In .this year likewise an interesting work, a Insec ta Muni Grecensis." was given to the world by Ni colaus Pods, containing an account of the Insects of Greece, after the Linnesin manner.
J. H. Sulzer, in the. same year produced an. troductory work to the study of Insects,. in quarto, illustrated by several plates, under the title, ".Die Kennaeichen' der Insekten nach.Anleitung, •der Rit ter; Karl Lituseua, durch 24 Kupfertifeln erlitutert, and trait dereelben natiirlichen geachichte begleitati" Zurich..
Semi, in ,1762, began Isis." Betchanaring.pet Won dent Gosh- lade Minsgaacbta sebeptelen of; Nosier . landsthafinscten;' eluchitIladicited to Dittch Le pidopterous Insects. The plates are very numerous, and admired for their peculiar neatness, being en graven in the dot manner, with very considerable delicacy and elegance.
In this year, a most valuable systematic work by Geoffroy was published in Paris, and demands the attention of every entomologist, to whom the poseeasion of it is indispensable. It is entitled, "istoire Abregee des Insectes,". and divides Insects into six classes, 1. Coleopieres ; 2. Ilemipteres ; 3. Tamp. tires ails nues ; 4. Thrapieres wiles farineuses ; 5. DipNra ; and, 6. A pNres. In the distribution of the genera, he has made much use of the number of joints composing their tarsi.
L. T. Gronovius published, in 1765, in folio,. " Zoo phylaceum." Three fascialli only appeared.
Linnaeus again appeared before the public, and produced his " Museum Ludovicae Ulricse Regime. Holmise, 1764." 8vo.
" M. T. Briinnich Entomologia, Hafnite, 1764." 8vo.
Also, J. C. Schaeffer's " Abhaudlungen von Insec.. ten. 3 Bande. Regenburg.'i 4to.
And the second part of " Zoophylacium Gronovi anum," containing descriptions of about six hundred insects, with synonyms after the Linnean system, ac companied by tour illustrative plates. Leyden. Folio.
Pallas, in 1767, published, at Berlin, in 4to, the first fasciculus of his " Spicilegia Zoologica quibus nova informis et obscurse Animalium species looni bus, Descriptionibusque atque Commentariia illus. ;" a very valuable w ork. Several other fuel,. cull ere published before i780, when the last made its apps rune.
half crustaceous, and half mesabranaceous, or of a matter intermediate between leather and menablene.
Order Ill. LEPIDOPTElia (from Aegis, a scale, and . Insects having four wings, imbricated with (13taterfilos,,Ilfolks.) .
Insects with four transparent naked wings, reticulated with nerveures. (Dragonflies, Phryganese.) ' Order V. HYMENOPTERA (from 40, a membrane, and wrier). Insects with four naked membranaceous wings. (Bas, &milks.) Order VI. DIPTERA (from tile, two, and ,arch.). Insects with two wings. (Gnats, Flies, Gadflies, 4v.) Order VIT. APPERA (from di, without, and erier.). Lice, Spiders, Miles, Centipieds, Crabs, The great perspicuity of Limuetues system of ento mology arose from its author having made choice of the most obvious marks which insects afford, for the' leading distinctions of his_ orders. In the cone struction of his genera, he has taken his characters from the parts of the head alone, especially from the form of the antenna or horns ; these parts being sub ject not only to a great variety in their appearance, but being also very prominent organs in most insects. That there are other characters, which, in the opi nion of modern entomologists, ought not to be ne'. elected, the reader must be perfectly aware ; and al though these may be too minute for the superficial observer, yet to the man of science, who wishes to study the philosophy of classification, there can rest no doubt as to the superiority of the modern views, which take into consideration every possible charac ter, external as well as internal. The simplicity of the general distribution pin Lin:mug, the ce lebrity of his name, and the princely patronage un der which he wrote, conspired, with other favourable circumstances, to render the science more universal ly cultivated, admired, and respected about his time, than it appears to have been at any former period. Much credit is undoubtedly due to this great man for his entomological labours. We must not, how ever, be so unjust as he was, and neglect to ac knowledge the merits of his predeceseors, who wrote under less favourable circumstances, but neverthe less excelled in this department of science ; and to whom Linnaeus stands in a very high degree indebted. In the works of Aristotle and Pliny, in those of Al drovandus and Swammerdam, as well as in those of our countrymen, Ray, Willoughby, Lister, and vari ous others (whose works we have noticed), we per ceive, with somevariations, the grand outline onwhich he has founded his arrangement. It was from these valuable sources that he gifted the materials, from which he has selected, with profound judgment, and the greatest success, the valuable matter, careflully and industriously separating the dross. The charac ters of his orders and genera are to be found in se veral earlier publications, as are descriptions of many of the species. But he has concentrated these scat tend rays of science, with so much skill and indus try, that we must admit, that to him the science is indebted for that fine foundation on which it now rats. His style throughout is concise and expres sive, but in many instances it is so laconic, 'that it is im • le even to guess at the raihnels described.