148 IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



" We must not close our notice of this volume, without 

 stating that it is the result of three several visits to the 

 Madeira islands — two winters and one summer having been 

 spent in collecting materials. During the summer expe- 

 dition, the author sojourned for some time in the mountains, 

 taking with him his tent. He speaks with enthusiasm of 

 the beauty of the mountain scenery of Madeira, and of the 

 deliciousness of a tent life in these commanding positions. 

 As a contrast to the delight he experienced in his scientific 

 researches, he refers to the ennui of the majority of those 

 who seek Funchal for the benefit of their health, in the 

 absence of any occupation that would withdraw their minds 

 from the maladies under which they suffer. To all such 

 Mr. Wollaston's book will be a treasure as a guide to the 

 localities where they may meet with interesting objects, the 

 search after which seems to have restored his own health, 

 and the description of which here given will gain for him a 

 reputation as an accurate Entomologist." — Athenceum. 



" But the most important and valuable work I have to 

 notice, and the one which, as a work of science, will confer 

 most honour on this country, is the ( Insecta Maderensia' 

 of Mr. Wollaston. This work is distinguished throughout 

 by persevering industry, profound knowledge, and philo- 

 sophical spirit. Nothing can exceed the industry with 

 which the author has pursued his object, a fact that will be 

 sufficiently evident when I state that he has described 213 

 genera, and 482 species of Madeiran Coleoptera, out of 

 which 41 of the genera, and 270 of the species, are now cha- 

 racterized for the first time, and are therefore absolutely new 

 to science. With regard to the solid Entomological know- 

 ledge possessed, and in every page made manifest without 

 display, there can be but one opinion, for not a single species 

 or genus is mentioned unaccompanied by the evidence of a 

 perfect knowledge of its antecedent history: this, I am 



