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fusco maculatae : alas hyalinse : stigma subtrigona, nigra. (Alarum 

 longitude, I lin.) 



This species may be distinguished from the three preceding, 

 by its narrower wings, and more slender antennae. 



June; amongst grass beneath trees; Southgate. — (To be 

 continued.) 



Art. III. British Periodical Works on Entotnology. 



1. British Entomologij. By John Curtis, F.L.S. 



2. Illustrations of British Entomology. By I . F. Stephens, 

 F.L.S. 



3. Santouelle's Entomological Cabinet. 



Mr. Curtis commenced his beautiful work on the first 

 of January, 1824, and has, with the most rigid punctuality, 

 continued it in monthly numbers from that time to tlie 

 present. We cannot be expected minutely to criticise such 

 a mass of matter as must be contained in so extensive and 

 laboured a production, yet we trust a few general observations 

 will not be unacceptable to our readers. 



Each number contains four highly-finished and accurately- 

 coloured figures of insects, with dissections of the parts from 

 which the generic characters are taken, at the foot of the page. 

 Each of these figures is intended to illustrate a genus; and in 

 order to be able to give plates of the most rare and beautiful 

 species of each genus, and to record fresh discoveries as they 

 occur, Mr. Curtis has not followed the usual plan of adopting 

 any system of arrangement ; a plan by which an author is fre- 

 quently bound to publish sections of his subject, which have 

 never obtained sufficient attention to bring them into any thing- 

 approaching a state of perfection. There are, perhaps, disad- 

 vantages attending this plan while in progress ; but ultimately 

 the work must, by this mode of publication, be rendered 

 much more complete than it possibly could have been, had 

 the genera been figured in regular succession. The plates, 

 generally, represent one Coleopterous, one Hymenopterous, 

 one Lepidopterous, and one Dipterous or Hemipterous insect ; 

 and we may safely say, we have never seen representations 

 more elegant, or more true to nature. The dissections we 

 have, in many instances, examined and compared with the 



