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Histoire des Insectes nuisibles a la Vigne, et particuli^rement de la Pyrale, 
qui devasle les Vignobles des departements de la CAte d’Or, &c., avec I’indication des 
moyens qu'on doit employer pour la combattre. Par M. Victor Audouin, Paris, 
Fortin-Masson. 1842, large 4to, 350 pp. 23 coloured Plates. 
The publication of this splendid work at length enables ento¬ 
mologists to appreciate the vast loss which their favourite science 
has sustained in the lamented decease of M. Victor Audouin, and 
to determine his legitimate station amongst the heroes scientise.” 
This work clearly shows the manner in which the study of insects 
was converted into a science by one of its most talented professors, 
and at the same time rendered beneficial to the great mass of man¬ 
kind. Tt will also clearly prove to those who do not care to form 
collections of species, that the investigation of the habits of a single 
insect is sufficient to prove a great mine of enjoyment, and that 
entomologists may find sufficient employment for a life without 
moving far beyond the precincts of their own abodes. 
The situation which was so well filled by M. Audouin, united to 
the great interest with which he regarded everything connected 
with the habits and economy of the insect tribes, especially fitted 
him to undertake the investigation of the economy of and deter¬ 
mine the practicability of remedies against a small Lepidopterous 
insect, the Pyralis (Tortrix), Vitana Fabr., which had proved 
extremely injurious to the vines of France, thereby materially 
affecting one of the great resources of part of the kingdom. The 
result of these investigations is now given to the scientific world 
under the auspices of the French Government. And whether we 
regard the w^ork as affording a complete view of the natural history 
of the insect, in all its states, as well as that of its various enemies, 
as a minute detail of structural peculiarities, both internal and exter¬ 
nal of the insect in its different states, as a bibliographical notice of 
the insect, or a practical suggestion and application of remedies, 
this Memoir cannot be otherwise considered than as one of the 
most perfect entomological illustrations which has ever yet ap¬ 
peared. The plates are exquisitely engraved, the whole of the 
anatomical figures being from the pencil of the author himself. 
Those plates which represent the various inodes and stages of the 
attacks of the insects upon the vine, are very beautifully drawn 
and coloured. The whole work, in fact, affords a specimen of what 
an entomological treatise ought to be. 
