Reviews and Extracts. 
39 
No. 89, FOR May, contains, 
0/ the Order Coleoptcra—Family Carybydoe — Dysc/Jrius Inermis. Mr. Curtis 
has had a specimen of it for some years, hut has no recollection where it was taken j 
it is of a shining bluish black colour ; and is the largest and strongest of the genus, 
being* two lines and a half long j it is accompanied with a plant, the Viscous Bart- 
sia, \Bartsia Fiacosa.) Mr. Curtis also mentions eleven more species, specimens 
of which have been taken :—the figures of some of them we hope to see in his 
future numbers. Bycoperditia Bovistce. —of the same Order. Vo.mi\y Endomyc/u- 
‘Four species of Lycoperdina,” says Mr. Curtis, “inhabit Sweden, and two 
dee. 
Order LepidoplerOy .— 
of them France, but only one has been 
discovered in Great Britain, which is the 
present figure, (7) L. Bovisia;, it re¬ 
ceives its name from the vegetable on 
which it feeds, the puft-ball, ( 8 ) {By- 
perdon Bovista of Linn,) which is repre¬ 
sented with the insect. They are found 
in these balls in abundance, from Sep¬ 
tember to June, both on com- 7 
mons and in fir plantations 
at Coombe Norwood, near 
Kimptoii, and Mr. Newman 
has remarked that they make 
their egress through the hole 
in the centre, at the top of 
the putF-ball; it is of a pi- 
ceous-chesnut colour, some¬ 
times ochreous, smooth and 
shining*, sparingly and mi¬ 
nutely punctiircHl, each puncture producing a short hair. 
Family Noetiidice, Acosmetia Ftfseula, the Marbled White-spot. The color of 
this little moth is brown, freckled with ochre 5 it liow'ever varies considerably in 
colour and strength of marking in the upper wings. It is found at Colney-hatch, 
Coombe, and Bexley woods, Chisslehurst, the New Forest, and in corn fields in 
June at Wrentham, in Suffolk. I'lie caterpillar feeds on the common bramble, 
and in the plate is accompanied by a figure of the dewberry bush, {Rubus Ccpsius) 
in fruit. Besides this, Mr. Curtis gives an account of six more species that have 
been captured in different places in this country. Order Hymenoptera. —Family 
AparaifVy Ardkophora llaiooi'thana. This insect was first described by Mr. Kirby, 
from a specimen taken by the gentleman whose naaie it bears, in Ashdown forest, 
Sussex, he believes. The specimen, which is a male, is of a black colour, thickly 
and minutely punctured, and its head and thorax clothed with bright fulvous 
hairs; the A. Relu.ut is also described, which builds its nests in banks and old 
walls, and is seen flying about sunny and sandy banks from March till the begin¬ 
ning of June. The male in its flight very much resembles Helophilus \ the 
female is bhack and very hairy. Mr. Kirby says, “early in the spring the male 
of this species may be seen attending upon his swarthy bride, fluttering round 
her, or hovering over her, while she with great coolness, collects the honey from 
flower to flower, without bestowing any attention upon him: if she departs, he 
departs, and if she returns, he returns likewise ; during the season of courtship 
his whole employment seems to be to attend upon her, but when the halcyon days 
of love are over, like many other husbands he goes about his business and leaves 
