" Icons Insectorum prtesertim Rossise, Siberitob que, peculiarium, qute collegit et descriptionibus illustravit, Petrus Simon Pallas, M. D. Erlangise, 1781." One volume 8vo.
Thunberg, too, published at Upsal, the first part of his "Museum Naturalium Academia Upsalensis, to which twenty other parts, and an appendix, were added before 1800.
" Beitrage zur Insektengeschichte, &c. W. Knoch, Leipzig." 8vo.
James Barbut published, in the same year, an ele mentary book, entitled, " The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus, exemplified by various specimens of Eng lish Insects," London. As an illustration of the Linnean System, this work may not be unin ling to the English reader, but his views are too limi to admit of even mere general utility. Its author does not seem to have been aware of the vast im provements the science had undergone on the Con tinent, in the interval between the publication of Linnseus's last work, and the time he wrote; and has, therefore, drawn no comparisons between which, without innovation, must have placed the science in a more lucid point of view. It is to the silence of English writers, either arising from want of information, from sentiments of illiberality, from jealousy or negligence, that we must ascribe the very low state of entomological (and indeed of every branch of zoological and zootomical) knowledge in Britain, at the present period.
Moses Harris, in 1782, published his " Exposition of English Insects, &c." illustrated by fifty-one cop perplates, in 4to, in which he has given figures of about 500 species. The descriptions are in French and English; the specific names in Latin, but many of them of a nature by no means to be tolerated, such as Apia Audeo, &c.
In the Transactions of the French Academy we find a paper by Morand, entitled, " Memoire sur les Vers de Truffes, et sur les Mouches qui en provien• nent." " Versuch eines Diarium fiber die CEconomie Mancher Insecten im Winter, von J. S. Semler." Another interesting work appeared this year, Nues Magazin fiir die Liebhaber der Entomolo gie, Herausgegeben, von J. C. Fuesly, Winder.. thur." 8vo.
In 1783 appeared " C. Lib. Bar. De Geer. Genera
et Species Insectorum e generosissimi auctoris scrip+ tis extraxit, A. J. Retzius. Lipsige, 1783." 8vo. In this work, insects are divided into fourteen groups, under the titles, Lepidoptera, Aliaguia, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Syphonata, Derrnoptera, Hemptera, Coleaptera .ffaierata, Probaseidea, &Maria, Arca saki, Atri;Itelia, and Crustacea.
In the same year, W. Curtis published an interest ing little pamphlet, " A Short History of the Brown Tail caterpillar of which had appeared in such immense swarms in the fields surrounding London, during the summer of 1782, and despoiled so many trees of their foliage, as to create apprehen sions of the total destruction of the whole 'vegetable kingdom, and to spread such an alarm throughout the whole population of that vast metropolis, that prayers were ordered to be read in all the churches to avert the supposed impending calamity. The ob. ject of this tract is to point out the absurdity of these apprehensions, and to show, that corn and grass, not being the food of these voracious animals, would es cape their attack.
In 1784, J. A. B. Bergstrasser published his ele mentary work, in octavo, entitled, " Entomologia Scolarum in usu Concinnata." Thunberg, in this year, published his " Dissertatio sistens Insects Suecica." And Herbst produced his work, entitled, " Kum Einleitung sur Kenntniss der Insecten, Berlin." Svo.
The "Journal de Rozier" (Vols. XXIV. and XXV.) contains, 1. " Memoire au; I'Histoire des Abeilles, par l'Abbe Ray." 2. " Dissertation sur la sensibilite des Insectes, priced& de quelques observations stir la Mante, par l'Abbe Poiret;" and Vols. XXVI. and XXVII., for 1786, contain, 1. " Mogen simple de dessecher les larvae pour les conserver dans les collections Entomologiques cote des Insectes qu'elles produisent, par D'Antic." 2. " Description de quelques individus monstrueux de la rediculaire des Bois, par Reynier." Entomologia Pariaiensis, sive Catalogue Insecto rum Tile in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur, secundum Methodum Geoffroeanum, edente A. F. De Four. troy." Two volumes 12mo.