their luxuries, and have no 

 notion to barter their moderate gains merely for fine paper 

 and print, and pretty engravings. The approbation of the 

 class of readers alluded to is, perhaps, as gratifying as the 

 praises of the saloon. 



No. viii. commences with a spirited and excellent figure 

 of the grey American wolf, the finest plate, with one only ex- 

 ception, in the whole collection ; and it is explained by eleven 



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