146 Analysis of Periodical Works on Natural History. 



ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Cartis's British Entomology. 



No. 8. contains the following subjects : 



PI. 31. Buprestis nitidida. A species new to this island, taken in the 

 New Forest from the flowers of the White-thorn. The brilliancy of the 

 insect, as well as the rarity of all the individuals composing the genus, ren- 

 ders it an interesting and valuable acquisition to our cabinets and Fauna. — 

 PI. 32. Hydrometm siagnorum. We do not recollect to have seen a good 

 figure before of this curious but common insect, the account and plate of 

 which are here rendered more valuable by a figure of the winged sex from 

 the cabinet of the British Museum, the only collection where it is to be 

 found. — PI. 33. Bupalus favillacearius (theGray Scollop Moth). A male and 

 female of this rare and elegant species are here given ; and although Moses 

 Harris had figured the female, and Donovan the male under the name of 

 Phatcena mediopunctaria (v. xiii. 4G1. 1.), as they were not aware of there 

 being sexes of the same moth, this plate, which is remarkable for delicate 

 execution, will be an acquisition to the Lepidopterist. — PI. 34. Milcsia 

 speciosa. A splendid insect from the New Forest, of a genus to which 

 more British species will very probably shortly be added, as there are se- 

 veral others described by Meiger in his work upon the European Diptera. 



TJie Botanical Magazine. No. 4-51. 



PI. 2503. Astrapcca WaUichii, described in Lindley's Collectanea. — 

 Erinus Lychnidea, to which in preference to africanus, Burman's L. vil/osa 

 is referred. — Ixorabarbata, from the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. — Pedicidaris 

 canadensis: the leaves in the figure are opposite, as also in two specimens 

 in the Banksian Herbarium, though Kalm describes them as alternate. — 

 Fuchsia decussata, raised in the Edinburgh garden from seeds sent from 

 Chili in 1822.— Arum bulbiferum, " acaule, radice tuberosa, foliis decom- 

 positis bulbiferis ; spatha cucullata spadice cylindraceo parum longiore. — 

 Bo.rb. Ftor. Ind. inedit." A magnificent Bengal species ; the leaf spreads 

 over an area of several square feet. 



TJie Botanical Register. No. 11 4-. 



Pi. 81 7- A'iranthes grandijtora, " foliis apice bilobis valde incequalibus 

 scapo radicali vaginato debili brevioribus, calcare emarginato :" a Singular 

 Orchideons plant which Mr. Lindley considers as belonging to the same 

 section of Epidendrece with Ai'ridcs, together with seven others which he 

 enumerates. To this new genus proposed by Mr. Lindley he also refers 

 two tropical species described by M Petit-Thouars. — Dcndrobium arachnitis, 

 and Angrcecum sesquipedale. " So little," he says, " has hitherto been done 

 in decribing the Orchideons plants of tropical countries, that new forms are 

 continually presenting themselves, and requiring the establishment of new 

 genera for their reception. The distinctions upon which these are to be 

 founded, however minute they may occasionally appear, are singularly per- 

 manent and decisive."— Iris nepalensis, " cristata, scapo bifloro, foliis fal- 

 catis breviore, spatha diphylla perianthio violaceo appressa unguium sepa- 

 lorum longitudine." A handsome species received from Dr. Wallich. — 

 Pceonia cretica. Mr. Lindley states that after repeated comparisons of the 

 many supposed species in a living state, only twelve, which he enumerates, 

 can be considered distinct. The present plant is var. /3 of the arietina of 

 Anderson, Linn. Trans. — Coronilhjuncea, a native of the south of France. 



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