114 yinalytical Notices of Boohs. 



To the preceding notice we may add that Mr. Curtis has recently com- 

 menced the pubhcation, in separate sheets, of " J Gxiide to an Arrange- 

 " merit of British Insects ; being a Catalogue of all the named species 

 " hitherto discovered in Great Britain and Ireland.'' Its object is to 

 furnish a compact Hst for the purpose of being carried in the pocket or 

 transmitted to correspondents, so as to ascertain at one view the insects 

 which are possessed by the student, and those which are desiderata to 

 him. It may also be cut up to form labels for cabinets ; and may be 

 made use of as a systematic Index to the British Entomology. 



Histoire Maturelle des Mammifei'es, avec des Figures originales colorizes, 

 dessinees d'apres des Animanx vivans. Par MM. Geoffroy-Saint- 

 HiLAiRE et Frederic Cuvier. Livraiton 59 me. 



In the present number, nearly the concluding one, of this splendid 

 work, the species of Mammalia illustrated are the Patas d. Bandeau 

 blanc; the Jacchus CEdipus, Geoff.; the Pedetes Capensis, 111.; the Sci- 

 urus ferrugineus, n. s.; the Ecureuil de la Calif ornie; and a Delphi- 

 nus designated as No. 4. The text referring to the latter two animals 

 does not accompany the figures ; the Jacchus and Pedetes have been long 

 Tfell known to naturalists ; and our notice is therefore limited to the Patas 

 and the new Squirrel. 



The Patas d bandeau blanc appears hitherto to have been noticed by 

 Buffon and Daubenton alone, whose account of it extends no further than 

 to point out the single difference indicated by its name as existing between 

 it and the Patas a bandeau noir, which is generally known as the Simia 

 rubra of Linnaeus. But the former animal differs from that with the 

 black frontlet, not only in this particular but also in several others of at 

 least equal importance. The redness of the fur of its upper surface is 

 less intense, and has more of an orange tinge ; this colour does not 

 extend along the outside of the anterior limbs, nor along the tibia, these 

 parts being grey like the under surface ; and each thigh is marked by a 

 whitish spot just beneath the base of the tail. 1 here are no black whis- 

 kers on the lips, and, instead of the black band crossing the forehead, a 

 line of black hairs passes obliquely from each temple to unite with the 

 corresponding line of the opposite side upon the middle of the head, at 



