Reviews and Extracts. 83 
2. — British Entomology ; by Johx Curtis, F. L.S. published 
monthly. 
No. 90, FOR June contains, 
Order Coleoptera. — Vam'ily Diuperidw. — Diuperis Buleti. Found in May and June 
on Boleti, growing' on trees. Two other species are described. The phtnt which 
accompanies it, is RhaUioki »iillegra>ia. All-seed. Order Coleoptera. — Fam. Ht- 
lophoridce. — Ht/drochus Elonguliis, Found in April and May in ponds and ditches, 
on aquatic plants, or floating. Two other species are described. The plant isPota- 
7)iogetun pectinatui/i, Fennel-leaved Poudwced. Order Lcpidoptcru. — Family 
Papilionidce. — Pieris crcetegi. Black-veined White Butterfly. Found in June, 
not very abundant. The caterpillar feeds upon the sloe, hawthorn, gooseberry, 
and many fruit trees, and does great damage in gardens in the spring. Order Hii- 
menuptera. — Family Apidce, — Sitrapoda bimaculuta. Found in the Isle of Wight. 
Four other species are described. The plant is Centaurea Scabiosdy Great Knap- 
weed ; on which the insect was caught. 
No. 91, FOR July, contains, 
Order Coleoptera. — Family LepturidcE. — Leptura jlpicalis. The larva; of tho 
Lepturae live in wood, and the beetles are found in trunks of trees, or upon flow- 
ers j the species here figured, is of a shining black colour, clothed with short 
depressed ochreous hairs, thickly and minutely punctured, having four bars of a 
bright orange colour across the back, and is accompanied with a figure of the 
Scutellaria Minory (Lesser Scull-Cap.) Mr. Curtis also names twenty-one species 
besides. Of the same Order, — Family Tenehrionida . — Vloma Fagi. This group 
is so similar in economy and structure to the Tenebriones (at least the British 
ones,) that Mr. Curtis thinks they might be included in one genus; he conceive* 
it is probable that the U. Fagi. U.Cornuto, U.Mauritania, and the U. Levius- 
cula, have all been introduced into England with corn and flower, from foreign 
countries, as they are commonly found in or about the bakers' shops in London. 
It is accompanied with a figure of the Helleborus Fcetidits, (Bear's- Foot) Order 
Lepidopfera. — Family TorfricidcE.) — Orthoterda Turiunella, Orange and Silver 
Ribbon Moth. The caterpillars feed on the shoots of the Scotch Pine. Order 
Diptera. — Family Tipulida. — Leptomorplms JTalkeri. Of the economy of Lepto- 
niorphus Mr. Curtis is ignorant. It was taken in July, on the windows at Arno's 
Grove, and off" a hedge by a wood at Southgate, by Fiancis Walker, Esq. after 
whom it is specifically named. The larvae inhabits Fungi: it is accompanied with 
a specimen of Jungermannia Epiphylla. 
3.— Magazine op Natural History ; Edited by J. C. Loudon, 
F. L. S., &c: published every two months. 
No. 55, FOR July, contains, 
Page337. — Article?. On the habits of the Weasel. By Scolopax Rusticola 
ofChilwell, near Nottingham. 
Thb writer mentions a statement of the Rev. G. White, in his Natural History of 
Selborne, where he says, that "Weasles prey on moles, as appears by their being 
sometimes caught in mole-traps." To illustrate the reverend gentleman'* 
statement, he tells us, that a neighbour of his, who had seta common spring mole- 
trap in a field which he occupied, and having occasion to go to it, to stop a gap in 
the hedge, perceived that a mole was taken. He took the trap from the ground, 
