In 1646, Holler gained considerable reputation by his work, " Muscarurn, Scarabreorum, Vermiumque variEe Figurre et Forma;, omnes ad vivum coloribus depictse,' &c. Antwerp.
In this year, Johnson published his " Historia Naturalis" in folio; but, as this work is a mere com pilation, without a single new remark, it is unworthy of farther notice.
An English translation of Mouffees work was pub.. lished in London by Topsal.
Dr Mey, minister of Middleburgh, published a La tin translation of Goedart's work, entitled, " Meta morphoses et Historia Naturalis Insectorum, 1662." In 1664, a quarto relating to insects as objects of microscopical observation, by Power, was published.
In 1665, " Hook's Micrographia" appeared, treat ing of minute insects.
C. Merret, in 1667, published in London his cele brated " Pinax return naturalium Britannicarum, continens Vegetabilia, Animalia et Fossilia, in bac Insula reperta inchoatus." As this is the earliest book treating exclusively of British insects, it is not devoid of interest. It contains a brief catalogue of such species as were known to Dr Merret, with a concise descriptive sentence, by way of name. In the first volume of the " Transactions of the Ento mological Society of London," an account of the in sects enumerated, with their systematic names, is given by Haworth.
Charlton produced his " Onomosticon Zoicon," London, 1668, 4to, which contains a systematic ar. rangement of insects after the manner of Aldrovan. due.
In 1669 was printed in Dutch; with a Latin title, at Utrecht, " Historia Insectorum Generalist' &c. by the celebrated Swammerdam. This work was printed in quarto, illustrated with thirteen copperplates. Many years elapsed before this great work, the admiration of later times, was in any manner acknowledged. It was condemned as inaccurate until the death of its learned author; but no sooner was his death an nounced, than his value was discovered, and his work was translated into the French language. • This was shortly after followed with other edi tions. Swammerdam divided insects into four groups, the characters being taken from their me tamorphosis and economy. The first undergo such as spiders, °nisei, &c. (The Crustacea, Myriapoda, Arachnolda, and Acari, of the moderns.) The second includes those which,
after leaving the egg, appear under the form of the perfect but have no in winch state eat and grow, till, having led their skin,they appear in the winged form, and are capable of propagating their kind. (The orders Orthoptera, bermaptera, Dictuoptera, Hetniptera, and some of the Neuroptera.) In the second group are compre hended those insects which appear, when hatched from the egg, under the form of a caterpillar, which, when full grown, changes into a chrysalis, where it remains until the parts are fully developed. The in sects included under this head are, the orders Cokok. tera and Aptera. The fourth group comprehends those who, having attained their pupa state, do not divest themselves of their skin, namely, the Hyme noptera and Diptera.
Wolf's " Dissertatio de Insectis," &c. was pub lished at Leipsic, during the same year. The author was Professor of Medicine at Jena.
In 1661 was published, in 12mo, " Redi Experi ments circa generationem Insectorum," in which the long maintained and ridiculous doctrine of equivocal generation is most successfully overthrown.
Claude Perault, one of the most learned exotic Entomologists of his age, author of several very va luable papers in the " Memoirs of the French Ara. decoy," published a folio work in - Paris, entitled, " Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire Naturelle des Animaux," 1671.
In 1672, Ferrard published a work on Insects, at Naples, We have never met with it, but it is high ly spoken of.
'ranzelio, in 1678, submitted his Insects Nbvi solii cum nive delapsa" to the world.
In the same year, Mollerus published at Franck. fort, " Meditatio de Insectis quibusdam Hungaricis prodigiosis anno proxime pneterito, ex aere una cum five in agros delapsis," ornamented with wooden cuts.
Swammerdam published, in 1675, a tract on the natural history of the Ephemera horaria, entitled, " Ephemeri Vita." In the same year, an elementary tract was printed at Upsal, by G. Belerio, named, " sic) feir Erreptry." And about the same time, by Samuel Bochart, a work, entitled, " Hierozoicon, sive bipartium opus de Animalibus Sanctse Scripturse." In 1676, some additions to Claude Perault's work were published.