In the same year, Mantissa Insectorum Iconibus illustrata, Species novas aza nondum depictas exhibens, fas. 1. auctore, Godofredo Christian° Reich, &c. No rimbergx. In octavo.
The third volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, containing some interesting ento mological papers, appeared, as follow : Observations re specting some rare British insects, by W. Lewin;—a History of three Species of Cassida, by the Rev. Wil liam Kirby ;—Observations on the Economy of Ichneu mon Manifestator, by Thomas Marsham, Esq.—Obser vations on the Insects that infested the Corn in the year 1795, by Thomas Marsham, Esq.—lastly, a most interesting and ingenious paper on the Oestrus, or Gad fly, by Bracy Clark, Esq.
In 1798, Fabricius published the supplement to his Entomologia Systernatica; which presents an outline of his system in its latest state ; and being the result of such extensive knowledge as he possessed, demands a considerable share of our attention. He, in this work, divides insects into thirteen classes, as follow : Class 1. ELEUTHERATA. Jaws naked, free, bearing palpi.
Class 2. ULONATA. Jaws covered with an obtuse ga lea or mouth•piece.
Class 3. SYNISTATA. Jaws elbowed near the base, and connected to the lower lip.
Class 4. PIEZATA. Jaws horny, compressed, and usually elongated.
Class 5. ODONATA. Jaws horny and toothed; two palpi or feelers.
Class 6. MyrosATA. Jaws horny, arched; no palpi. Class 7. UNOGATA. Jaws horny, unguiculatcd. Class 8. PoLyoNATA. Jaws many, (generally two) within the lip.
Class 9. KLEISTAGNATHA. Jaws several, without the lip.
Class 10. EXOCHNATHA. Jaws several, outside the lip, but covered by the palpi.
Class It. GLOSSATA. Mouth composed of a spiral tongue, situated between the two palpi.
Class 12. RHYNGOTA. Mouth composed of a beak, or articulated sheath.
Class 13. ANTLIATA. Mouth composed of a sucker, not jointed.
In the same year, viz. 1798, Clairville published an octavo work on the insects of Switzerland, in which he proposes to divide insects into eight orders, nearly after the system of Linne ; but he distinguishes them by different names, and denominates them sections in stead of orders. The names are, Elythroptcra, Dicty
opera, Phleboptera, Holteriptera, Lepidoptcra, Henzime roptera Rolzhopteira, and Pododunera. The work is en titled, Entomologic Helvetique, ou catalogue des Inscc tes de la Sztisse,F_Vc. avec Descrip. et Figures. Zurich.
In the fourth volume of the Linnean Transactions, we find, an Essay on the Eye-like spot in the Wings of the Locustce of Fabricitls, as indicating the male sex; by Professor Anthony Augustus Henry Lichtenstein; —Account and Figure of a minute Ichneumon ; by G. Shaw, M. D.-4mophila, a new genus of Hymenopte rous insects, including the Sphes sabulosa of Linne; by Rev. William Kirby ;—Further Observations on the Wheat Insect, in a Letter to the Rev. Samuel Good enough, by T. Marsham, Esq.—History of Tipula Tr!. tici, and ichneumon Tipuice, with some observations upon the Insects that attend Wheat; in a letter to Thomas Marsham, Esq. by the Rev. William Kirby ; —Observations on the genus Pausus, and Description of a new Species; by Adam, Afzelius, M. D.
E. Donovan this year published in London, Xatztral History of the Insects of China, which is the first work on the entomological productions of that vast empire that has appeared. The materials composing this vo lume, (which is in 4to.), and from which it was in a great manner formed, were obtained from the first and most authentic sources, including many of the species.: colleted at the time of the embassy of Lord Macart ney, with many others obtained from the cabinets of the highest celebrity, and the communications of friends. The work is illustrated by fifty copper-plates, beauti fully coloured. It has been translated into the French. and German languages on the contineLt: Fauna exhibens methodicam Dc scrifttionem Insesiorum agri Pctropolmis. auc:ore J. Ccdcrhielm, Leipsix.
And Verzczchniss der Kafcr Frussrns entdorfen von Johann Gottleib, von Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger,&c. I laIle, in 8vo.
Also Busch Webersicht, (Almanack) der fortschrifte 78 1 rI3R Mal Erfurt, in 8vo.