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and HcBtnobora palUpes ; of the remaining thirty-six species, only eleven of 

 them have been figured in any British work. — It is not only hoped that 

 these novelties will be sufficient to recommend this volume to the student, 

 but likewise render it useful to those more advanced in the science both 

 at home and abroad. The author also trusts that those who have pur- 

 chased the volume for its embellishments, or for the figures of the British 

 plants which it contains, will not have been disappointed in the selection 

 that has been made." 



The execution of the work, as far as it has hitherto proceeded, abund- 

 antly justifies the favourable opinion which its fii'st numbers led us to ex- 

 press ; and we sincerely hope that Mr.Curtis's meritorious labours as an artist 

 and naturalist will meet with the encouragement which they richly deserve. 



Vol. II. Nos. 13 & 14. 

 PI. 51. Platypus cylindrxis, a singular insect belonging to Latreille's 

 Q\2lS>% Heteromera, but which has a fifth minute joint at the base of the 

 terminal one, as Mr. W. S. MacLeay has lately proved many of the Cur- 

 cxdionideB to have, and which he has lately demonstrated before the Zoolo- 

 gical Club. — PI. 52. Onthophagus Taurus. A male of this curious insect 

 having been taken last autumn in the New Forest, a figure of it is given for 

 the first time in any British work. — PI. 53. ^geria Ichneuvioniformis Fab. : 

 Fespifor»its Haworth ; a very rare species of the natural and beautiful 

 genus JEgeria, which is rendered remarkable by the ocelli, which, as the 

 author observes, is an additional proof of analogy between this Order and 

 Trichoptera. He has also revised the genus, and settled the true names 

 and synonyms, which in this country until now were in great confusion. — 

 PI. 54. Lophyrus Pint. Both sexes of this beautiful and singular insect 

 are figured, and an interesting account of them given from the learned 

 De Geer. — PI. 55. Melasis buprestoides ; a figure of this curious and inte- 

 resting insect has never before appeared in any British work, and the only 

 dissections that we know of the "instruraenta cibaria," which are given by 

 Olivier, are \ery far from accurate. — PI. 56. Eulepia Cribnim. We know 

 of no figure of this extremely rare insect except in the work of Hubner, of 

 which probably there are not more than two complete copies in the king- 

 dom : the pectinated antennae separating it from Lithosia, and the ge- 

 neral habit from Eyprepia, the author has divided this and Bombyx gra- 

 minica from them, and established them as a new genus ; and we think that 

 dissections of such rare insects as have never been attempted before in 

 any work upon this beautiful Order, must be very interesting to the Lepi- 

 dopterist.— PI. 57. Leptocerus ochracetis, a new species of this pretty 

 genus. The dissections here again must be very valuable to the investigator 

 of nature; as there are, we believe, no dissections of this family,excepting 

 the Labrum in Savigny's Memoires sur Ics Animaux sans Vcrlchrcs. — PI. 58. 

 Crypt us pallipcs. The male of this curious insect is here given, which is now 

 figured for the first time, having been first described by Dr. Leach in the 

 Zoological Miscellany. 



Lectures on the Phcetiomena and History of Igneous Meteors 

 and Meteo7-ites. 

 E. W, Brayley junior, A.L.S., will shortly commence, at 

 the Russel Institution, Great Coram-street, a Course of Lec- 

 tures on the Phaenomena and History of Igneous Meteors and 

 Meteorites; to be illustrated by a series of transparent dia- 

 grams of Meteors, an extensive collection of Meteorites, and 

 various experiments in Chemistry and Natural Philosopliy. 



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