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A Description of such Genera and Species of Insects, 



alluded to in the "Introduction to Entomology" of Messrs. 

 Kirby and Spence, as appear not to have been before suffici- 

 ently noticed or described. By the Rev. William Kirby, A.M. 

 — Description of Cowania, a new genus of Plants ; and of a 

 new Species of Sieversia. By Mr. David Don, Libr. L.S. — 

 Description of the Buceros galeatus from Malacca. By Major- 

 General Thomas Hardwicke. 



ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WOKKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Zoological Jmirrial. 



No. V. of this useful work has just appeared, commencing the second 

 volume; together with a Fasciculusof Supplementary Plates to vol. i. The 

 Number contains the following articles : —The Rev. Mr. Kirby's Introductory- 

 Address, explanatory of the views of the Zoological Club, delivered at its 

 foundation, reprinted from the Philosophical Magazine.— Some further Re- 

 marks on the nomenclature of Orthoptera, with a detailed description of 

 the genus Scaphura ; also by Mr. Kirby. This I'.aper is illustrated by fi- 

 gures of the generic characters of Scaphura, and by a coloured figure of S. 

 Vigorsii. — Observations on the Structureof the Throat in the genus Anolh; 

 by Mr. Bell with figures: On the utility of preserving facts relative to 

 the habits of animals ; by Mr. Broderip.— Additional observations upon 

 a Fossil found in Coal Shale, and the description of a Palate found in 

 Coal, near Leeds; by Messrs. J. D. C. Sowerby and E. J. George: with 

 a figure. — Notice of the Occurrence of some rare British Birds; by Mr. 

 Yarrell. — Descriptions of some new and rare Volutes, by Mr. Broderip. In 

 the introduction to these descriptions Mr. Broderip ably vindicates from 

 some current aspersions the class of scientific collectors of subjects of 

 Natural History, of which he forms so distirguishcd a member. The only 

 Volute described by him which is absolutely new is V. ridila, a beautifuj 

 species, of whidi a coloured plate is given : it is characterized as " V. testa 

 ovato-oblonga, rufescente, maculis subtrigonis, confluentibus, croceo-rubris 

 varia; spira brevi, sutura simpligi ; apice papillari, subgranulato : anfractu 

 basali tuberculis elongatis armato, fasciisque 2, latis, interrujitis, rutilis, 

 ornato; columella 4-plicata. Habitat in Ocean. Austral.?" - Continuation of 

 Mr. Vigors's Sketches in Ornithology, of which the subjects are, a group of 

 Psi'tacifla known to the ancients, which Mr. Vigors has erected into a genus 

 called Palmmm; and a new Brazihan genus of Falcouida, to which he ap- 

 plies the name of Gampsnnt/x.— MT. Kirby on a pair of remarkable horned 

 mandibles of an Insect; with a figure.— Mr. French on Instinct, Essay III., 

 On the Specific Constitution of the Brute Mind, and its Modifications under 

 Human Influence. -Characters and Descriptions of several Brazilian Tham- 

 nophili; by .Mr. Swainson. — Descriptions of some sliells, belonging princi- 

 pally to the genus Chiton, observed on the coast of Argyleshirc in 1824; by 

 R.T. Lowe, Esq. ; with a coloured plate.— List of the British Vc.spcriil'wmda; ; 

 by Mr. Gray : from this it appears that there arc at least eleven sjiecies of 

 Bats in this country.— Dcscri()tions of some hitherto uncharactcrized Bra- 

 zilian Birds; bv Dr. Such : among these is a new genus of I.an'uukc dcnc- 

 minatcd (itiher'nctis: the species describcil, G. Cunnbighaim, is figured.-- 

 Analyses of Books, among which is Spix's Simiarum ci Vcspertilionum 

 Uraii/iemium Speciet A'oi'tr.— Zoological proceedings of Societies.— The 



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