INSECTA. . 689 



Sect. 1. Succincti. Chrysalis attached by the tail and girt round the body, divided into six tribes— Papilio- 



nides, Pierides, Eumenides, Lycrenides, Eryeinides, and Peridromides. 

 Sect. 2. Suspensi. Chrysalis only suspended by the tail, divided into eight tribes— Danaides, Heliconides 



Nymphalides, Brassolides, Morphides, Satyrides, Biblides, and Libythides. 

 Sect. 3. Involuti. Chrysalis enclosed in a Cocoon, consisting of only one tribe, Hesperides. 

 The Heterocera are divided in the latter work into the following tribes — Sesiariaa, Sphingides, Zygsenides, 

 Lithosides, Chelonides, Lij^arides, Bombycini, Saturnides, Endromides, Zeuzerides, Psychides, Cocliopodes 

 Drepanulides, Notodontides, Noctua;, divided into Noctuo-Bombycini. Bombycoides, Amphipyrides, Noctuides 

 Hadenides, Leucanides, Caradrinides, Orthosiiies, Xylinides, Calpides, Plusides, Ileleothides, Acontides 

 Catocalides, and Noctuo-phalasnides. Geometrse (not divided into tribes). The Micro-Lepidoptera are not con- 

 tained in this work of Boisduval. 



Other general works upon the order are — 



Freyer's Neue Beitrage zur Schmetterlingskunde, in numbers. 



Fischer Edler von Bosslerstamm's Abbildungen zur Berichtigung and Erganzung der Schmetterling- 

 skunde, in numbers. 

 Ratzeburg's Forst Insecten, Vol. II., and in the Nova Acta, Vol. SIX. 

 British Butterflies and their Transformations, one vol. 4to, and British Moths and their Transformations 



two vols. 4to, by J. O. Westwood, with plates drawn by Humphries. 

 H. Doubleday's List of British Lepidoptera, October, 1847. 

 Eversmann, in the BuUetiil of the Moscow Society, and Fauna Lepidopterologica Volgo-llralensis a 



valuable work which has almost entirely been destroyed by fire. 

 Herrich Schaflfer's Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa. 

 Duponchel Catalogue Methodique des Lepidopteres d'Europe, Paris, 1845. 

 Guenee Europa»orum Microlepidopterorum, Index Methodicus, Paris, 1845. 

 Selys Longchamps Enumeration des Insectes Lepidopteres de la Belgique. 

 A valuable memoir by M. Lefebvre, on the arrangement of the veins of the wings in this order, has been pub- 

 lished in the Annals of the French Entomological Society. A paper on the same subject has also been published 

 by Mr. E. Doubleday in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London. 



Many interesting exotic species have been described by White in Gray's Travels in New South Wales and by 

 Doubleday in Dieffenbach's Travels. Kollarhas described many species in Hugel's Travels in Cashmere and the 

 Himalayas. Others from Egypt are figured by Klug in the Symbolse Physicse. A beautiful work on the Lepidop- 

 tera of North America was commenced by Boisduval, but it extended only to the butterflies. A number of inte- 

 resting exotic species have also been figured in the volumes of Lepidoptera in Jardine's Naturalist's Library. 



A magnificent work on the genera of butterflies has been commenced by E. Doubleday, of which twenty-two 

 numbers have appeared. Itcontains a complete list of the species of each genus, with figures of one or more tvpes 

 in each. The species of P.T.piIio inhabiting the Dutch Settlements in the East, have been described by De ifaan 

 in the great national work on the Eastern possessions of Holland. 



A great number of new species, chiefly belonging to the genus Papilio, have been figured in my Arcana Ento- 

 mologica and Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. Mr. Edward Doubleday has also pubUshed descriptions of a great 

 number of new species of butterflies in the Annals of Natural History. A remarkable and extremely beautiful 

 genus from India has been first described and figured by Mr. Hope under the name of Teinopalpus, which mc;-its 

 notice, as its situation in the system is at the head of the order. 



A memoir by Herrick Schaffer, on the distribution of the Satyrida?, is also deserving of notice. 

 Some singular North American Bombycidoe have been described by E. Doubleday in the Entomologist. The 

 same author has described a number of beautiful species of Gymnautocera in the Annals of Nat. Hist. Many 

 fine species of Saturnia are figured in the Cabinet of Oriental Entomology. 



The classification of the Noctuidoe has been undertaken by Guenee in the Annals of the French Entomological 

 Society, and a list of the British species has been published by II. Doubleday in the Zoologist. The Micro 

 Lepidoptera have recently been carefully studied; and numerous papers by Zeller in the Linncea Entomologica 

 Entomologisches Zeitung, and Isis, and by Mr. St.ainton and others in the late numbers of the Zoolo"-ist are to be 

 noticed. The Pterophoridae have also been revised by Zeller in the Isis, 1841. 



THE ORDER RHIPIPTERA. (P. 614.) 



The natural history of these very singular insects has been studied by Westwood (Trans. Ent. Soc), VonSiebold 

 ( Wiegmanu's Arch.), and Newport (Trans. Linn. Soc), and the supposed larvic with the head protruded between 

 the rings of the abdomen of the bees and wasps, are now pi-oved to be the females which produce living young 

 fmm their heads. A paper by Mr. Thwaites and one by Dr. Templeton on a Brazilian species, have been pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Entomological Society, and Mr. Newman has commenced a memoir on the order 

 with a view to the determination of its situation in the system, in which he has overlooked the real nature of 

 the transformations of the male insect, and has consequently erred in the situation assigned to the order. 



THE ORDER DIPTERA. (P. 615.) 



The completion of M. Macquart's work on Exotic Diptera, and the publication of a valuable work by Zetterstedt 

 in seven volumes, 8vo, on the Diptera of Scandinavia, are especially to be mentioned, as well as the Insecta 



