20 History of Entomology in the United States. 
of his papers. 1. Natural history of the slug worm, (Blenno- 
campa Cerasi.) Bost. 1799. 8vo, pp. 14, with a plate. 2. A 
history of the pine weevil, (Rhynchenus Strobi,) with a figure 
of the insect. 3. A history of the pear tree Scolytus, (\S. Pyri,) 
witha figure. 4. A history of the oak pruner, (Elaphidion puta- 
tor,) with a plate. 5. The natural history of the canker worm, 
(Phalena (anisopteryxr) vernata,) the larva of a moth, which in 
New England is injurious to the apple and elm trees.* 6. A de- 
scription of the Cossus of the locust tree, (Cossus Robinia.) 
This gentleman may have written other papers, but they are 
unknown tome. They were published in agricultural journals 
which had not a wide circulation out of New England, and diffi- 
cult, perhaps impossible, to be procured at the present time. 
The first illustrated work on American insects that ever ap- 
peared, is The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects 
of Georgia, collected from the drawings and observations of Mr. 
Joun ‘Aszor. This splendid work appeared in London in 17 97, in 
two large folios, and was edited by Sir James E. Smrru. There 
are but few copies in this country, one of which is in the libra- 
ry of Congress. It contains figures and short descriptions of one 
hundred and three of our Lepidopterous insects. Swarnson pro- 
nounces it “to be one of the most beautiful and most valuable 
illustrated publications that England or any other country can 
boast of. The plates are the last and best of Moses Harris’s per- 
formances.”” Apsor sent many other figures of the same order of 
insects to London, but they have never been published. 
Cartespy’s great work on the natural history of Carolina, Flor- 
ida, and the Bahama Isles, appeared some years before ABBot’s, 
but as a small portion of it only is devoted to entomology, it 
scarcely belongs to our department. There are but twenty four 
insects figured and described in the two immense folios. 
The next laborer in this inviting and interesting field, is the 
celebrated Say. He has acquired an undying fame by his inde- 
fatigable industry and enthusiastic devotion to this pursuit—by 
his extensive travels in our country in its prosecution—by his 
humerous writings and his extensive correspondence with foreign 
is not the canker worm of Prof. Peck. It is the larva of a beetle unknown in 
nd, ( Calmariensis,) and identical with that of Europe, whence 
imported, . : 
