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Herbst and Jabloiisky, " The Natural History of all Known 

 Insects, Indigenous and Exotic." Berlin, 1782-1806, twelve 

 volumes, 8vo, and twelve volumes, 4to; plates. It was dis- 

 continued before its completion. The figures of some of the 

 volumes are copies, and few exotic species are seen in them not 

 before published in Cramer and Stoll. 



"A Synopsis of Coleopterous Insects, etc.," by J. E. Yoet, 

 Erlangre, 1794, 4to, has accui-ato, though coarse, engravings. 

 The descriptions and nomenclatui-e are worthless. 



A work on the "European liemiptera," I. F. Wolff, 1800, 

 4to, is excellent. In description and figures he is superior. 

 Schellenberg, a painter of Zurich, produced a work on the same 

 subject, "The Hemiptera of Switzerland," 1800, and one on 

 the " Diptera," Zurich, 1803. 



Edward Donovan, " Natural History of British Insects," illus- 

 trated with figures; London, 1792-1820, sixteen volumes, royal 

 8vo, and "General Illustrations of Entomology, etc., etc.," Lon- 

 don, 1798-1805, three volumes, 4to. These works are familiar to 

 all lovers of this branch of zoology. The figures are too highly 

 colored in many instances, and sometimes the descriptions are 

 not accurate. In the three quarto volumes, where a great many 

 new forms are shown, the matter is of great usefulness. 



Works of Uddman, Barbut, Bradley, Martyn, and Marsham, 

 and some few others, are of minor consequence as entomological 

 productions. Panzar, " Insects of G-ermany," or " Deutsclilands 

 l7isecten,'' 109 fasciculi, 24 plates, one volume, 12mo, Nurem- 

 berg, 1813. This is regarded as a very reliable work. The 

 figures are by the famous Sturm, then the best entomological 

 artist on the continent. The descriptions are most accurate and 

 satisfactory; the system of Fabricius is followed. 



Professor Petagni published a valued pamphlet on the "In- 

 sects of Lower Calabria," Naples, 1786, 4to, and another called 

 " Institutiones Entomologiccn,'" Naples, 1792, 8vo. These aided 

 in spreading a taste for the subject in Italy. Rossi, of Pisa, 

 through his " Fauna Efrusca" 1790, two volumes, 4to, and 

 " Mantissa Insectorum Etrurice,'' Pisis, 1792, one volume, 4to, 

 had ably illustrated the entomology of Italy. 



In 1798, Paykull, ^' Fauna Suecica, Insecta,'^ Upsaliae, 1798, 

 three volumes, 8vo — treated the coleopterous insects of his native 

 country. Laspeyres is another author on er.tomology of this 

 era. '' Sesice Europcece, etc.," Berolini, 1801, 4to, which is 

 well esteemed. Dillwyn, " A Descriptive Catalogue of Eecent 

 Shells, arranged according to the Linna^an System," London, 

 1817, two volumes, 8vo, is like Viller's, who tried to bring in- 

 sects under the headings of Linn^an genera. 



Naturalists, strongly imbued with the Linn^ean spirit, were 



