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ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Curtis's British Entomology. 

 No. 4. contains the following subjects : 



PI. 15. Omaseus aterrimus of Fab., not of Marsham's Entomologia Bri- 

 tannica: this fine insect, which a few years back only existed in the cabi- 

 net of Mr. Jos. Hooker, has been met with in Norfolk by Mr. Sparshall in 

 sufficient abundance to supply all our cabinets.— PI, 16. Peronea rufieoi- 

 tami, an elegant little species of the " Button Moths," only existing in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Stone, unknown to Hubner. This new genus of Mr.Curtis's 

 is composed of 42 British species, being a group of the extensive family Tor- 

 tricid;e Leach. — PI. 17. Crtesus septentrionalis, a singular and beautiful 

 species of Tenthredinidae from Norfolk and the neighbourhood of London. 

 — PI. 18. JSmpis borealis. Dr. Turton first gave this as a British species, 

 but we only know of its having been taken in Ireland; Linnaeus (as Sir 

 James E. Smith informs us in the Lachesis Lapponica) met with it twice in 

 Lapland ; and as it is found much further south than England, there is lit- 

 tle doubt that it will make its appearance here alive. The singular fin-like 

 wings give a heavy appearance to this insect; and the proboscis of many of 

 the species, so much resembling the long bill of some of our birds, bears a 

 still stronger resemblance in living specimens, when the labrum being 

 separated from the lip discovers the tongue between them. 



The Botanical Magazine. Nos. 445, 446, 447. 



PI. 2461. Rkipsa/is salicomoides, Haworth Suppl. PI. Succ. — Malpighia 

 itteida — Crinum tubmersum, an interesting plant from Rio Janeiro, de- 

 scribed by Mr. Herbert as being " in every point of bulb, leaf, and inflore- 

 scence, intermediate between scabrum and erubescens." The writer adds, 

 " Have we in this instance discovered a native mule in the wilderness ? 

 Have we lit upon the first origin of a new species ? or, have we in this 

 bulb an original link in the creation between two plants which have been 

 placed by some writers in different genera?" — Habranlhus gracilifolius, an 

 elegant plant from Maldonado, S. A., agreeing " with no genus heretofore 

 described," and approaches in general appearance to Zcphyranthes : from 

 Amaryllis it differs " by a hollow scape, peduncles erect, germ declined, 

 and filaments of four lengths equally inserted." — Erica biiccinifolia, " flori- 

 1ms subquaternis, bracteis a calyce remotis, foliis quaternis linearilus 

 ciliatis;" the drawing and description furnished by E. Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. 

 &c. — Crinum Careyanum. " This species," says Mr. Herbert, "forms a point 

 of union between the first subdivision of the section Patentes, or Linnaean 

 Crinum. and the first subdivision of the second section which has been de- 

 tached from the genus Amaryllis, with which it does not conform." 



PI. 2467. Eulophia guineensis. — Antcnnaria triplinervis, " herbacea erecta, 

 foliis oblongo-ovatis triplinerviis subtus tomentoso-incanis, corymbis com- 

 positis laxis foliosis, squamis calycinis interioribus temiissimis radiantibus:" 

 from Nepal. The genus was separated by Mr. Brown from Gnapkalium. — 

 Lonicera punicea, " foliis cordato-ovatis concoloribus, baccis distinctis, pe- 

 dunculis axillaribus subterminalibus bifloris folio brevioribus." — Coriaria 

 tOrmentota, a rare New Zealand plant. — Cyrtanth us pallid 'u.i, " foliis lineari- 

 lanceolatis carinatis hysterantheis, corollis nutantibus ini'undibulifornmms, 

 limbo tiibuin subaequante." — Artemisia biennis, fri »ccds gathered by Dr. 

 Richardson on his journey to the Coppermine River with Capt. Franklin. 

 — Echites nutans. — Scdum sempervivoidct introduced from the south of Cau- 

 casus by Dr. Fischer. 



PL 24/."). Hippeastrum stibharbalum. It is suggested that it may 

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