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REVIEWS. 
with the trifling difference that, in the present work, the two subdivisions 
of “ anterior wings with two opposite pale spots and a broad local streak,” 
and “ anterior wings with three spots,” have been united under the latter. 
The palm is accorded to Haworth for the industry and ability displayed 
in investigating the history of this genus. For, with the exception of the 
transformation of N. assimilella, given by De Geer, and repeated by 
Goeze, nothing worth naming was known of the genus, till Haworth 
described ten species (including aurella, whose imago had been described 
by Fabricius), and six of his nine new species retain at the present day 
“ the names he assigned to them.” Mr. Stainton adds—“• Haworth did 
not subdivide his Tinea into many genera, but places these in the section 
Metallicse, and at the very end of it; a position to which, after various 
changes, they have again returned.” After him, no one seems to have 
made any advance, before Zeller, in 1839, who described eight species, 
three unknown to Haworth; and, in 1848, he established the genus Nep- 
ticula, proposed by Von Heyden, enumerating thirteen species, three for 
the first time. The habits of the larva of three species are alluded to. 
Two or three great species were first established in Mr. Stainton’s Syst. 
Cat. Brit. Tin. In 1851 Mr. Westwood gave a prodigious impulse to the 
study, by calling attention to the habit of the larva of anomalella of mining 
in rose leaves, exhibiting, at the same time, bred specimens. A furor 
seized the collectors, and by the end of 1853, when vol. 3 of Ins. Brit, 
was written, twenty-nine British species (very shortly increased by two) 
were described. So much for the fruits of entomological zeal rightly 
directed, in spite of Mr. Kingsley’s foolish flourish about “ no more worlds 
to conquer,” &c. We fear he will never earn a presentation copy of this 
work; or if he has really, in propria persona , conquered all worlds ento¬ 
mological, let him write the history of his conquests, and convert many 
infidels. 
We must omit further mention of individual species, except that we 
cannot fail to do homage to one special proof of Divine love and care for 
the least of his creatures, exhibited in the case of the larva *of N. Censoriella 
and others; the more so as it has not been done by either Von Heyden, 
who first called attention to it, nor by Mr. Stainton in the present volume, 
nor in his Ins. Brit. Lep. Tin. We allude to the marvellous provision 
made for the food of such larvae as are not full grown when the leaves of 
the trees on which they feed are fallen off and withered in autumn—viz., 
that the parts of the leaf around the abode of the larva remain green and 
fresh when all the rest of the leaf is dead, until, being full grown, the larva 
requires no more sustenance. Truly, His mercy is over all His works. 
