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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. 
Vkrhandelingen over de Natuureyke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche 
Bezittingen, &c. Fol. 
Fauna Japonica, sive Descriptio Animalium quse in Itinere per Japoniam suscepto 
ann. 1823—1830, collegit Ph. Fr. De Siebold coojunctis studiis—W. De Haan, pro 
invertebrata elaborata. Lugd. Batav. Fol. Livr. 1—5. 
These noble works are as honourable to their distinguished 
author and royal patron as they are worthy of the national insti¬ 
tution from which they proceed, and of they subjects therein repre¬ 
sented. Well, indeed, may the Museum of Leyden have arrived 
at its present high fame, when those who contributed to its stores 
perceive in how fitting a manner their contributions to the national 
treasures are made available to the scientific world. The work 
first above mentioned has already been noticed in the 1st volume of 
the Arcana (p. 47,) wherein the first part of the entomological por¬ 
tion, comprising the genus Papilio, Avas shortly mentioned. A 
second portion has since been published devoted to the Orthopte¬ 
rous insects. In the introductory observations upon each family 
its entire generic distribution and structural peculiarities are de¬ 
tailed, so that the work cannot in this respect be considered as 
confined to the Orthoptera of the East. The text of this luTaison 
is occupied Avith the families Blattidse, Mantidse, and Phasmidae, 
a complete list of the Eastern species kno\Am to the author being 
given, together Avith the descriptions and figures of a great number 
of new ones, some of the latter being of great singularity. The 
plates are beautifully executed, and afford a splendid specimen of 
the capabilities of draAving on stone- Nothing equal to them has 
yet appeared in this country. 
The second AA'ork above mentioned is devoted to the Brachyurous 
and Macrourous Crustacea, Avhich are described and illustrated in a 
manner AAliich leaves nothing to be desired, (if we except the Avant 
of colouring in the plates). The generical and subgenerical details 
are A^ery elaborate, and all the species are represented of the 
natural size, several requiring double folio plates. 
