131 



Sericatus, covered with a short, thick and 

 silky down, 177 



Serratae, (antennae) having each joint pro- 

 duced on one side, at the apex, so that 

 together they resemble the teeth of a 

 saw, 156; figured 156, 6 



Setaceus, the English-Latin word for se- 

 taceous 



Setiformis, (ligula) is when the central 

 lobe of a trifid ligula is very long, 161 ; 

 figured 161, u 4 



Setigerae, (antennae) when the basal joints 

 are large, and the remainder formed 



into a kind of bristle, 158 ; figured 157, 

 18 



Setosce, (antenna) when furnished through- 

 out with irregular, harsh, bristly hair, 

 157; figured 157, 12 



Sexton beetle, history of the, 53 ; its ha- 

 bits described, 54; figured, la. pu. im. 

 53 



Shape of insects, 175 



Shellac, a gelatinous substance of great 

 value in the manufacture of hats, &c,, 

 is secreted by an insect on the trunks 

 of trees in the East Indies, 86 



There are woodcuts representing the following genera in the imago 

 state : 



and about fifty other figures, most of them anatomical. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. XXV. — Analytical Notice of the 4tith Number of the ' Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History^ dated June^ 1841. London : 

 Richard and John E. Taylor. 



Art. XXXVI. — Description of a South American Wasp, tuhich collects 

 Honey. By Mr. Adam White, M.E.S. ; an Assistant in the Zoolo- 

 gical Department of the British Museum. 



Some of the American wasps construct their nests of solid paste- 

 board of considerable thickness ; of these nests that of the Vespa ni- 

 dulans of Fabricius, described in Reaumur's sixth volume, is the best 



