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There are some authors, however, not yet mentioned, 
whose names occupy a superior station in the Entomo- 
logical history of this period. The first of these is the 
laborious Panzer *, who began publishing, in 1796, 
a collection of figures and descriptions of the Insects 
of Germany. There does not exist, among all those 
we have enumerated, a more accurate or a more 
useful work. The figures are drawn and etched 
by the famous Sturm, the best entomological artist 
on the Continent; and are simply, but accurately, 
coloured; while the descriptions, although frequently 
too short, are written by the hand of a master. 
The system of Fabricius is followed ; and the work 
altogether is highly essential to every one who 
writes upon the entomology of Europe. A valuable 
pamphlet, by professor Petagni+, on the Insects of 
Lower Calabria, a fruitful field for the entomologist 
and which has hitherto been very little explored,— 
appeared in 1787; and the Jnstitutions of the same 
author contributed very much to spread a taste for 
this science in Italy, whose entomology had already 
been ably illustrated by Professor Rossit of Pisa. 
* G. W. F. Panzer. Faune Insectorum Germanice Initia; 
or, Deutschlands Insecten. In 109 fasciculi, each containing 
24 plates and their descriptions. In 12mo. Nuremb. — 
Index Entomologicus, pars prima, Eleutherata. Nuremb. 
1813. 1 vol. 12mo. 
+t V. Petagni. Specimen Insectorum ulterioris Calabriz. 
Neapoli, 1786. 4to. — Institutiones Entomologice. Nea. 
poli, 1792. 2 vols. 8vo. 
¢ P. Rossi. Fauna Etrusca; sistens Insecta que in Pro- 
vinciis Florentina et Pisana presertim collegit Petrus Rossius. 
Liburni, 1790. 2 vols. 4to. — Mantissa Insectorum Etrurie 
Pisis, 1792. 1 vol. 4to. 
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