Art. XX. — Notice of Entomological Works. 



1. British Entomology; by John Curtis, F.L.S., S>;c. — 

 Nos. 121, 122. — PI. 482. Smerinthus ocellatus, (Lepidoptera 

 Sphingidae) ; 483. Mordella abdominalis, (Coleoptera Mor- 

 dellidae) ; 484. Baetis dispar, (Neuroptera Ephemeridae). 

 This figure is too highly coloured. PI. 485. Cordylura 

 livens, (Diptera Muscidae) ; 486. Macrocnema unimaculata, 

 (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). This is certainly not a species ; 

 every individual of M. Hyoscyami has a light mark, more 

 or less distinct, on the metaferaora. PI. 487. Cochleophasia 

 tessellea, (Lepidoptera Tineidas) ; 488. LimnepMlus elegans, 

 (Trichoptera Phryganidae). Opetia lonchopteroides, (Diptera 

 Empidae). Mr. Curtis has placed it with the Dolichopidce. 



2. Magazine of Natural History. Nos. 37, 38. — We 

 believe our good nature tints every thing couleur de rose. 

 No. 37 of this Magazine appears to us the best number but 

 one, and that one is No. 38. Mr. Loudon praises us, and we 

 praise in return, some of our readers may observe ; but we 

 have a better motive, — we praise, because praise is due. 



3. Entomologia Ediniensis ; by James Wilson, F.R.S.E., 

 and Rev. James Duncan. — This work has long been talked 

 of, and we anticipated its appeai'ance with some eagerness ; 

 it was to be " A Description and History of the Insects found 

 in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh." We opened it, and 

 lo ! instead of Edinburgh insects, we find none but the 

 commonest London ones; scarcely a dozen that we have 

 not taken in the well-besmoked cabbage gardens of Battersea ; 

 scarcely a dozen that Mr. Stephens has not already described 

 as insects of the metropolitan district. There is, indeed, 

 some interesting matter from Kirby and Spence, &c., here 

 and there interwoven; and the descriptions of genera are 

 sufficiently accurate. 



