188 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 



Hope. Rev. F. "W. Hope, an English entomologist, possessor of a fine cabinet of insects. Author 

 of the Uoleopterist's Manual, 1837. Most of his original descriptions are in the family of Laraellicom 

 beetles. 



HouN. Geoi-ge H. Horn, M. D., of Philadplpliia. Author of a Revision of the Tenebrionidse of 

 America, north of Mexico, 1870, and of Synopses of the Histeridaj and Bruchidie of the U. S., 1873, and 

 other memoirs upon N. American Coleoptcra. 



Ir.LiG. I. C. G. Illiger, professor at Berlin, an eminent naturalist, second only to Linnains in the 

 felicity and elegance of his nomenclature. Though he died in middle life, his works extended to 13 

 vols., 8-vo, embracing all departments of natural history. His most extensive work is his Magazine of 

 Entomology, in 7 vols., 8-vo, 1801-1S07 



KiKB. Rev. "Wm. Kirby, rector of Barham, England, an eminent English entomologist. Author of 

 various works upon different orders of insects. His most important work was an Introduction to En- 

 tomology, in 4 vols., 8-vo., by Wm. Kirby and Wm. Spence, 1st edition in 1815. This was for many 

 years the principal elementary work upon insects in the English language. Mr. Kirby was also author 

 of that part of the Fauna Boreali-Americana which treats of insects, 1 vol., 4-to, 1837, in which many 

 N. American insects, chiefly Coleoptera, are described. 



Knoch. a. G. Knoch, a German entomologi.st. Author of the Neue Beitra>go zur Insecteukunde, 

 1 vol., 8-vo, 1801. 



Lacord. Theodore Lacordaire, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of 

 Liege, and chevalier of the Order of Leopold. A very eminent French naturalist and entomologist, 

 recently deceased. His works extend over a period of upwards of forty years, among which was an 

 Introduction to Entomology, published as a part of the Suites a Buffon, 2 vols., 8-vo, 1834-38. But the 

 crowning work of his life was the Genera des Coleopteres, in 10 vols., 8-vo, the last volume of which 

 was not completed at the time of the author's death, on the 18th of July, 1870. 



Laf. M. de LaFerte-Senecterre, a French entomologist. Author of an elaborate monograph of 

 Anthicus and allied genera, 1848. 



Lap. F. L. de Laporte, a French entomologist. Author of Etudes Entomologiques, 1835, and other 

 works ; original describer of a number of genera and species of N. A. Coleoptera. 



Lat. or Lath. Pierre Andre Latreille, professor of the museum of natural history, in Paris ; born 

 at Urives, France, in 176-2. A very eminent French naturalist, sometimes styled the prince of entomo- 

 logists. The genius of this celebrated author illuminated every department of the .science of entomo- 

 logy, embracing all the classes of articulated animals. His labors extended through a period of about 

 thirty years. The first of nis numerous publications bears the date of 1800. His three principal works 

 are : a Natural History of Crustacea and Insects, C vols., 8-vo, 1802-5 ; Genera of Crustacea and Insects, 

 4 vols., 8-vo, 1806-7 ; and the department of Crustacea, Arachnida and Insects, in Cuvier's Animal King- 

 dom, 2d edit., 1828. 



Leach. W. E. Leach, an English physician and naturalist, one of the curators of the British mu- 

 seum. Author of numerous memoirs upon all the classes of the Articulata, and editor of the Zoological 

 Miscellany, 3 vols., 8-vo, 1817. 



LeC. John L. LeCoute, M. D., of Philadelphia — the principal American authority upon North- 

 American Coleoptera. Author of a classification of the Coleoptera of North America, 1 vol. 8vo. 

 1861-1873; and of many articles upon the different families of Coleoptera, from 1844 to the present 

 time ; and original describer of a large proportion of the North American species in this order of in 

 sects. Dr. LeConte's fiither. Major John LeConte, was also a zealous entomologist, joint author with 

 Boisduval of a General History of North American Lepidoptera and their Caterpillars, of which but 

 one volume was published, in Paris, 1833 ; and author of a monograph of North American Histeridse, 

 in the Boston Journal of Natural History, 1845. 



Linn. Charles de Linne, usually written in the Latinized form of Liunaius. Professor of Natural 

 History at Upsal, in Sweden. Born in 1707, died 1778. One of the most eminent of naturalists, and 

 founder of the modem system of nomenclature, both in Natural History and Botany. His name is 

 stamped upon almost every page in the nomenclature of plants and of every department of animated 

 nature. He was the author of nineteen distinct works, the principal of which were the "Species 

 Plantarum," and the "Systema Nature." First edition 1735; 13th edit. 7 vols 8vo. 1788. 



MacL. W. S. MacLeay, an English entomologist, a learned and philosophical writer upon in- 

 sects and their classification. Author of the Hora? Entomologicse, 1 vol. 8vo. 1819, and other works. 



Mann. C. G. Mannerheim, Counsellor to the Emperor of Russia. Author of a monograph of the 

 Enconemidae, 1823, and of a New Classification of the Staphylinida', 1830, and of several memoirs in 

 the Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Natuialists of Moscow, in which species from Sitka and Cali- 

 fornia are described, 1843-46. 



Mars. S. A. de Marseul, a French Entomologist. Author of an elaborate monograph of the Histe- 

 ridse, 1853-1860 ; and of a catalogue of the Coleoptera of Europe, 1866. 



