THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. XVI. 



FEBRUARY, MDCCCXLII. 



Price 6d. 



Art. LXIY. — Analytical Notice of the Seventh Volume on Entomo- 

 logy, in the Naturalisfs Library, being entitled ' The Natural 

 History of Exotic Moths,' by James Duncan, M.W.S. Edin- 

 burgh : Lizars. London : Highley, Fleet St. Dublin ; Cuny 

 jun. &Co. 1841. 



This volume recommends itself by its cheapness. Besides 229 

 pages of letter-press, it contains an excellent portrait of Latreille, an 

 engraving of his tomb in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, and thirty 

 coloured plates, all the figures being carefully drawn, and brilliantly 

 — if we could venture on a criticism, too brilliantly — coloured. The 

 authors of most of our pictorial works on Entomology issue them at 

 prices which are almost prohibitory; whether this is wise I am unable 

 to say, but I cannot imagine these expensive delicacies ever reach a 

 sufficient circulation to attain the object of their projectors. It is as 

 a substitute for such works as these that the present volume and its 

 congeners are so peculiarly acceptable ; and if we peruse the letter- 

 press of each, we shall find that Mr. Duncan's volumes will not suffer 

 by the comparison. The memoir of Latreille, and the introductory 

 matter on moths generally, contain httle that would be new to the 

 readers of the Entomologist. Below is a list of the insects described 

 and figured. 



Agarista picta, Leach.* New Holland. p. 83, PI. ii. fig. 1. 



Eusemia lectrix, Linnaeus. China. p. 86. PI. ii. fig. 2. 



„ maculatrix, Duncan. Assam. p. 88. PL ii. fig. 3. 



Anterior wings intense black, with some small blue sjiots at the 

 base, and eleven white ones of various sizes on the disk : hind wings 

 orange, with a black central blotch and an inegular black border, in 

 which are two white spots. 



Eterusia tricolor, Hope. Assam. 



Erasmia pulchella, Hope. Ditto. 



Amesia sanguiflua, Drury. Ditto. 



Heleona fenestrata, Gueriu. New Holland. 



Anthomyza Tiresia, Cramer. Brazil. 



Metopsilus Tersa, Linnaeus. America. 



Sphinx Chionanthi, Abbott. N. America. 



* The authority is for the species only. 



