HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 473 
eessors in the progress that he has made towards ex- 
tricating the true system. Setting out from a common 
centre he holds on his unwearied course, endeavouring to 
trace every set of objects that branches from it to its ex- 
treme term. But though he studied insects analytically 
with unrivalled success, he was not always equally happy 
in his synthetical arrangement of them. I do not here 
so much speak of the result which must necessarily fol- 
low from any arrangement in a series, and which cannot 
well be avoided; but I allude particularly to his intire 
adoption of the GeofT'royan system in the Coleoplera, 
which has prevented him in many instances from seeing 
the natural distribution of his groups. 
In 1798, two years after the publication of Latreille's 
first enunciation of his system, M. Clairville, a very acute 
and learned Swiss Entomologist, drew up the following 
analytical table of insects. 
Sections. 
f], Elytxoptera 
(Coleopteru). 
2. Deratoptera 
( Neuroptera). 
rPterophora< 4. Phleboptera 
Co. Halteriptera 
{Diptera). 
Mau S tellata.< 6 - Lemdioptera 
w 1 ( Leptdoptera). 
| 7. Hemimeroptera 
|_ (Hemiptera). 
I A ptera S Haustellata . . 8. Rophoteira. 
*- " I Mandibulata. . 9. Pododunera. 
Every one will think that the change of the received 
names of the Orders, here denominated Sections, is per- 
fectly needless. The principal merit of this system is the 
division of insects, tacitly pointed out by Fabricius, into 
