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white of the under surface, and marked in front of the dorsal fin by a 

 brown crescent. Between Java and Borneo was procured another new 

 species, Delph. Malayanus, of a uniformly cinereous colour. Several 

 other species which appeared to be new, including the Delph. minimus, 

 the Delph. maciilatus, and the Delph. leucocephahis, were observed 

 sufficiently to enable the voyagers briefly to describe them, but no speci- 

 mens could be obtained, and no figures are consequently given ; but 

 representations of the whole of the others enumerated above are con- 

 tained in the Atlas of Plates. 



With the Mammalia we terminate for the present our analysis, pro- 

 posing to resume it when the text shall have proceeded so far as to enable 

 us to give in one article a sufficient view of the whole of the ornitho- 

 logical department of the work. The text now before us embraces only 

 general remarks on the ornithology of the several places at which the 

 expedition rested, and does not descend to particulars as to the new 

 species and forms which were observed. Many of these are extremely 

 interesting, as is evident from the beautiful representations of them con- 

 tained in the accompanying Atlas. 



A Systematic Catalogue of British Insects ; being an .Attempt to arrange 

 all the hitherto discovered Indigenous Insects in accordance toith their 

 natural affinities. By J. F. Stephens, F.L. and Z.S., Sfc. 8vo. 

 pp. xxxiv, 416 and 388. 



In this enumeration of the species of indigenous Insects, Mr. Stephens 

 has furnished us with a condensed view of the results of his entomological 

 labours during nearly twenty years devoted sedulously to their collection 

 and examination. At the period when his enquiries commenced the 

 most extensive lists of British insects in which all the orders were in- 

 cluded, were those contained in Berkenhout's Synopsis, in Stewart's 

 Elements of Natural History, in Mr. Donovan's expensively illustrated 

 Natural History of British Insects, and in the indications of Dr. Turton's 

 English edition of the System of Linnaeus. In the latter alone did the 

 number of species pointed out as natives of this country approach to even 

 one-fourth of that contained in the present catalogue. We had, how- 



