INSECTA. 689 



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



nides, Pierides, Eurnenides, Lyca.'nides, Eryciuides, and Peridromides. 

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



Kymphalides, Brassolides, Morphides, Satyrides, Biblides, and Libjthides. 

 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 — Sesiarite, Sphingides, Zygacnides, 

 Lithosides, Chelonides, Liparidcs, Bombycini, Satuinides, Endromidcs, Zeuzerides, Psychides, Cocliopodes, 

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

 Hadenides, Leucanides, Caradrinides, Orthosides, Xylinides, Calpides, Plusides, Heleothides, Acontides, 

 Catocalides, and Noctuo-phaltcnides. 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 Schraetterlingskunde, In numbers. 



Fischer Edler yon Rossler&tumm's Abbildungen zur Berichtigung and Erganzung der Schmetterling- 



skunde, in numbers. 

 Ratzeburg's Eorst Insecten, Vol. IT., and in the Nova Acta, Vol. XIX. 

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



two vols. 4to, by J. 0. "Westwood, with plates drawn by Ilumijhries. 

 II. Doubleday's List of British Lapidoptera, October, 1847. 

 Eversmann, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Society, and Fauna Lepidopterologica Volgo-Uralensis, a 



valuable work which has almost entirely been destroyed by fire. 

 Herrich SchaffV-r'a Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa. 

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

 Guenee Europxorum Microlepidopterorum, Index Methodicus, Paris, 1845. 

 Selys Longehamps 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 pabUshed 

 by Mr. E. Doubleday in the Transactions of the Linnrcan 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 KoUarhas described many species in Hugel's Travels in Cashmere and the 

 Himalayas. Others from Egypt are figured by Klug in the Symbols Physics. A beautiful work on the Lepidnp- 

 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 tlie genera of butterflies has been commenced by E. Doubleday, of which twenty-two 

 numbers have appeared. It contains a complete list of the species of each genus, with figures of one or more types 

 in each. The species of Papilio inhabiting the Dutch Settlements in the East, have been described by De Ilaan 

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



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

 nt'dnii-ica and C;ibinct of Oriental Entomology. Mr. Edward Doubleday has also pubhshed descriptions of a great 

 number of new species of buttertiies 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 merits 

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



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

 Some singular North American Bombycidte 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 Noctuidx 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 Linn^a Entoniolugicii^ 

 Entomologisches Zeitung, and Isis, and by Mr. Stainton and others in the late numbers of the Zoologist are to be 

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



THE ORDER RHIPIPTERA. (P. CI4.) 



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

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

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

 from their heads. A paper by Mr. Thwaites and one by Dr. Templeton on a Brazdian 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 tlie 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 weH as the Insecta 



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