NEW WORKS OX ENTOMOLOGY. 177 



monthly numbers of 2± pages. Svo. Illustrated with wood- 

 cuts. Nos. 1 — 3 (to be completed in 15 numbers). 



London : John Van Voorst. 



Who is there among our elder readers who has not been asked 

 probably a dozen times, " Can you recommend me any cheap, good 

 general work on Entomology? and who is there that hasn'tafter 



consideration recommended some work such as Westwood's "Text 



Book" or Newman's " Grammar," not as the really good general 

 work inquired for, but as the best they could think of. Mr. 

 Dallas's book is intended to be the really good general work 

 inquired for, and judging from what we have seen of it, it 

 seems likely to answer the end in view. It has been the writer's 

 aim to avoid dryness, and to steer clear of all intrusion of fanciful 

 theories (for theories should carefully be eschewed by all writers 

 of elementary works). It is a work which we cordially recommend 

 to all parents in want of a solid yet readable book by which their 

 children may learn something concerning all the tribes of insects 

 found in this country. 



Those who wish to learn anything about the insects which occur 

 in every part of the globe must have recourse to Westwood's " In- 

 troduction to the .Modern Classification of Insects ;" and as the 

 number of copies of that work remaining must now be much re- 

 duced, those who think they are likely to want the work will do 

 well to apply early. 



From the Entomological works recently published on the Conti- 

 nent we have unfortunately only space to notice a few. 



SYSTEMATISCHE BEARBEITUNG DER 

 SCHM ETTERLINGE VON EUROPA ; zugleich 

 als Text, Revision und Supplement zu Jakob 

 Huebner's Sammlung Europaeischer Schmetter- 

 linge. Von Dr. G. A. W. Herrich-Schaeffer. 6 

 Vols. Ato.'icith (>3l) coloured Plates, and 36 outline Plates 



(of dissections). Price 200 ThaUrs, or i,o0. Regens- 

 burg: G. J. Mainz. 



The year 1850 will long be memorable in the annals of En- 

 tomological literature, as the year in which Herrich-SchafFer's 

 gnat work on the Lepidoptera of Europe, commenced in 1843, 

 was happily brought to a conclusion. 



1857. to n 



