TH 
F 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
Motarid, entitled; Memoire sur 
ie a primer en “ee 
he S. Semler also published, in the German la , 
crepe pay Wi pag eines Diarium iiber die 
oy area mes rey 3 ig 
vale Methotinea tone d- 
Animaux, was publi 
iis pode is Gow @ Species Tn 
method of Wie Gok ia sinipl ie 
onthe pie (plant-lice, or 
hlese zur Bonnetis- 
i little 
y te Brom tat Ma, the Jr 
appeared in immense swarms in 
i during the summer of 1782, 
so many trees of their foli , a8 to create 
of the total destruction to the whole ve~ 
The of this tract was to show, 
e food of these voracious ani- 
mals, id + attack. This is an additional 
ad) dnt sone Pode of ee any ele fone an ac- 
quaintance with the natural history of insects ; for the 
authior, by this publication, was enabled to dispel the 
uneasiness occasioned by these supposed “ ministers of 
See 
lation of that vast me- 
calami 
beecish ee 
Alan: the interesting waph:by Biota De Geer, Gene- 
ne Species Fasecioren, Grrankt, ‘A. J. Retzio, Lipsie, 
octavo. | 
In 1784, an work, in octavo, entitled; 
“ag a Concinnata, was pub- 
lished by J. A. B. 
Thun in this year, published his Dissertalio Sis- 
fens Insecta Svecica 
And, in the same ear, Harrer wrote on the insects 
of Germany, under the title, G. A. Harrer’s Beschrei- 
yf Can lage Weiche Her D. I. C. Scheeffer, 
&e. at . in octavo. 
In he the following works 4 
ogia Parisiensis, sive Catalogus Insecterum 
agro 0 Parisiensi repirhanse Secundum Methodum 
nena &c. edente A, F. De Fourcroy, duodeci- 
mo, in two volumes. 
Matthew Martyn’s Aurelian’s Vade Mecum, &c, was 
Ay in Exeter. The insects are whimsically ars 
69 
dye Linnean classes and orders History: 
lants on Spin Sey Sy 
of 
istoria Wetaaie © Cereidieen Sueciae ; auctore Bonsdorff. 
Gabriel Bonsdorff, &c. Upsalix ; in quarto. 
Naiursystem aller Bekanten in , Auslandischen In- 
seclen, §c. von Carl. ‘Gustaf. Jablonsky, Berlin, Fortge- 
setzt'von J. F. W. Herbst. 
Nath. Gotfr. Leske Reise Durch Sachsen i in Riicksicht Reise. 
der Naturgeschichte und Giconomie, Lei ; in quarto. 
Natural. Historische Briefe iiber Gstreich, &c. von Schrank. | 
Franz, von Paula Schrank, und Karl Erenbert Ritter, Moll. 
von Moll ; Spisborah. 
In ind 1786, Xavier Walfen published an account of the walfen. 
pies fe. Cape of Good Ho 
hichte der Schmetterlinge, Ausburg. 
Schwtelicne Einleitung in die et Leipzig, 
in octavo, 
Scopoli Delicie Flora et Faune, :c. Ticini, in folio. 
a 1787, were published the foll works : 
Dominicus Cyrillus, a ty. volt on the insects 
of N aples, entitled feng, (= eopolttane. 
A curious little on the gad-fly, was published 
in Leipsic, by J. Fi Fischer, entitled ationes de 
Oestro ovino atque bovino ‘acte. 
Fabricius printed his issa Insectorum, §c. Hafs 
nie in two octavo volumes. ne 
incentii P Specimen WE che erioris 
Calabrice, F et Mo . a 
Meidinger Nomenclator, (Versuch einer Deutschen 
Systematischen Nomenclatur aller in der letzen Ausgabe Wa 
des Linneischen Natursystems befindlichen Geschlechter 
der Thiere, Wien.) octavo. 
Kongb. Svenska Vete Academiens Handlingar, 
in octavo. This work is quoted thus, Act. Holm. 
John Adams published Essays on the Microscope, in Adams. 
quarto, at London, 
In 1789, a series of letters on the important subject Anderson.. 
of the cochineal insect, (which had been discovered at 
Madras a few years before,) from James Anderson, ad- 
dressed to Sir Joseph Banks, from Madras were pub- 
lised. Two oth other letters on this important subject ve 
been published since. 
And in the same year Swederus published a mono- 
on that a ae fark elec. us geen 
im a memoir enti fuing elt us 
land insecterna, hérande til At nash 
The work of M. B. Borkhanects, ¢ eeakta ye lepi- 
dopterous insects of E i. at Franc- 
fort, under the title Notrjtechiclte der Bosopaischen 
Schmetterlinge nach Systematischer ordnung. 
J. F. Gmelin published his edition of the Linnean 
Systema Nature. The entomological part is comprized 
Cyrillus. 
Swederuss 
Borkhau~ 
sen. 
Gmelin, 
in three and was published in The 
editor is considerably ind tothe writings of Fa- 
bricius ; and he rejects his classification, yet he 
has copied the species, ted them with the 
Linnean genera, which he ee aiiica t into families 
answering to the Nomen genera, and has, by this 
means, Vv ented and im roved the 
original work of Linné; we must allow that he 
has committed a vast number of the most inexcusable 
blunders, ly_in his quotations and references 
to plates. He has also, in many instances, described 
the same animal twice, or three times, under different 
names, We are surprised that lis errors are less:nume- 
rous, as he can be esteemed in no other light.than as 
an industrious closet compiler, 
In this year, also, was published, in Leipsic, octavo, Goeze. 
