96 REVIEWS. 



2. Insects which injure grain in a growing state, and in the granary. 

 Insects injurious to meadows [and pastures]. 



Insects injurious to culinary vegetables. 



3. Insects which injure the vine. 



Insects which particularly injure greenhouse and hothouse plants. 



Insects injurious to fruit-trees. 



Insects which are destructive to woods and forests. 



From the very neat and cheap manner in which the vohime 

 is got up, we trust it will become a favourite, not only with 

 the entomologist, but with every lover of agriculture, arbori- 

 culture, and horticulture. 



Art. III. — British Entomology : or Illustrations and Descriptions of the 

 Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland. By John Curtis, 

 F.L.S., &c. 16 vol. 8vo., or 192 monthly parts. London : printed for 

 the Author. Pigot and Co. 



We congratulate the author upon the completion of this, one 

 of the most elegant periodical works which has ever issued 

 from the British press. We may likewise congratulate our 

 readers on possessing so national, as well as so valuable, a 

 production. In the beauty of its figures, and the superior 

 style of finish of the colouring, it stands superior to any other 

 entomological work yet published ; w^hilst the anatomical 

 outlines will render it a work of constant reference to those 

 who do not content themselves wdth the mere names of species. 

 Much however still remains to be done before we possess 

 a complete iconographical illustration of the genera of British 

 insects. In Mr. Curtis's work very many groups of trivial 

 value have been figured, whilst others, types of well-marked 

 groups of considerable extent, have been omitted ; indeed we 

 would strenuously recommend the author to add another vo- 

 lume, in which these omitted groups might be illustrated. — 

 ScydiTKBuu^, Hispa, Slalis, Xiphydrla, Attacus, Sphex, Ly- 

 rops, Stifjmus, Limacodes^ Cilix, Scatopse, Anthomyia, Calo- 

 hata, and many others (as well as all the Ametabolous genera, 

 which Mr. Curtis considers as insects), ought to have been 

 illustrated; and even in many of the genera figured, we find 

 details omitted upon which the genera are chiefly founded : 

 a deficiency evidently originating in the higher value sup- 

 posed by the author to be possessed by the trophi, which he 

 has accordingly always represented in detail, although, in 

 many great groups, they clearly afford but secondary charac- 

 ters. The nervures of the wings of the Lepidoptera, and 

 their transformations, ought never to have been neglected ; 



