4-38 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



and rudely figured ; as they were likewise most misera- 

 bly in Cuba's Qrtus Sanitatis, published in 1485, in 

 which insects and Crustacea were described under the 

 three different denominations of Animals, Birds, and 

 Fishes; so that but little profit was at first derived from 

 the writings of Aristotle, Invertebrate animals not being 

 then even honoured with 



" A local habitation and a name." 



This unpromising and apparently hopeless state of the 

 science proved, however, the dawn of its present meridian 

 brightness. 



The first attempt at a separate and systematical ar- 

 rangement of insects subsequent to the times of Aristotle, 

 was made in the ponderous volumes of Ulysses Aldro- 

 vandus, who, disregarding the Stagyrite, arranged in- 

 sects according to the medium they inhabit, as you will 

 see in the subjoined table : 



f Membra- ( Favifica. 

 f Anely tra J nacea ) ^" ** a " 

 fAlata < C vifica 



\Elytrota. l*arinosa. 

 fPedata< 



Terrestria j Uptera | JftgJ; 



(..Apoda. 



f Pedata 5 Paucipeda. 



( Multipeda. 

 .Aquatica < 



(.Apoda. 



This artificial and meager system, which mixed insects 

 with Annelida, was adopted by Charlton and other au- 

 thors; and even in the eighteenth century had a patron 

 of great eminence, who, endeavouring to improve upon 



