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represented has rendered it useful to the botanist*, 
and the student of entomology may still refer to it 
for iirformatiou on many points which he wll not 
easily find elucidated elsewhere. It has been 
already mentioned that her principal object was to 
figure the lar\'SB and pupm of lepidopterous insects, 
and these accordingly null be found to constitute by 
far the most valuable portion of the book, the 
dra^ving and engraving of these being obviously much 
more carefiilly executed than in the case of the com- 
plete insect. But in order that the nature of the work 
may be more fully imderstood, it will bo proper to 
describe a few of the more remarkable plates in 
detail ; and in doing so, we shall occasionally avail 
ourselves of the observations made on them by the 
late Rev. Lansdown Guilding, who was eminently 
qualified to form an estimate of their character, not 
only by his skill as a draughtsman and naturalist, 
but likewise by his residence for a time in a country 
similar to that whose productions they were de- 
signed to illustrate t. 
The two first plates are more remarkable for the 
plants which they exliibit than the insects, the 
former being the well known pine (Bromelia 
ananas, L.), first in a state of inflorescence, nfith 
* To commemorate ^^adam M-erian"s services in this de- 
partment, although it was with her a secondary object, Swartz 
lias named after her his genus Meriana^ which comprehends 
two species of exotic plants, belon^g to the class decandria 
and order monogynia. 
t See Lmidons Mag. of Nat. Hist, vol.vii. p. 335. 
