ENTOMOLOGY. - 
Landet aren 1749—1752, Utgisver af Car. 
Linné, appeared at Stockholm. 
In 1758, in quarto, an interesting work in its day, 
entitled, Ejusdem Dissertatio. Centuria Insectorum ra- 
, an English translation of one of the 
was published in London by 
Thomas Fleoyd. . 
~ And in 1759, J.C. De Schreberi Nove Species In- 
at Halle. Z 
eit hl eiet Aetmalinen,Speiiorias,dyaise 
_ In 1760, Caroli a Linné Amenilates Academice, tom. 
Schreberi.. 
nthe same year with the above, an octavo, Det 
Trondjemske ‘orske Videnskabers Selskabs Skivter. 
7 i Hafniz, octavo. 
~ dn 1762, Histoire abrégé des Insectes aux Environs de 
Sa 
tematicas cum introductione et iconilus. The latter is 
an elementary work in the Latin and Dutch langua- 
ges. ; 
Gronovius In 1768, L. T. Gronovius published in folio, Groro- 
: a i Three fascicali only 
Scopali. Also Whaonis ntonii Scopoli Entomologia Carnioli- 
&c. Vindebonzx, in octavo. x 
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In this year, Den Danske Atlas ued Eric Pontoppidan, History. 
Kiobenhayn, in quarto. Other parts appears ~~~" 
ed in the’years 1764 and 1767, forming altogether three }00*PP'- 
volumes in quarto. 
In 1764, Dr M. Geoffroy published in two volumes Geoffroy. 
quarto, Histoire abrégée des Insectes, dans laquelle ces 
Animauz sont-rangés suivant un ordre methodique. Paris. 
Linné in this year, again appeared before the public, 
and produced his camille Ejusdem Museum Lodovica 
Ulrice Regine. Holmiz, in octavo. 
Also Fr. Miiller Fauna Insectorum Fridrichsda- Mutter. 
lina sive methodica descriptio Insectorum-agri Fridrichs- 
dalensis, &c. Hafniee et Leipsize, octavo. 
Also J. C. Scheeffer’s Abhandlungen von Insecten. 3 
Bande. Regensburg, quarto. , , 
Also the second part of Zoophylacium Gronovianum, Gronovius, 
by Laudentius Gronovius, containing de- 
scriptions of about six hundred insects, with synon 
after the Linnean system, accompanied by four illus. 
trative was printed at (panes folio 
In 1765, Seba’s Thesaurus Nature was published at 5¢ba- 
Amsterdam, in which a vast number of the extra Eu- 
Tae insects are aye in a very coarse style. : 
_ In this year J. G. Gleditsch published at Halle, in Gleditsch. 
8vo. the volume of Vermischte Physicalisch Bota- 
nish Srecnonescte Abhandlungen ; two other volumes 
in the two ing years. 
vot sep yA ng a 
‘asste Nachrichten, die Naturhistoire in 
isbenhavnske Selskabs. Skrioter,, at Kio- 
In 1766, Scheffer published at Regensburg Elemen- Schaffer. 
ie, containing 132 plates, illustrating the 
his , and an additional section with 
Saniciddes tisk aoeumee of catching insects, 
i &e. 
In this year, a second edition of Frisch’s work 
as SET , 
n 1767, Pallas published at Berlin, in 4to, the first Pallas, 
fasciculus of his Spicilegia Zoologica quibus nova infor- 
mis-et obscure animalium species Iconibus, descriptionie 
bus atque commentariis illustrantur, a very valuable work, 
Several other numbers or fasciculi were published be 
fore the year 1780, when the last made its appearance, 
And in the same year, the twelfth edition of the 
Systema Nature of Linné was produced. As this was 
the last work of that illustrious naturalist, we shall 
lay before our readers his ical arr. ent. 
e divided insects into seven orders, deducing his cha- 
racters from their wings, as follow : . 
Order J. Coreoprera, (from xoAs<, a sheath, and : 
alegiv, a wing), including those insects having crustaceous 
is or elytra, which shut together and form a longi- 
tudinal, suture down the back of the insect. _In many 
the whole body (abdomen) is covered by these elytra, 
in others partially, The coleopterous insects compre- 
hend those commonly termed beetles. 
Order II, Hemirrena, (from gery, half, and alegi, a 
wing.) Theseanimalshave their upper wings half crusta- 
ceous, and half membranaceous, or of a matter inter- 
mediate between leather and membrane. Examples, 
the bug, the locust, &c. 
Order III, Lerivorrera, (from aszis, ascale, and 
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