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SYNOPSIS DES CALOPTERYGINES. Par M. E. 



de Selys-Longchamps. 8vo. Pp. 73. Bruxelles: M. 

 Hayez, Iraprimeur de l'Academie Royale. 1853. 



This is a synoptical table of the species which will be described 

 in the Histoire dcs Insectes Odonates, undertaken by M. de Selys 

 Longchamps, in conjunction with that great Neuropterist Dr. Hagen. 

 In the Sub-family Calopterygines, one hundred species are here 

 enumerated, whereas only two were known to Linnaeus, and only 

 twenty-seven to Rambur in 1841. 



HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES INSECTES— SPE- 

 CIES GENERAL DES LEPIDOPTEKES. Noctue- 

 lites par M. A. Guenee. 3 vols. 8vo., with Plates. 

 Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Rue 

 Hautefeuille 12. 1852. Price (with plain Plates) 23s. 6d. 

 (Messrs. Williams and Norgate, of 14, Henrietta Street, 

 Covent Garden, London, will be happy to execute orders at 

 that price.) 



An elaborate work, and one which every French scholar, who 

 takes an interest in the Noctuae, should possess. It embraces the 

 Noctuae. not only of Europe, but of the whole world, and will thus 

 be very useful to those exploring foreign countries. The habits of 

 the larvae of the different genera and families, as detailed in the 

 " generalites" at the commencement of each group, render it ex- 

 tremely interesting to the scientific Entomologist, and very useful 

 to the energetic collector. Many of our rarities will be rendered 

 common when this work becomes more generally read ; it speaks 

 very little for the energy of Entomological book-makers in England, 

 that an abstract of this work has not already been published here. 

 Let no one mistake us : it is not a Monograph ; descriptions are 

 only given of those species which had not been previously described, 

 or which had been ill-described— consequently reference must be 

 continually made to the works of Ochsenheimer, Treitschke, Iliib- 

 ner, Duponchel, Herrich-Schaffer and Freyer ; and the work only 

 attains its maximum of utility in the hands of those who poss - 

 the works of the above authors. 



On two points the author has developed new crotchets; both 

 highly absurd— in the first place, he puts after the specific name of 

 the species, not that of the writer who gave it that name, but that 

 of the author who first described and figured the insect at all, 

 whether he gave it any name or not: thus Tryphcena pronuba, 



