Nature . THIS is a popular book on some>vhat new lines,beingentirely devoted to Orthopleru and Lepidoplera. Itlis well written, and up to date ; and has the merit of deal-ing mainly with branches of the subject which are nothackneyed. The illustrations are new and well selected,.and chiefly represent species which have not been figured. in any easily accessible work. These were all executed?for the author by her sister ; and the life-size figures are very good. It has been necessary to reduce the•dimensions of some of the insects figured ; which is aipity, for though this is sometimes neces
Nature . THIS is a popular book on some>vhat new lines,beingentirely devoted to Orthopleru and Lepidoplera. Itlis well written, and up to date ; and has the merit of deal-ing mainly with branches of the subject which are nothackneyed. The illustrations are new and well selected,.and chiefly represent species which have not been figured. in any easily accessible work. These were all executed?for the author by her sister ; and the life-size figures are very good. It has been necessary to reduce the•dimensions of some of the insects figured ; which is aipity, for though this is sometimes necessary in the case of these insects are discussed generally, limited spacenecessarily precluding many references to individualspecies. Several very curious insects are figured, in-cluding Dcroplatys Iruncata, a remarkable Mantis fromBorneo, which is represented at p. 32, and also on th^cover. When the book is held straight up, the latter^figure has been fancifully compared to a ballet dancerbut this odd resemblance is less obvious in the figure^in the text, owing to the shading. The chapters on Lepidoptera, some of which do,not now appear for the first time, commence with Symbols of Psyche, including a sketch of the story ofCupid and Isyche from Apuleius, prefatory to generalobservations on butterflies. The other chapters relatet
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