History. 
Schrier. 
Gueze. 
Esper. 
Pallas. 
Pabri¢ius, 
Cramer, 
68 
pepe lian Sgggane at Halle, in octavo, the 
first part of a work, entitled, Joh. Schréter Abhand- 
iiber verschiedene Gegenstande der Naturge- 
schichte ; a succeeding part appeared in 1777. 
A valuable book in quarto, entitled, Systematisches 
Verseichniz der Schmetterlinge der Wienergegand, &c. 
Wien, a in this year. wns 
In 1777, Scopoli published the ic work be- 
fore alluded to, under the title, Introductio ad Histo- 
riam Naturalem. In this work (which does not relate 
exclusively to the science of entomol » he divides 
insects into five tribes, under the appellations 
of Swammerdami-lucifuga, G m » Réese- 
In this he identifies each tribe with 
the name of that author who has, in his opinion, been 
most successful in the explanation of that to which his 
name is attached, The order ifuga includes two 
1, Crustacea, 2. Pedicularia. noptera com- 
his Halterata, Aculeata, and Caudata. } 
era, the genera Sphine, Phalena, and Papilio. 
a pager greenside pe And 
‘oleoptera he divides likewise into those inhabiti 
water, and those the land. ie 
In this fertile year, J. A. E. Gieze to publish 
an extensive systematic work called £ ische bey= 
trige zu des Ritter 's Linné zwilfien Ausgabe des Natur 
Systems, &c. which was continued progressively in 
parts till 1783, in octavo. = 
_ also uced in Germany the first part of his 
valuable work on lepidopterous insects, entitled, Die 
Schmetterling in Abbildung nach der Natur mit Beschrei- 
bungen, a by many plates, of which a second 
part was published in 1779. Between that time and 
1786, two other parts appeared likewise, and which, al- 
er, form a very extensive publication. 
n 1778, at Berlin, was published in quarto, by Pe- 
ter Simon Pallas, Naturgeschichte Merkwiirdigen Thiere, 
in welcher Vornehmlich neue und unbekannte Thierar- 
ten durch kupferstriche, Beschreibungen und Erklarun- 
Sift Cropnsky ube 
And Paul Czempi ublished, in octavo, Totius 
as Animalis Coe : 
Iso, in quarto, Nomenclatur und Beschreibung der 
Insecten in der Graffichaft Hanau-Miinzenberg, von 
Joh. And. Ben. - 
oe Magazin 7" die “eat 8 der Entomologie 
eraus, , von Jos. ij » Zurich und 
Se cee 
And, in this year, at Leipsic, in octavo, was publish- 
ed, Versuch einer Naturgeschiehte vom Ladlabe. Niteoohs 
Jen von J. 1. Fischer. 
Moses Harris also published his Aurelian, or Natural 
History of English Insects, namely, Moths and Buiter« 
lies, London, in quarto. 
Lastly, J. C. Fabricii Philosophia Entomologica, &c. 
a work to be studied by every scientific entomologist. 
In 1779, Pieter Cramer published, De vit Landsche 
kapellen, Voarkomende in de drie Waereld deelen Asia, 
Africa, en America, or extra E insects, whieh, 
with the continuation published in the year 1782, con- 
sists of four volumes quarto, with many plates, con- 
fined ey to lepidopterous insects, 
_ And, in the same year, another very expensive work, 
in the French lan , named Papillons aE s 
peints d’aprées Nature, which, as its title shews, is 
voted entirely to the lepi insects. 
In 1779,. was published, in octavo, An, ‘angs-griinde: 
der Naturgeschichte, von Nath. Gotft. Leske. Leipzig, 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
Freunde. ' ven 
Also, Otho Fabricii Fauna Granlandica, &c. Haf- oro 
nie et Lipsic ; a valuable little work, in one volume Fabricius, 
octavo. 
In 1781, was published, in London, 
but, an elementary work, The Genera J 
Linneus, exemplified by various Specimens of 
Insects. As an illustration of the Linnean m, this 
work may be not uninteresting to the English reader, 
but its views are too limited to admit of even mere gene- 
ral utility. Its author does not seem to have been. aware 
of the vast improvements the science had. I 
on the Continent, in the interval between the i 
tion of the Genera Insectorum of Linné, and the time 
in which he wrote; and has therefore drawn no com- 
parisons between them, which, without innovation, 
must have placed the science in a more lucid point of 
view. Itis to the silence of ish writers in this 
respect, arising either from want of information, from 
satisimactith uf iDibenelity, ciedan: jenlouny,/at-maigeiony 
that we must ascribe the very low state of entomologi- 
cal knowledge in Britain, even to the: ) 
In the same year, Franciscus Paula 
yore i by his enumeration of the insects of 
ustria, called Enumeratio Insectorum Austrie Indi 
norum, which has since been rendered into German 
Fuesly. Je » nbs setormigd 
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharti eee censor pages 
lished, at Zurich, the first part of he re of the t¢- 
insects of the Tyrol, Verzewhniss und | ibung der 
voler Insecten ; a second part appeared in 1784. He 
Y ee a that of Linné. Insects 
y. 
are divided into ten classes or orders, charac 
terised from various parts of the body. These orders 
are named, Scarabecides, Grylloides, Cimicéides, Pa- 
pilioniiides, Libelluloides, Vespiides, Musedides,~Can» 
créides, Arandides, and Oniscordes. eel | 
In this year, the Icones Insect Colley et Deserip. 
sie, Si mid sera alee ne 
Poe nih rer oa ne roe 
giee, 3 inone volume quart © 
And Herbst published ‘Archiv der Insectengeschichte, Werbst. 
bcs: sepa von Jos, Caspar Fuesly ; Zurich und 
rthur. In ides ieiphe di mn Whe fall Secqui. 
In this 5 Ni ; Jacquin. published in 
am et Historiam sets ote ei an yd 
Also-the Genera Inseetorum of Lin , &e, by James 
Barbut ; London, , another edition. 
And Thunberg published at Upsal, oon Museum Thunberg. 
Naturalium Academie Upsalensis, §c. Pars 1 ; to which 
twenty other parts, and an appendix, were added be- 
a Alen, Beitrage wor dhschdsigerthdshte vine &e. 
so, Beitrage zur Inse ichile von August, &¢.) Knoch, 
Wilhelm Knoch ; Lipzig, octavo. ~ vi 
And J. C. Fabricii ies Insectorum, appeared in 
the same neo, 
In 1789, Moses Harris: published: his: Zxposition of 
English Insects, &c. illustrated b sone copper- 
plates, in quarto, in which he has given: of about 
500 species. The text is in French and , and 
the specific names are given in Latin, but many 
as can never be adopted ; such as, forexample, (Apis) 
Audeo, &e. } 
And in quarto, Eri¢ Pon 
paa Norges Naturlige Historia, Kioberhavn. 
In the Transactions of the Paris Academy for this Morand.. 
Det forsle Forsog Pontepper 
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