Curtis's British Entomologj/. g85 



Sowerby. The remaining genus. Teredo^ is extended in its sig- 

 nification so as to embrace also the Septaria^ Lam., and the 

 Fistulana gregata, of the same authour. 



British Entomology ; or lllusiraiions and Descriptions of the 

 Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland,— By 

 JoHK Curtis J F.L.S. Nos.xxv — xxxvi. (Vol. iii.) 



On the beauty and fidelity of the plates which form the most 

 prominent feature of this work, it is unnecessary for us again to 

 remark, after the repeated testimonies which we have felt our- 

 selves called on to advance in their favour. The utility of the 

 accompanying letter-press requires also no further praise from us. 

 They have jointly attracted the attention of the scientific world to 

 an extent sufficiently great to ensure the continuance of the pub- 

 lication with that regularity which has marked its progress since 

 its commencement. To notice its numbers as they successively 

 appear can now no longer be necessary, and our future analyses 

 will therefore be directed, like the present, to an entire volume, 

 the produce of a year. 



In this third volume the authour has, as usual, illustrated forty- 

 eight of the genera of Insects found in the British Islands. Of 

 these a considerable proportion were unnoticed by any previous 

 writer of our own country, and among the species figured about 

 one half were unrecorded in our printed entomological cata- 

 logues. Many of them are moreover entirely new, having never 

 before been either figured or described. They are divided nearly 

 equally between the two great classes, Mandibulata and IlausteU 

 lata^ and embrace examples of seven of the orders. The greater 

 number are of course taken from the Coleoptera^ as in this order 

 the genera have been more subdivided than in any other. Seven- 

 teen of these are described, the whole of which had been before 

 indicated j although several of them had not received those 

 scientific definitions which are here given. Ilelobia and Bledius 

 may be referred to as instances ', the former being illustrated by the 



