REVIEWS. 3 



To the Coleoptera the largest additions of all have been made, and Mr. 

 Jauson has been, of necessity, confined to little more than a bare enume- 

 ration of the technical names, and the authorities from whom he has 

 quoted. Since 1839, the date of Stephens's " Manual/' 230 species, new 

 to Britain, have been discovered ; and we are glad to see, that though the 

 products of but a single district in Ireland have as yet been made public, 

 nine of the novelties have been furnished by that district alone. 



Want of space compels us to be thus brief, and we can hardly notice 

 the coloured plate forming the frontispiece, which contains figures (accu- 

 rately drawn from nature, by Messrs. Wing) of five of the new moths, 

 with two of the new beetles ; the most conspicuous of the Lepidoptera is 

 our Irish Authrocera Minos. 



Well may the British Entomologists feel grateful to the spirited origi- 

 nator of this excellent undertaking, and to his able coadjutors ; that their 

 appreciation of its merits will soon be made evident, we confidently hope ; 

 and, with every wish for its success, its enlargement, and its permanency, 

 we bid the new Annual no unmeaning farewell. 



A MONOGRAPH or THE TROCHILID.E, OR HUMMINGBIRDS. Dedicated, 

 with permission, to Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal of England. 

 By John Gould, F.R.S., &c. 



Part VII. With Fifteen Coloured Lithographs. Price Three Guineas. 

 Published May 1, 1854. 



Part VIII. With Fifteen Coloured Lithographs. Price Three Guineas. 

 Published October 1, 1854. 



London : published by the Author, 20, Broad-street, Golden-square. 



IN introducing to our readers' notice Mr. Gould's splendid " Monograph of 

 the Trochilida?," we think we cannot do better than quote the words with 

 which the enthusiastic Audubon commences the description accom- 

 panying his beautiful illustration of the exquisite and lovely northern hum- 

 mingbird 



"Where is the person who, seeing one of these lovely little creatures mov- 

 ing on humming winglets through the air, suspended as if by magic in it, 

 flitting from one flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are light 

 and airy, pursuing its course onwards, and yielding new delights wherever 

 it is seen where is the person, I ask you, kind reader, who, on observing 

 this glittering fragment of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and in- 

 stantly turn his mind with reverence towards the Almighty Creator the 



