496 Analytical Notices of Books. 



The publication of a second edition of the first number of Mr. Cur- 

 lis's work, affords evidence that it has met with the encouragement and 

 support it deserves. This is distinguished from the first edition by the 

 increased quantity of letter-press, the genera being illustrated more fully, 

 and the whole of the species contained in each of them being charac- 

 terized, their habitats and times of appearance mentioned, &c. so as to 

 form succinct Monographs, so far as the British Entomologist is concerned, 

 of the groups comprehended in it. 



Spicihgia Zootogica ; or Original Figures and short Systematic De- 

 scriptions of JVew and Unfigured Animals. By John Edward 

 Gray, F.G.S., ^x. 4to. 



Within the compass of a single sheet Mr. Gray has here given cha- 

 racters and descriptions of numerous zoological subjects, comprising 

 specimens of nearly every class of the animal kingdom ; and in the six 

 accompanying plates he has illustrated his text by upwards of seventy 

 figures. The latter are executed in a simple style, consisting, in many 

 instances, of almost a mere outline ; and are occasionally, from their 

 deficiency in strength, scarcely adequate to convey correct ideas of the 

 objects intended to be represented. Generally, however, they are de- 

 serving of praise, as sufficient, if not for ornament, at least for most 

 useful purposes in the study of the Naturalist. They represent, among 

 the Mammalia, the Cynocephalus niger, Desm., a species hitherto 

 unfigured, and here given from an individual which was recently 

 alive in the Menagerie at the Tower ; on which it should have been 

 remarked that the generic name applied to it by M. Desmarest is erro- 

 neous, as it evidently belongs to the Magots, or that division of Macacus, 

 Lacep., in which the tail is reduced to a mere tubercle : the Lagothrix 

 Humboldtii f, figured from a living specimen : the Delphini Capensis, 

 Heavisidii, and obscuriis, inhabitants of the seas in the neighbourhood 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, and regarded by the authour as altogether 

 new to science : and the cranium of Arctocephalus lobatus, which dif- 

 fers considerably in some of its measurements from that of the congene- 

 rous Phoca ursina. The whole of these are concisely described in the 



