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by Dr. Smith ; but the design is now abandoned. 
The healthy and peaceful occupations of this meri- 
torious entomologist has led to great length of life ; 
for we had the pleasure of receiving a collection of 
insects from him only two years ago. He is pro- 
bably now above eighty."* 
This splendid work is in two large folio volumes, 
and contains one hundred and four plates, of which 
no fewer than eighty are devoted to the crepuscular 
and nocturnal Lepidoptera. In almost every in- 
stance both sexes are figured, along with the larva, 
and the plant it frequents. There are no descrip- 
tions ; and rather a paucity of details regarding the 
general history of the respective species. It deserves, 
notwithstanding, to occupy a very high place among 
the illustrated works which have advanced our 
knowledge of the tribe of insects of which we are 
now treating. 
The various works of Donovan on the insects of 
China, India, and New Holland, although chiefly 
occupied with other tribes, furnish not a few highly 
finished delineations of beautiful and interesting 
moths from these several countries. They • were 
published at intervals between the years 1799 and 
1805. 
For originality, pains-taking, and a successful 
elucidation of the subject taken in hand, few works 
surpass the small publication of J. IV. Lewin on 
the lepidopterous insects of New South Wales. It 
forms a thin quarto, with nineteen plates, engraved 
* Sivainson, Lard. Cyclop., vol. exxvi. p. 99, 
