In this fertile year, J. A. E. Goeze began to publish an extensive systematic work, called Entomologische bey triige zu des Riggers Linne zwbyften Ausgabe des Natur Systems, &c. which was continued progressively in parts till 1783, in octavo.
Esper also produced in Germany the first part of his valuable work on lepidopterous insects, entitled, Die Sclancttcrling in Abbildung nach der .1V"atur mit Beschrei bungcn, accompanied by many plates, of which a second part was published in 1779. Between that time and 1786, two other parts appeared likewise, and which, altogether, form a very extensive publication.
In 1778, at Berlin, was published in quarto, by Peter Simon Pallas, Naturgeschichte Merkwiirdigen Thiere, in welcher Vornehmlich neue und unbekannte Thierarten durch kupferstriche, Beschreibungen und Erkliirungen erliiutert 'werden.
And Paul Czempinsky published, in octavo, Totius Regni .thzimalis Genera.
Also, in quarto, Nomenclatur and Beschretbung der In secten in der Graffschaft Hanau-.111linzenberg, von Joh. And. Ben. Bergstraesser.
Also, Magazin fir die Leibbaber der Entomologie He rausgegeben, von Jos. Casp. Fuesly, Zurich and Win terthur.
And, in this year, at Leipsic, in octavo, was published, Versuch einer Naturgeschichte vom Livland, entworfen von J. I,. Fischer.
Moses Harris also published his Aurelian, or Natural History of English Insects, namely, Moths and Butter flies, London, in quarto.
Lastly, J. C. Fabricii Philosophia Entomologica, &c. a work to be studied by every scientific entomologist.
In 1779, Pieter Cramer published, De vit Landsclze Voorkomende in de drie Waereld deelen Asia, Africa, en America, or extra European insects, which, with the continuation published in the year 1782, con sists of four volumes quarto, with many plates, confined entirely to lepidopterous insects.
And, in the same year, another very expensive work, in the French language, named Papillons d'Europe, peints d'ap•h Nature, which, as its title skews, is de voted entirely to the lepidopterous insects.
In 1779, was published, in octavo, Anfangs-griinde der Naturgeschichte, von Gotft. Leske.
In 1780, in Berlin, was published, in octavo, Schrif ten der Berlinischen Gesellschaft Natutforschenden Freunde.
Also, Otho Fabricii Fauna Granlandica, &c. Haf nix et Lipsioe ; a valuable little work, in one volume octavo.
In 1781, was published, in London, by James Barbut, an elementary work, The Genera Insectorum of Lin naus, exe»iplified by various Specimens of English In sects. As an illustration of the Linnean system, this work may be not uninteresting to the English reader, but its views are too limited to admit of even mere gene ral utility. Its author does not seem to have been aware of the vast improvements the science had undergone on the Continent, in the interval between the publication of the Genera Insectorum of Linne, and the time in which he wrote ; and has therefore drawn no comparisons be tween them, which, without innovation, must have placed the science in a more lucid point of view. It is to the silence of English writers in this respect, arising either from want of information, from sentiments of illiberality, from jealousy, or negligence, that we must ascribe the very low state of entomological knowledge in Britain, even to the present period.
In the same year, Franciscus Paula Schrank distin guished himself by his enumeration of the insects of Austria, called Enumcratio Insectorum Austria Adige norum, which has since been rendered into German by Fuesly.
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting, in this year, pub lished at Zurich, the first part of his catalogue of the insects of the Tyrol, Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der Tyroler Insecten ; a second part appeared in 1784. He adopts a system distinct from that of Untie. Insects by him are divided into ten classes or orders, charac terised from various parts of the body. These orders are named, Scarabab'ides, GryllOides, Cinzicdides, Pa Vespb'ides, Musedides, Can crdides, .drandides, and Oniscoides.
In this year, the Icones Insectorum prasertim Rossice, Siberiaque, peculiariunz, qua Collegit et Descriptionibus illustravit, Petrus Simon Pallas, M. D. Erlangke, ap peared in one volume quarto.