TRANSACTIONS 



or THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY, 



I. A Diferiation on two Natural Genera hitherto confounded wider tU 

 name of Mantis. By Anthony Augujlui Henry Lichtert/leiny D, Z). 

 K M, L. S* Tranflated from the German by Thomas Toung, M, D- 

 F,R,S& L. S. 



Read April ^y 1 797, 



W H E N I firft took up Fabricius's Syftem of Entomology, I was 

 much ftruck with thefe words in the preface : — " The fcience of 

 entomology is as yet in its cradle : it is fcarcely fo far advanced as 

 botany was at the time of Casfalpinus." I was then inclined to 

 think that this gentleman, whofe excellent moral charafler I have 

 only fmce that time had an opportunity, by perfonal acquaintance, 

 t^ know and efteem, had at leaft exaggerated the truth, and done 

 injuftice to Linne and the reft of his predecelTors. But fince I have 

 had au opportunity of obferving with accuracy, and of comparing 

 with many drfcriptions and plates, a large number of infecls, 

 chiefly foreign, in the extenfive colle<5lion of Mr. Hdlthuyfen, I am 

 convinced that this great fyflematift did not, in making that afler- 

 tion, go much too far j ^r what a mafs of information has been 

 VoL.VL B added 



