Reviews and Extracts. 
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2. —British Entomology; by John Curtis, F.L.vS. published 
monthly. 
No. 90, FOR JUNiE CONTAINS, 
Order Coleoptera.—VvLvaWy Diaper idee.—Diaperis Boleti. Found in Mrvy and June 
on Boleti, growing on trees. Two other species are described. The plant which 
accompanies it, is miY/egrawa, All-seed. QvAer Coleoptera. —Fam. He- 
lophorid<B. — Hydrochus Elongatiis, Found in April and May in ponds and ditches, 
on aquatic plants, or floating. Two other species are described. The plant \sPota- 
niogeton pectinatuvi^ Fennel-leaved Pondweed. Order Lepidoptera. —Fainilj 
Papilionidee. — Pieris (r>'(etegi. Black-veined White Butterfly. Found in June, 
not very abundant. The caterpillar feeds upon the sloe, hawthorn, gooseberry, 
and many fruit trees, and does groat damage in gardens in the spring. Order Hy- 
menoptera. —Family Apidee, — Sarapodabhnaculata. Found in the Isle of Wight. 
Four other species are described. The plant is Centavrea Seabiosaj Great Knap¬ 
weed j on which the insect was caught. 
No. 91, FOR July, contains, 
Order Coleoptera. —Family Lepturidee .— Leptura Apicalts. The larvte of the 
Lepturae live in wood, and the beetles are found in trunks of trees, or upon flow¬ 
ers j the species here figured, is of a shining black colour, clothed with short 
depressed ochreous hairs, thickly and minutely punctured, having four bars of a 
bright orange colour across the back, and is accompanied with a figure of the 
Scutellaria Minor^ (Lesser Scull-Cap.) Mr. Curtis also names twenty-one species 
besides. Of the same Order.—Family Tenebrionidee. — IJloma Fagi. This group 
is so similar in economy and structnre to the Tenebrioiies (at least the British 
ones,) that Mr. Curtis thinks they might be included in one genus; he conceives 
it is probable that the U.Fagi, U. Cornuto, U.Mauritania, and the U. Levius- 
cula, have all been introduced into England with corn and flower, from foreign 
countries, as they are commonly found in or about the bakers’ shops in Loudon. 
It is accompanied with a figure of the Helleborus Feetidusy (Bear’s-Foot) Order 
Lepidoptera. —Family Tortricidcey — Orthotenia Ttirionelloy Orange and Silver 
Ribbon Moth. The caterpillars feed on the shoots of the Scotch Pine. Order 
Diptera. —Family Tipulidee. — Leptomorphus TValkeri. Of the economy of Lepto- 
inorphus Mr. Curtis is ignorant. It was taken in July, on the windows at Arno’s 
Grove, and off a hedge by a wood at Southgate, by Fi ancis Walker, Esq. after 
whom it is specifically named. The larvee inhabits Fungi-, it is accompanied with 
a specimen of Jungerrnarmia Epiphylla. 
3, —Magazine of Natural History; Edited by J. C. Loudon, 
F. L. S., (fee: published every two months. 
No. 55, FOR July, contains, 
Page337.—Article?. On the habits of the JVeasel. By Scolopax Rusticola 
of Chilwell, near Nottingham. . 
The writer mentions a statement of the Rev. G. White, in his Natural History of 
Selborne, where he says, that “Weasles prey on moles, as appears by their being 
sometimes caught in mole-traps.” To illustrate the reverend gentleman’s 
statement, he tells us, that a neighbour of his, who had seta common spring mole- 
trap in a field which he occupied, and having occasion to go to it, to stop a gap in 
the hedge, perceived that a mole was taken. He took the trap from the ground. 
