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gives all Midler's species, merely quoting his descriptions 

 and copying his figures. 



Fabricius, in his ' Entomologia Systematica,' 1793, 

 changes Muller's names in one or two instances, but does 

 not extend the number of species ; but Schrank, in the 

 ' Naturforscher' for that year, describes a new one. 



Donovan, in his ' Natural History of British Insects,' 

 1803, gives an indifferent figure of a species taken when 

 in its young state, and which appears to be the DapUnia 

 vetula. He calls it Monoculus conchaceus, and makes a 

 few remarks upon its habits and manners, giving a 

 frightful picture of its ferocity and cowardice ! "By nu- 

 merous filaments which it darts forth," he says, * it 

 causes such a motion in the water as to attract unresist- 

 ingly the insects floating into its mouth. Thus it 

 exists," he concludes, " a life of rapine and destruction, 

 enjoyed at the expense of the lives of thousands ; and as 

 the objects of its ravenous disposition are defenceless, so 

 are they the sport of their conqueror ; the few moments 

 of intermission its craving appetite grants them, is occu- 

 pied equally in the spoil, first pressing them to death, and 

 then tossing them undevoured into the fluid. But should 

 a more powerful insect oppose him, he immediately con- 

 tracts his parts, and nothing more than the external 

 covering is open to his antagonist's violence, and he will 

 sooner die ignobly than oft'er the least opposition." 



Latreille, in his ' Hist. Nat. gen. et part, des Crustacea 

 et Insectes/ 1802, enumerates all Muller's species, re- 

 taining his names ; and they are given in the same manner 

 by Bosc, in his ' Hist. Nat. des Crust, edit, de Buffon, 

 par Deterville/ 1802, both authors giving a number of 

 general details with regard to the family. 



Ramdohr, in 1.805, published a detailed account of 

 the anatomy of two species, the sima (vetula) and longi- 

 spina of Miiller, in his ' Beyt. zur Naturg. einig. deuts. 

 Monoculus-arten.' Previous to his time, Schoefter, De 

 Geer, and Miiller, were the only authors who had 

 attempted any particular anatomical details, and this 



