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remark that, throughout the work, science is perpetually made 

 subservient to theory, and the author rides his hobby, Quinarian- 

 ism,with an energy and eagerness that must discompose the risible 

 muscles of the most saturnine entomological physiognomy in 

 existence. In the Horce Entomologicce no competent mind can 

 fail to trace deep and original thought, close and connected 

 reasoning, fresh and vigorous expression ; but the theory, so 

 sublime in its first dazzling entirety, becomes feeble, if not 

 ridiculous, in the analytical detail of the Cetoniidce before us. 



Mr. Hope's Coleopterist's Manual'^ is a vi^ork of great utility: 

 the design is excellent, but the execution is too hurried. The 

 object of the work is to show to what modern genera the 

 Linnsean and Fabrician species of Scarahcsus are to be re- 

 ferred. In the execution of this task Mr. Hope introduces 

 several new genera, all of which appear to me clearly defined, 

 and of far more intrinsic value than the generality of recent 

 genera. I cordially recommend this little volume to every 

 student of general entomology. 



Mr. Hope's Descriptive Catalogue of the Exotic Hemiptera' 

 in his own collection, is another work of great utility, — a com- 

 plete multum in parvo : the descriptions are of course in Latin, 

 and are, for the most part, very clear and careful, yet concise. 

 I have much pleasure in recommending this little work. 



Mr. Shuckard's Fossorial Hymenoptei'a'^ is of far higher 

 scientific character than either of the preceding publications ; the 

 author has followed that excellent advice of Horace — 

 Denique sit quod vis, simplex duntaxat et muim ; 



and, in accordance with the spirit of the line, he has produced 

 a work at once simple and complete. The author possesses 

 an ardent love of, and a complete mastery over, his subject. 

 A more perfect work on entomology has seldom appeared : all 

 British entomologists must possess it. 



^ Tlie Coleopterist's Manual, containing the Lamellicorn Insects of Linnaeus 

 and Fabricius. By the Rev. F. W. Hope. Henry G. Bohn, London. 1837. 



i A Catalogue of the Hemiptera, in the Collection of Rev. F. W. Hope. 

 London, 1837. 



'' Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera. By W. E. Shuckard. 

 Richtcr and Co. London. 1837. 



