ENTOMOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. 21 



calculated to diffuse a superficial knowledge of, and perhaps excite a taste for, 

 Entomology, are of scarcely any use to those who have attentively perused the 

 elementary works above mentioned. 



Captain Thomas Brown's Book of Butterflies and Moths (London : 1832), is a 

 catch-penny compilation, illustrated with plates which perhaps might have satis- 

 fied the entomologists of the seventeenth century, but to those of the present 

 appear remarkable alone for their inferiority. Of a very different character are 

 the beautiful and interesting volumes of Sir W. Jardine's Naturalist's Library 

 devoted to insects ; their surprisingly low price places them within the reach of 

 all interested in the science ; need it be added that all will do well to procure 

 them. 



The late edition, by Griffiths and others, of Cuvier's Insecta (2 vols. Lon- 

 don : Whittaker and Co.), although of little use for the determination of species, 

 contains, under the supplements to the orders, much that is valuable, and may 

 be perused with advantage. 



The utility of the Guide to an Arrangement of British Insects, by Mr. Cur- 

 tis, has been fully shewn at p. 336 of the 2nd Vol. of The Naturalist; why is 

 the similar Catalogue of Stephens, the first part of which appeared in 1834, 

 suffered to remain in a state of incompletion ? 



During the present year, the fourth part (containing the Insects) of Fauna 

 Boreali- Americana, by Mr. Kirby, has been published ; not having seen it, I 

 am unable to speak to its merits, but doubt not, from the known talents of the 

 author, that it will form a valuable addition to our entomological literature. 

 This brings my brief and necessarily very imperfect retrospect of works pub- 

 lished on Entomology to a close. It ought perhaps to be remarked that several 

 important works which illustrate the study of insects, in connexion with the 

 other classes of the animal kingdom, have been omitted in this summary, as 

 they are sufficiently noticed in Mr. Neville Wood's excellent paper on Zoolo- 

 gical Literature, which has been previously referred to. I conclude by expressing 

 a desire that this paper — imperfect as it is — will answer the end for which its 

 compilation was requested, and has been undertaken. 

 Bewsey House, near Warrington, 

 Dec. 4, 1837. 



