4. APTZRA, including the orders of insects now named Aptera, Thasyavra, and At bra, as well as the classes Crustacea Myrivoda and Arachacida, and part of the classes Venues and Eehittodernmaa, this latter order, he by no means deviated from the received opinions of his time. In the subsequent editions of this work, the Venues and Echinoderms. to are separated, and constitute, with the true Mollie. ea, and the Entosoa, his class Verme& See year 1767, under which head, when speaking of twelfth edition, his final views will be duly no ticed.
In 1736, all the works of Swammerdam were put to press, entitled " Biblia Nature, sive Historia In. sectorum,Belgire, cum versione Latins, IL D. Gaubii, it vita auctons, per A. Boerhaeve." Tire first ve.
lume appeared in 1787, and the second in the year following.
Lesser, in 1788, published a work entitled " F. C. Lesser's Insecto-Theologia, oder Vernunft und Schriftmassiger Versuch wie ern mensch durch auf mercksame Betrachtung derer sonst wenig geachte ten, Insecten, &c. Frankfort und Leipzig." 8vo. It was translated into French in 1742.
The folio work of L'Admiral, entitled " Naaw keurige Waarneemingen van Gestaltvermisselende gekorwene Diertjes," was published in Amsterdam. It contains a series of highly finishe.I etchings, some of which have been copied by Harris, in his Aureli an. This work is confined to the i:iects of Europe, and contains figures of about fifty of the larger spe cies, principally of Lepidoptera, which are repre sented in various attitudes, with branches of the plants in which their larva feed, accompanied, in some instances, with figures of their larva and pupa. Most of the copies contain but twenty-five plates, and five pages of letter press ; but we have seen one copy containing thirty-two plates, and twenty pages of description.
In 1741, Schaeffer published his " Icones Insecto rum circa Itatisbonam Indigenorum," in three volumes quarto, the plates being coloured. The classification • of this author differs from that of Linne, and ap " Disquisitio Physics Vermium in Norvegia qui nova visit' George Edwards, in 1743, published the first vo lume of his " Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed Animals."
London, 4to. Three other volumes appeared before 1752, in which several insects are figured.
In 1744, at Stockholm, was published by De Geer, an interesting little work in octavo, entitled, " Tal otn nyttan, som Insectere ocbderas sharsha dande, tilskynda oss," pointing out the advantages of cultivating the natural history of these animals. It is, as far as we know, the oldest work on this sub ject.
In 1745, at Stockholm and Upsal, by Linnieus, small octavo volume, entitled " Olandska och Goth landska Resa fOrrattad Sr." In 1746, " Der Montalich-herausgegebenen In secten Belustigung," by Rose] of Nuremberg, a man of genius, who was by profession a miniature-paint er. The work is in quarto. Two other volumes ap peared in 1749 and 1755. To these a fourth vo lume was added by a relation (Kleemannir) after his death in 1761 ; and since that period, Kleema nahus published three other parts.
In 1747, a tract explaining the advantages arising from the study of' insects, entitled " Dissertatio de Usa Cognitionis Insectorum," was published by C. F. Menander.
John Gould, in the same year, published, in Lon. don, " An Account of British Ants." And Bazin published, in Paris, his " Abrege de l'Histoire des Insectes, pour servir de suite 'a l'histoire naturelle des Abeilles." Paris. In two volumes Adrian Gadd, too, published in quarto, " Obser vations Physico-CEconomicw, in Septentrionali prce tura territorii superioris. Satagundise collectse. sertatio Prteside C. F. Menander, Abow," an inter esting tract, explaining the advantages arising from the study of natural history.
In 1748, was published in London, by J. Dutfield, six numbers of " A Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies." And two small tracts, by T. C. Hoppe, " Antwort Schreiben auf Heim Schreibers Gera."— " Eichen Weiden und Dorrosen ;" Leipsic.