58 Analysis of Periodical Works on Natural History. 



Insects, in which the Genera should be established and eluci- 

 dated by elaborate dissections, was certainly much to be de- 

 sired. This want seems likely, if we may judge from the first 

 Number now before us, to be well supplied by Mr. Curtis ; 

 whose accurate and beautiful Figures are accompanied by full 

 descriptions and elucidatory observations, which evince a cri- 

 tical acquaintance with their subjects. Mr. Curtis's plates also 

 contain representations of the Plants upon which the insects 

 feed, or to which they are attached, executed with the scien- 

 tific accuracy which has long distinguished his drawings for 

 the Botanical Magazine. 



It may be observed, that no one could expect to see the 

 completion of a work upon Species in the present advanced 

 state of science ; whereas a work limited to Genera may be 

 perfected in a reasonable time, and will be of more real utility. 



The following are the subjects of the five plates in the first 

 Number: 



Cicindela sylvicola. This is a beautiful species, unique as British, and has 

 only been figured on the continent by Megerle. — Veiia rivulorum has, we 

 believe, never before been figured: it is a pretty insect, and has been con- 

 sidered very rare. — Deilephila Euphorbia is a most beautiful and rare spe- 

 cies of Sphinx, and a British specimen of the caterpillar has never before 

 been figured. Euphorbia Paralias, embellishing the drawing, is a most luxu- 

 riant specimen of that local plant. — Pcltastes Pirn, a new species of a genus 

 proposed many years ago by Illiger, which Mr. Curtis has endeavoured to 

 establish by very elaborate dissections. The Ichneumonidae being ill under- 

 stood, the information contained in this article will be very useful. — Cteno- 

 phora ornata is also unique in Britain, and is very beautiful compared with 

 most of the Tipulidae of authors ; which, however, are all elegantly formed, 

 although the pain which some of them inflict makes them dreaded in warm 

 countries : but this does not apply to the genus Clenophora. The palpi are 

 described as being flexible like the trunk of an elephant, which is very un- 

 common, and has, we believe, not before been noticed. 



The Botanical Magazine. Nos. 442, 443. 



PI. 9441. Melastoma granulosa. — Oxylobium arborescens. — Cissus quinque- 

 folia, " foliis quinatis : foliolis utrinque attenuatis acuminatis serrntis pedi- 

 cellatis, ramis teretibus nodosis laevibus :" from Rio Janeiro. — Biscntella 

 hispidn. — Erodium Guaonii, " pedunculis longissimis multifloris, foliis petio- 

 latis cordato-ovatis inciso-lobatis crenatis, utrinque villosis, caule ascen- 

 dente hirto :" sent to Professor Tenore, from Avellino in Sicily, by his pu- 

 pil Gussone, who is engaged upon a new Flora Sicula. — Ipomcea speciosa, 

 Convolvulus speciosus IVi/ld. 



PI. 2447. Protea grandiflora, a latifolia. — Amethystea carrulea. — Phlo- 

 mis Herba venti, of which it is strange that there should have been no figure 

 but the wood-cut of Lobel. — Ononis hispanica. — Coreopsis lanceolata. — Oci- 

 mum canum " stamineum ; foliis oblongo-ellipticis serratis canis longe pe- 

 tiolatis, spteis verticillatis, verticillis subsexfloris, staminibus corolla bis lon- 

 gioribus." — Ionidium Ipecacuanha, /3. ( Viola Linn.) — Desmatithus virgatus. 



The Bo'anical Register. Nos. 105, 106. 

 Tab. 748. Erinus Lychnidea, — E. capensis Linn., distinguished by Mr. 

 Lindlev from africamw by the pubescent tube of its corolla. — Tillandsia 



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