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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 Hiibner *, 

 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 -j- , 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 Schmetter- 

 linge, &c. Augsburg, 1796, &c. 3 vols. 4to. — Beitrage zur 

 Geschichte der Schmetterlinge, &e. Augsburg, 1786 — 1789. 

 2 vols. 8vo. 



f 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, 4to. 



\ J. E. Voet. Icones Insectorum Coleopterorum Synopsis, 

 Observation ibus Commentarioque perpetuo illustravit D. W 

 F. Panzer. Erlangae, 1794. 4to. — Catalogus Systematicus 

 Coleopterorum, Figuris coloratis. 2 vols, in cases. (Ha- 

 worth's Lib.) 



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