HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 463 



11. GLOSS ATA a . (Lepidoptera L.) Mouth with a spiral 



tongue between reflexed palpi. 



12. RYNGOTA 5 . (Hemiptera Latr.) Mouth with a ros- 



trum, having a jointed sheath. 



13. ANTLIATA C . (Diptera L., AnopluraLeach., Trachean 



Arachnida Latr. &c.) Mouth with a haustellum 

 without joints. 



The Orders of Fabricius are equivalent usually to the 

 primary groups of the Linnean Orders, and are regu- 

 lated chiefly by the antenna. 



In estimating the value of the above system, we must 

 bear in mind that, according to the statement of its au- 

 thor, it was intended to be partly artificial and partly 

 natural : artificial as to its Classes and Orders ; natural 

 as to its genera, species, and varieties*. He admitted, 

 however, that natural Classes, &c. do exist ; but he con- 

 tended that artificial ones should be substituted for them, 

 till further discoveries had cleared the way for their sa- 

 tisfactory developement e . As therefore his system, in 

 its primary and secondary groups, was confessedly arti- 

 ficial, and the only use of an artificial system being to 

 facilitate the study of any department of Natural History, 

 its value must be estimated by the facilities it affords to 

 the entomological student. But here, it must be allowed, 

 that instead of enlarging the entrance to the temple of 

 his science, it has made it narrower, and has placed 

 most discouraging impediments in his way. 



, A tongue. b 'Pwyxo;, A rostrum. 



e, A pump. d Dispositio insectorum sistit 



divisiones s. conjunctiones eorum, et est artificialis quae Classes et 

 Ordines, et naturalis quae genera, species, et varietates dccet. PJiilos. 

 Entomol. vi. .2. c Ibid. . 7. 



