43 
ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS. &c. 
(No. XV.) 
SUITES A' BUFFON, formant, avec les ceuvres de get auteur, un cours 
COMPEET d’histoire naturelle, 8vo, with Plates. 
Crvstaces. Par M, MUne-Edwards. Tom. 1, 1834 ; tom. 2, 1837 ; tom. 3, 
1840, (completed). 
Apteues. Par M. le Baron Walckenaer. Toms. 1 and & 2, 1837, (Genus Aranea 
Linn, completed in these two volumes.) 
Introduction a l’Entomologie. Par M. Th. Lacordaire. Tom. 1, 1834 ; 
tom. 2, 1838 (completed.) 
Hym^nopteres. Par M. le Comte Amedee Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau. 
Tom. 1, 1830, (Social Forraidse, Vespidte, and Apidte). Tom. 2, 1841, 
(Solitary Apidie, Parasitic Apidfe, and Solitary Vespidse). 
Orthopteres. Par M. Audinet Serville, 1839. 1 tom. (completed). 
Lepiuopteres. Par M. le Doct. Boisduval. Tom. 1, 1836 (Papilionides and 
Pierides only). 
Dipteues. Par M. Macqnart. Tom. 1, 1834 ; tom. 2, 1835 (completed). 
Neuropteres. Par M. Rambur. 1 tom. 1842 (completed). 
Hemipteres. Par Messrs. C, J. B. Amyot and Audinet Serville. 1 tom. 
1843 (completed). 
When will the state of science in England allow of the pub¬ 
lication of such a series of volumes, each averaging upwards of 600 
pages, as are contained in the preceding list ^ And yet several 
portions of the series still remain incomplete ; whilst of the great 
order Coleoptera, no part has yet appeared, and of the Lepi- 
doptera only a vei’y slight portion. It was surely a most excellent 
idea to unite the talents of so many excellent authors in one 
general work, whilst each was left so entirely uncontrolled, as to 
the manner in which the subject of his portion was to be worked 
out, that the series possesses all the advantages of separate trea¬ 
tises. How many excellent general works have been spoiled by 
the various contributors being tied down to some plan settled by 
an editor perhaps ignorant of the subject! Still, however, there 
are some points on which it would have been serviceable to have 
imposed uniformity, as, for instance, in tlie employment of short 
Latin characters prefixed to each species, the addition of generic 
tables at the head of each family, &c. As it is, we have the 
specific character sometimes at great length (which causes a ter¬ 
rible waste of time in ascertaining species) and this sometimes 
