HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 431 



ingenious remarks of Professor Liechtenstein a render 

 probable, that he distinguishes as clean insects the Fabri- 

 cian genera Gryllm^ Locusta, Truxalis^ tmdAcheta, which 

 a person unobservant of these animals would have con- 

 founded together. This discrimination presupposes this 

 knowledge of their general characters, not only in the 

 Jewish lawgiver, but also in the people themselves to 

 whom the precept was addressed, to whom it would 

 otherwise have been de ignotis. 



Allusion is made in Holy Writ to insects of almost 

 every one of the modern Orders b . They are represented 

 as employed divinitus sometimes to annoy the enemies 

 of the Israelites, and at others to punish that people 

 themselves when they apostatized from their God. The 

 prophets frequently introduce them as symbols of ene- 

 mies that lay waste or oppress the church : as \hejly of 

 the Ethiopians or Egyptians ; the bee of the Assyrians ; 

 and the locust of the followers of Mahomet and other 

 similar destroyers c . That Solomon, amongst other ob- 

 jects to the investigation of which his divinely inspired 

 wisdom directed him, did not deem insects, those "Little 

 things upon the earth d ," unworthy of his attention, we 

 know from Scripture e ; but as his physical writings are 

 lost, we are ignorant whether he treated of their natural 

 arrangement, their economy and history, or of the in- 

 struction they afford analogically considered. Where 



a Linn. Trans, iv. 51. See Levit. xi. 20 . 



b The Neuroptera appears to be the only Order not so signalized. 

 It is worthy of notice that insects are usually noticed generically 

 and not specifically in Scripture. On the insects of Scripture see 

 Bochart Hicrozoic. ii. 1. iv. c Isai. vii. 18. Joel ii. JRcv. ix. 3. 



d Prov. xxx. 24. c 1 Kings iv. 33. 



