146 IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



have thrown difficulties in the way of the scientific student, 

 if not insuperable, at least extremely perplexing and tanta- 

 lising. 



" The ten plates must have, at least, a passing notice ; they 

 deserve more, but we must come to an end. That illustrating 

 1 those which have any peculiarity in their posture when in 

 repose ' provoked one or two smiles as we saw the comic 

 humility of one species, with his head in the dust, side by 

 side with the pompous vanity of the one perched on his tail, 

 and, a little farther on, the abject appearance of a little beauty, 

 lying flat along, pressed down hard to the earth." — Natural 

 History Review. 



" It contains descriptions of 591 species, of which 272 

 are not given as species by any other British author . . . 

 The copious and almost crowded illustrations by the pencil 

 of our deeply lamented assistant secretary are worthy of 

 attentive study." — Address of the President of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London, January, 1855. 



INSECT A MADERENSIA; being an Account of the 

 Insects of the Islands of the Madeiran Group. By T. 

 Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. Large 4to. Pp. 634, 

 with Thirteen Coloured Plates. London : John Van Voorst. 

 Price £2: 2s. 



" Mr. Wollaston having been advised by his physicians, 

 in October, 1847, to leave England for the benefit of his 

 health, employed a seven months' residence in Funchal in 

 collecting such insects (and desultory information concerning 

 them) as came beneath his notice; but without any ulterior 

 design, than that of a mere temporary amusement, and to 

 relieve the monotony of a winter's exile in a distant land. 

 In November of the following year, however, another mi- 

 gration being recommended, Mr. Wollaston decided 'on 

 making a virtue of necessity,' and turning his second banish- 



