294> Analysis of Periodical Works on Natural History. 



great work should not be resumed, these volumes will bear aai|jle testimony 

 to the industry, learning, and botanical skill of the author." — Lobelia Tupa. 

 " This plant differs altogether from our L. gigantea, the Tupa of the Hor- 

 tus Kewensis." 



Curt is' s British Entomology. Nos. 15 and 16. 

 PI. 39. Cosso)uis Tarda, a new species discovered in Ireland, never be- 

 fore noticed, and greatly exceeding in size the other species found in this 

 country.— CeMus ligniperda, a fine variety of this well-known insect with 

 its larva (celebrated amongst the Romans as a great delicacy) is here repre- 

 sented.— ^n//»rfii"" Manicatum: this curious bee has been noticed by most 

 authors; and we find very amusing and interesting accounts of it from the 

 Rev. G.' White's Naturalist's Calendar, as well as from the pen of the Rev. 

 W. Kirby. — Dolichopeza si/lvico/a, a new genus of a nondescript Tipula, 

 found by the author in the New Forest. — Acilius cinercus: both sexes of 

 this fine insect, new to Britain, are given in this plate. — Eupithesia Lina- 

 riata: this pretty and rare little moth, although well known as an inhabi- 

 tant of Britain, has never before been figured in any of our own works. — 

 Hylotoma Stephensii, a new species of Tenthredo, named after its first dis- 

 coverer, who took it in Kent ; it was unknown to Klug, and Le Peletier St. 

 Fargeau is only acquainted with it by Dr. Leach's description. — Helcomyza 

 ustulata, an insect new to Britain, named from the manuscript of M. Mei- 

 gen. 



Zoological Journal. 



No. III. of this work contains An Inquiry into the natural affinities of the 

 Laniadce, by Mr. Swainson. — Sketches in Ornithology (on the FalconidcB), 

 by Mr. Vigors. — Continuation of Mr. Frencii's second Essay on Instinct. 



Continuation of Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cypraida. — Mr.Bennets 



Translation of Chabrier on the Thorax and Flight of Insects; and a descrip- 

 tion of a new species oi Bucciman, by the same naturalist. — M. E. Geoffroy 

 Saint-Hilaire on the vestiges of placental organization in Didelp/iis Virgini- 

 ana.— Mr. Gray on the Structure of Pholades, — and Descriptions of some 

 rare, interesting, or hitherto uncharacterized subjects of Zoology, by Mr. 

 Vigors ; with plates by Mr. J. D. C. Sowerby.— Reviews of Zoological Works, 

 Proceedings of Societies, &c. &c. 



Among the specie? described in the last article is a new and beauti- 

 ful Parroquet, lately brought from the island of Toohooteterooha, in the 

 Pacific Ocean, about a day's sail from Otaheite ; and thus characterized 

 by Mr. Vigors: " Psiltacula Kuhlii. P. flavo-viridis, gutture, genis, pectore, 

 abdomineque coccineis, crista occipitali, fasciaque abdominal i purpureis, 

 rostro pedibusque rubris." 



No. IV. (concluding the first volume) contains Some Remarks on the 

 nomenclature of the Gryllinn of MacLeay, with the characters of a new 

 genus in that tribe, by the Rev. Mr. Kirby.— An Account of the unex- 

 ampled devastations committed by Field-mice in the Forest of Dean, and 

 in the New Forest, in the years 1813 and 1814, by the late Lord Glcnber- 

 vie. — Remarks on the devastation occasioned by the Hylobius Abietis in 

 fir plantations, by Mr. W. S. MacLeay. — Observations on the British Ti- 

 oj^/jcte, together with descriptions of the British species oi Culex and Ano- 

 pheles, by Mr. Stephens. — Mr. Bell on a new species of Lizard. — Mr. Bur- 

 chell on Malaconotus alro-coccineus. — Mr. Swainson on sonje new birds 

 from Australasia. — Mr.Broderip on the manners of the Toucan. — Continu- 

 ation of Mr. Gray's Monograph on the Cyprceida. — M. de Ferussac and 

 Mr. G. B. Sowerby on JEtheria. — Descriptions of new subjects of Zoology, 

 by Mr. Vigors. — Description of the Rimau-Dahan of Sumatra, anew species 



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