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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-j-, 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 Institutions 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 Rossi J of Pisa. 



* G. W. F. Panzer. Faunas Insectorum Germanieae Initia ; 

 or, Deutschlands Insecten. In 109 fasciculi, each containing 

 24 plates and their descriptions. In 1 2mo. Nuremb. — 

 Index Entomologicus, pars prima, Eleutherata. Nuremb. 

 1813. 1 vol. 12mo. 



f V. Petagni. Specimen Insectorum ulterioris Calabria;. 

 Neapoli, 1786. 4to. — Institutiones Entomologica?. Ne&- 

 poli, 1792. 2 vols. 8vo. 



\ P. Rossi. Fauna Etrusca ; sistens Insecta qua? in Pro- 

 vinces Florentina et Pisana prassertim coHcgit Petrus Rossius. 

 Liburni, 1790. 2 vols. 4to. — Mantissa Insectorum Etruriaa 

 Pisis, 1792. 1 vol. 4to. 



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