4'96 NOTICE OF ENTOAIOLOGICAL WORKS. 



crescent-tipped minarets of an eastern city, come too to the aid 

 of the senses, and act as counsel for reason against imagina- 

 tion. Then the humming in the air — 



" That undefined and mingled hum, 

 Voice of the forest never dumb," 



which you entomologists, I think, are not yet agreed as to the 

 cause of. No sign of animal life, but the gambols of various 

 kinds of insects disporting around me ; and, as I have amused 

 myself with observing them, and have watched brilliant flies 

 hovering over the flowers, and hardly ever alighting, seeming 

 to live on their most delicate breath, the very acme of insect 

 happiness, — and the tiny beetle climb slowly up to the top of 

 a bent, suddenly take flight on some instinct-directed errand, — 

 and listened to the wilding-bee humming his evening orisons 

 as he darted into the cup of the hare-bell, where he is soon 

 lost in forgetfulness, perhaps, even before his nature-provided 

 hammock has recovered the equilibrium his entrance dis- 

 turbed, — and as hundreds of silver-bedropped moths — but it 

 is idle to re-detail these things to you — you who are so well 

 acquainted with Nature's " shews and forms," and have so 

 often roamed through field and forest engaged in pursuit of 

 these interesting creatures. 



Ent. Let us then admire them as the creation of a Divine 

 Architect — let us enter the vestibule of that temple, to the 

 unveiled glories of whose interior, the science v/hich makes 

 us more perfectly acquainted with this wonderfully-beautiful 

 portion of Nature's works, v/ould introduce us. 



Tyro. It is there we are permitted to trace — 



*' The unambiguous footsteps of the God 

 Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, 

 Aud wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds." 



(^Exeunt.) 



Art. LXI. — Notice of Entomological Worls. 



1. Die Arachniden. Getren nach der Natur abgehildet 

 mid beschrieben von D. Carl Willi. Haln. Erster Band. 

 Viertes Heft. Mit scchs fein aiisgemalten Tafeln. Nvrn- 

 burg. 1833. — In this number are figured one species of 



