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the body are laid aside, and the general colouring 
• of the animal imdergoes a change." On Plate xn. 
along with a flowering branch of the plantain 
( Musa paradisiaca, L.), to whose magnificent di- 
mensions even Madam Merian’s plates cannot do 
justice, is figured a male moth of the genus Sa- 
tumia, conjectured by Mr. GuUding to be the same 
species as one drawn by himself in all its stijges, 
and sent for insertion in the costly zoological 
illustrations of Mr. Wilson of Edinburgh, and 
which he has named Attacus Wilsonii, in honour 
of that gentleman*. The xvith plate may be 
mentioned as affording an unpardonable instance of 
our fair author s carelessness, and of the readiness 
with whieh she listened to the stories of those who 
procured her subjects for her pencil. In represent- 
ing a branch of the ca.shew-nut tree C Anacardium 
occidmtede J, she has reversed the ripe finit, and 
placed it by means of an imaginary peduncle imder 
the leaves, where it never grows. The white cater- 
pillar on one of the lower leaves is a very remarkable 
creature, being entirely covered with thick tufts of 
hairs of great length. 
The xvmth plate is, in some respects, one of the 
most remarkable in the book, and has not improperly 
been described as an entomological caricature. The 
animals themselves are not inaccurately figured, 
* We are enabled to state, that Mr. Guilding's beautifiU 
drawing •will be represented on the ivth plate of the 2d vol. 
of these valuable illustrations, the publication of which will 
be resumed forthwith. 
