608 Literary Notices* 



Art. II. Literary Notices* 



No. ix. of The Lntomological Magazine is a rich one. These 

 are the main of the subjects : — a Colloquia Entomologica. 

 Monographia Chalciditum, by Francis Walker ; twenty-nine 

 pages. Notes on Deilephila euphorbiae. Description of some 

 Coleopterous Larvae, by Mr. Waterhouse ; illustrated by 

 figures. Attempted Division of British Insects into Natural 

 Orders, by Edward Newman. This is the last of the longer 

 communications, and put so by way of climax, one might 

 imagine. In it, upwards of 150 orders are proposed, cha- 

 racterised, named, and their affinities indicated. In the 

 characters, we observe, that greater cognizance is taken of the 

 conditions of the larva and pupa than we had previously seen 

 done. Brief general views of the habits of the insects of each 

 order are included in the characters of it. This production 

 of Mr. Newman's must have a comprehensive effect upon 

 entomology, and must be welcome to all engaged in the study. 

 The first volume of the Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society of London will be shortly published. 



Of Royle^s Illustrations of the Botany arid other Branches of 

 the Natural History of the Himalayan Mount ains^ and of the 

 Flora of Cashmere, Part iv. is published. It includes gene- 

 ralisations upon the plants of the orders Dipterocarpeas, 

 TernstromzflV^/^, Olacineae, Aurantiacese, //ypericineae, Gut- 

 tiferae, Hippocrate^xV^'*^?, Erythroxyleae, MalpighiaV^<^, ^cer- 

 ineae, Hippocastaneae, and Sapindaceae ; and coloured figures 

 of nineteen species of plants. In TeYnsXxomidcecE, the author 

 has presented nineteen pages of collected information on the 

 question whether the teas of China are derived from plants of 

 one or of more species, and upon the conditions which relate 

 to the vegetation and the cultivation of these plants in China. 

 From it all, the author has concluded that, " in the Hima- 

 layas, where so great an analogy exists in latitude, elevation, 

 soil, climate, and the course of the seasons, as well as con- 

 siderable identity of vegetation, there cannot be a doubt of 

 success in introducing the cultivation of tea, with the strongest 

 probability of all its properties remaining unchanged." 



A work on The Revolutions of the Globe, in a Series of 

 Letters addressed to a Lady, to be included in one volume, 

 post 8vo, is to be published by Ridgway, in November. The 

 author states his object to be, " to give the public an idea of 

 the curious results to which the study of the terrestrial globe 

 has, in these latter times, led our most distinguished natu- 

 ralists ; and to write so as to be understood by persons even 

 the least conversant W4th the study of natural history." 



