466 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



in which important work, walking in the steps of his 

 great compatriot Bernard de Jussieu, he disregarded all 

 artificial systems of Entomology, and attempted to con- 

 struct one upon a natural basis : and to this end, uniting 

 the consideration of the instruments of manducation 

 with that of the organs for flight and motion, and of 

 other external characters, or the system of Linne with 

 that of Fabricius, he became the founder of the modern 

 or Eclectic system 3 ; for he judiciously adopted that sen- 

 sible dictum of Scopoli, " Classes et Genera naturalia, 

 non sola instrumenta cibaria^ non solee alee, nee solaa 

 antennce constituunt, sed structura totius, ac cujusque 

 vel minimi discriminis diligentissima observatio b ." His 

 object has been in the above and subsequent works, by 

 dividing his Classes into natural Groups, from the Order 

 to the Genus, to trace out in all its windings, to its in- 

 most recesses, the perplexing labyrinth of the true system 

 of the CREATOR : of what he has effected, the subjoined 

 tables will give you a sufficient idea c . 



3 Fabricius calls this a chaos, and threatens to prove it, but he 

 never fulfilled his threat. See Fab. Supplem. Praef. i. 



b Introd. ad Hist. Nat. 401. 



c See N. Diet. cCHist. Nat. x. article Entomologie ; and Families 

 Naturelles du Regne Animal 262-. 



