NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 149 



A CATALOGUE OF THE LEPIDOPTEROUS 



INSECTS in the Museum of the Natural History at the 

 East India House. By Thos. Horsfield, M. and Ph. D., 

 F.R.S., Keeper of the Museum, and Frederic Moore, 

 Assistant. Vol. II. London : W. H. Allen & Co., 7, 

 Leadenhall Street. 



Of the first volume of this work, which appeared at the close 

 of 1857, containing- the Diurnal Lepidoptera and the S[)hinges, 

 Dr. Herrich-Schaffer has remarked — " This work is indispensable 

 to those who are occupied with Exotic Lepidoptera or with syste- 

 matic Entomology." 



The second volume, which has now appeared, contains the Bom- 

 byces. 



"■ The BoMBYCES," we read, " form a distinct tribe, equal in rank 

 to the Papiliones and Sphinges, and are related to the latter by 

 the g'enera^^mo:, Zi/r/csna and Eusemia, and to the Noctuid^ by 

 HepialusJ' 



No group of insects is more difficult to arrange systematically 

 than the Bombyces ; in no group do we meet with so many aberrant 

 and abnormal forms. Dr. Horstield remarks — " It is manifest to all 

 Entomologists that the transformations in this tribe have, as yet, 

 been very i?nperfectly observed and recorded ; most of those of 

 African, Australian and American Lepidoptera are a desideratum to 

 science, although those of Europe have been largely illustrated by 

 Hiibner. The final subdivision of this tribe, formed on the me- 

 tamorphosis of the several species, remains for some future Ento- 

 mologist, who may undertake the examination and arrangement of 

 this tribe with the views applied by Vigors to Birds, and by De 

 Haan to Crustacea." 



THE JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, Descriptive 

 and Geographical. Parts 1 and 2. London : Taylor and 

 Francis, Red Lion Court. 



It is difficult to conceive why the supporters, of this Journal 

 should have turned their backs on the Transactions of the Entomo- 

 logical Society, where the papers which have appeared in the 

 Journal of Entomology would have been so welcome — they say it 

 " has been projected to supply the want of an Entomological 

 periodical devoted to the descriptions of new species and to the 

 geographical distribution of insects generally. It is intended to 



