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the body are laid aside, and the general colouring 

 of the animal undergoes a change." On Plate xn. 

 along with a flowering branch of the plantain 

 fMusa pwradisiaca y L.), to whose magnificent di- 

 mensions even Madam Merian's plates cannot do 

 justice, is figured a male moth of the genus Sa- 

 turnia, conjectured by Mr. Guilding to be the same 

 species as one drawn by himself in all its stages, 

 and sent for insertion in the costly zoological 

 illustrations of Mr. Wilson of Edinburgh, and 

 which he has named Attacus Wilsonii, in honour 

 of that gentleman*. The xvith plate may be 

 mentioned as affording an unpardonable instance of 

 our fair author's carelessness, and of the readiness 

 with which she listened to the stories of those who 

 procured her subjects for her pencil. In represent- 

 ing a branch of the cashew-nut tree (Anacardium 

 occidentals ), she has reversed the ripe fruit, and 

 placed it by means of an imaginary peduncle under 

 the leaves, where it never grows. The white cater- 

 pillar on one of the lower leaves is a very remarkable 

 creature, being entirely covered with thick tufts of 

 hairs of great length. 



The xviuth plate is, in some respects, one of the 

 most remarkable in the book, and has not improperly 

 been described as an entomological caricature. The 

 animals themselves are not inaccurately figured, 



* We are enabled to state, that Mr. Guilding's beautiful 

 drawing will be represented on the ivth plate of the 2d vol. 

 of these valuable illustrations, the publication of which wiH 

 V*e resumed forthwith. 



