ENTOMOLOGY. 
oe yA lioi raedagetl pedal Fal i the 
Eien eres Se petied Hit eet arent 
according to the Linnean system. ‘The 
in rome cing are useless, mel ‘ies etter. 
press is "indifferent 
Fabricius. Fabricius in this year published onl 
posse rn 
notice his system. 
whit heed we shal tee 
Poy kull alee, whose taerk et: have often noticed, 
s ‘culionum Suecie ; a 
Ser wing wie te more than any 
to the 
Paty x9 Fhe Buen Beir zur Geschichte der In« 
+g iy gon vad 
began sie ssteeehe in monthly num- 
Sng entitled Fauna Insectorum Germanica Initia, oder 
Deutchland Insecten, auctore W. F. Panzer, which still 
continues to be 
Dr Smith’s ‘our on the Continent in 1786 and 1787, 
year. i ante rag capri Saat 
Paykull. 
Gegend um ‘Mains, Rheinisches Ma- 
gazin 2ur eee naturkunde, herausgegeben 
a: wary oe 
gebildeten und en Insecten und Wiirmer mit 
moglichst vollslandiger Synonymie. Erste Abtheilung. 
Nis Wockd volume of Linnean Transactions 
bp pre in which are the followi ; the 
ee ph ie Hheataheoasaaby Phalaena 
J. ; a new t of the genus 
of Linné, by W. Jones, which is so in 
as coming from excellent au , that we can- 
net refrain from layi pera OS Name’ ta secant 
his innovation: paper was, to 
out that the sh: oe ve (which forms a 
jpal character wi Linné in his distribution of the 
milies of that us, ) various’ at first view, 
th each so ly, that it is impossible 
to draw from them the line. between 
each family. Linné, he observes, was acquainted with 
about 274 species, whereas the writer of this memoir 
ie 
rch 
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a 
in various publications ; and 
examination of these, is induced to 
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“ Wings denticulated.” Linné. Jones adds, “the un- History. 
der without a connecting nerve in ‘the centre, ===" 
with a abdomitial groove ; ‘y'~ <P ame ae 
Plebei: rurales ; gs obscure.” 
Linné. shines adds, «¢ aa altoid ‘slender ; 
under wings with no connecting nerve; antennz club- 
bed ;” and these he divides into two sections, those 
with long, weak, flexible tails ; and those without tails, 
and having the wings entire. — Plebeii urbieule: « Spots 
on the wings generally transparent.” Linné. Mr Jones 
divides these into three sections, thus: 1. Thorax and 
abdomen short, thick or broad ; under wings without 
a connecting nerve ; antenna hooked at their points, 
2, Upper wings pointed at their extremities, and long 
in yah ghey to their width. 8. Upper wings less ex- 
and, together with ‘their under wings, more 
round; their margins entire —To the Linnean families, 
Mr Joes adds another, which heterms Romani, which 
are generally of a large size, without the abdominal 
groove; no nerve ; antenne generally sharp- 
ened ; and the nerves in both win extending from 
their base to their extremities nearly in straight lines. 
We cannot conclude our account of this ingenious ar- 
rangement, without observing, that Mr Jones has made 
a series of drawings for the gratification of himself 
and friends, of every species which he could obtain 
access to, in a very elegant and correct style-—In this 
volume Mr Marwich has given an account of Gmelin’s 
Musca Pumilionis, to which some: ingenious remarks 
are added by Mr Marsham. 
In this year Archives de Uhistoire des Insectes publiées Fuesly. 
en allemand, par Jean Gaspar Fuesly, traduites en Fran- 
Gots. Winterthur, i in 4to. 
Panzer also published Faunw Insectorum America Panzer. 
Borealis prodromus. Norimburge, in 4to. who also 
edited the following work : 
J. E. Voet. Icones Insectorum Coleoptratorum §c. il- 
lustravit D, G, Wolfgang, F. Panzer, &c. Erlinge, in 
quarto. 
Neuestes Magazin fiir die Liebhaber der Entomolo- Schneider. 
gic | bet ti von D. H. Schneider. Stralsund, in 
re 1793 was published at Halle, in octavo, Ento- punker. 
mologisches Bilderbuch fiir junge Insektensamler, _ von 
Johann. Heinr. August. Dunker. ; 
And David Henrici Hoppe, M.D. Enmeratio In- yoppe. 
Elangee, Elytratorum circa Erlangam Indigenarum. 
Svo. 
Lewin published i in this year, The Papilios Lewin. 
of G on peg in quarto ; if which “adh werent in 
E with v ant res, all ies of 
butterfly at that tine aierii * inhabit eheac’ islands, 
which Snctaitad to about sixty. We understand that 
the author intended to have figured all the Lepidoptera 
of Britain; but his untimely death prevented his pro- 
instead of ceeding farther than the Papiliones. 
Latreille in this year produced his Precis du Cha. Latrcille. 
raclére des Genres, in which he divides insects into two 
sections, viz. those with and those without wings, and 
these he divides into the following orders: Coleoptéres, 
Orthoptéres, Hémipléres,,.Neuropteres, Lépidopteres, Sit 
ceurs, rs, Parasites, heal ce niomostracés, 
Crustacés, and Myriapodes ; as completely al- 
tered this _ arrangement in his later works, we shall 
ovis this method farther, as it will be sufficient- 
obvious to the reader what these alterations are from 
terms employed, &c. 
A new edition of Rossi’ 8 Fauna Etrusca, &¢. was pubs Rossi. 
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