148 IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 
“ We must not close our notice of this volume, without 
stating that it is the result of three several visits to the 
Madeira islands—two winters and one summer having been 
spent in collecting materials. During the summer expe¬ 
dition, the author sojourned for some time in the mountains, 
taking with him his tent. He speaks with enthusiasm of 
the beauty of the mountain scenery of Madeira, and of the 
deliciousness of a tent life in these commanding positions. 
As a contrast to the delight he experienced in his scientific 
researches, he refers to the ennui of the majority of those 
who seek Funchal for the benefit of their health, in the 
absence of any occupation that would withdraw their minds 
from the maladies under which they suffer. To all such , 
Mr. Wollaston’s book will be a treasure as a guide to the 
localities where they may meet with interesting object , the 
search after which seems to have restored his own health, 
and the description of which here given will gain for him a j 
reputation as an accurate Entomologist.”— Athmceum. 
“ But the most important and valuable work I have to j 
notice, and the one which, as a work of science, will confer j 
most honour on this country, is the c Insecfa Maderensia’ j 
of Mr. Wollaston. This work is distinguished throughout I 
by persevering industry, profound knowledge, and philo- I 
sophical spirit. Nothing can exceed the industry with 
which the author has pursued his object, a fact that will be 
sufficiently evident when I state that he has described 213 
genera, and 482 species of Madeiran Coleoptera, out of 
which 41 of the genera, and 270 of the species, are now cha¬ 
racterized for the first time, and are therefore absolutely new 
to science. With regard to the solid Entomological know¬ 
ledge possessed, and in every page made manifest without 
display, there can be but one opinion, for not a single species 
or genus is mentioned unaccompanied by the evidence of a 
perfect knowledge of its antecedent history: this, I a* 11 
