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very scarce. Notwithstanding these two voluminous 
and expensive works on the Lepidoptera of Europe, 
a third still more costly was undertaken by Hubner*, 
another German draftsman, who seems to have pub- 
lished more on this order of insects than any of his 
countrymen: A voluminous and costly work was 
commenced by Herbst and Jablonsky+, in 1782, 
with the vain attempt of figuring and describing all 
known insects. It reached to 21 octavo volumes 
of descriptions, and the plates form the same number 
of parts; but it was then discontinued. ‘The first two 
volumes are occupied by the Coleoptera ; the re- 
mainder, by the Lepidoptera. The figures of both, 
however, are chiefly copies ; and in the latter division 
few exotic species will be found, which are not con- 
tained in the volumes of Cramer and Stoll. Voet’s 
Icones {, although somewhat coarsely engraved. 
are very characteristic of the insects they represent, 
which are exclusively Coleoptera; but the descrip- 
tions, and the nomenclature, are worthy only of the 
age of Mouffet and Petever. The best work upon the 

* J. Hiibner. Der Gamlung Europaischer Schmetier- 
linge, &c. Augsburg, 1796, &c. 3 vols. 4to. — Beitrage zur 
Geschichte der Schmetterlinge, &c. Augsburg, 1786—1789. 
2 vols. 8vo. 
+ Herbst and Jablonsky. Natur System Aller, &c.; or, 
The Natural History of all the known Insects, Indigenous 
and Exotic. Berlin, 1782—1806. 12 vols. 8vo. 12 do. 
plates, Ato. 
¢ J. E. Voet. Icones Insectorum Coleopterorum Synopsis, 
Observationibus Commentarioque perpetuo illustravit D. W 
F. Panzer. Erlanger, 1794. 4to. — Catalogus Systematicus 
Coleopterorum, Figuris coloratis. 2 vols. in cases. (Ha- 
worth’s Lib.) 
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