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were subsequently added, the last printed under the 

 care of her youngest daughter. This work has heen 

 translated both into German and French, and there 

 seems to be more than one edition of the original. 

 That now before us is printed at Amsterdam, and 

 the date, which appears only at the bottom of the 

 frontispiece, is 1717 It forms a quarto volume, 

 written in Dutch, consisting of three parts, and 

 containing one hundred and fifty plates, besides 

 ornamented frontispieces. The objects represented 

 are chiefly European lepidoptera, with their larvee, 

 generally accompanied with a figure of the plant 

 on which the latter feed. A few coleopterous and 

 dipterous species are occasionally introduced, and 

 the pupae in most cases are likewise represented 

 Although the engraving is rather coarse, and the 

 drawing often faulty, these plates, upon the whole, 

 afford not inaccurate representations of a considerable 

 number of insects, most of them in all their different 

 stages ; and must have been a useful and even an 

 elegant contribution to the entomology of the period, 

 which was sufficiently meagre both in descriptive 

 and illustrated works. The accompanying text, it 

 is true, is not of much value ; but it must be borne 

 in mind, in estimating its merit, that this branch of 

 natural history, as well as every other, was still in 

 its infancy. The ponderous volumes of Ulysses 

 Aldrovanus, the works of Gesner, Goedart, and a 

 few others, who studied Aristotle more closely than 

 they did nature, were almost the only accessible 

 sources of information on the subject ; for the more 



