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KIHBY (Rev. W.> The father of English entomo- 

 logists, author of a great number of detached Me- 

 moirs, and especially distinguished by his Monograph 

 upon the English Bees, a most invaluable work, and 

 a model for all subsequent monographers. He like- 

 wise published, in conjunction with W. Spence, an 

 Introduction to Entomology, in four volumes, 8vo., 

 a work of the greatest research. His Memoirs upon 

 the Strepsiptera, the Genus Apion, and his Bridge- 

 water Treatise, are also to be noticed. 



KLUG (Dr. Frederick). A Prussian Naturalist, 

 conseivator of the insects of the Berlin Royal Mu- 

 seum, particularly devoted to the Hymenoptera, and 

 distinguished by his Memoirs upon the Tenthre- 

 ilinida- (Blattwespen\ published in the Berlin Trans- 

 actions, and his Jalirbuclier der Entomologie, &c. 



LAMAKCK (Jean Baptiste de). A French naturalist, 

 chiefly distinguished for his works upon the inver- 

 tebrated animals, of which the most valuable is the 

 Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres, pre- 

 sentant les Caraclcres generaux, &c., in seven vols., 

 8vo. Paris, 1815. The class Arachnida was sepa- 

 rated from the insects by this author. 



LATREILLE (P. A.). Professor of Entomology at 

 the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Born 29th of No- 

 vember, 1762. Died 6th of February, 1832. One 

 of the most distinguished of modern entomologists, 

 whose writings for nearly half a century have tended 

 in the highest degree to improve the science which 

 lie so ardently loved. From the publication of his 

 Precis des Caracteres gtjne'riques des Insectes, pub- 

 lished in 1796', until that of his Cours d'Entomologie, 

 he ceased not to labour towards the accomplishment of 

 a natural classification of insects, and to a perfect 

 investigation of the general structure. His most 

 valuable works are Genera Crustaceorum et Insec- 

 torum, in four volumes, 8vo., and his Histoire gene- 

 rale des Insectes, in fourteen volumes, 8vo. 



LINN^US (Carl von). A Swedish naturalist of 

 the greatest celebrity. Born 24th of May, 1707, at 

 Roefthult in Sweden, and distinguished as the founder 

 of modern Zoological Classification and Nomen- 

 clature. His works appeared in succession from 1735 

 to 1770, each being advantageously remodelled. His 

 Systema Naturae, in which all the animals, plants, and 

 minerals with which the author was acquainted, and 

 his Fauna Sueciae, in which the animals of Sweden 

 were described, are most constantly cited. Of the 

 former work twelve editions appeared in the lifetime 

 of the author; the last of which was published in 

 1766, and which is considered as his most valuable 

 work. 



LYONNET (Pierre). Author of one of the most 

 elaborate treatises ever published, bearing the title of 

 " Traite de la Chenille qui rouge le Bois de Saule," 

 in which the anatomy of the larva of the goat-moth, 

 Couiu ligntperda, is described and illustrated in the 

 most complete manner. It was published in 1760, in 

 one volume, 4to., containing 615 pages and eighteen 

 plate*. The anatomy of the pupa and imago, but 

 in a comparatively imperfect state, have been lately 

 published. 



MAC LBAY(Wm. Sharp). Author of the Hora En- 

 tomologicae, a most remarkable and profound treatise.in 

 which the relations of animals are treated upon in a 

 peculiar manner. The work also contains a classi- 

 fication of the Lamellicorn beetles. He has also 

 published the first part of the Annulosa Jaranica, 

 containing a portion of the Coleoptera collected in 



Java by Dr. Horsfield, whose Lepidoptera Javanica 

 may be considered as a continuation of the same 

 work. 



MACQUART (Mons. J.). A French entomologist, 

 who has confined his attention to the dipterous in- 

 sects, and has published numerous Memoirs upon 

 those found in the North of France, in theTransactions 

 of the Natural History Society of Lille. Likewise 

 two volumes containing A General System of Dip- 

 terology, with plates, in the series of works termed 

 Suites a Buffon. 



MARSHAM (Thomas). Author of Entornologia 

 Brilannica (London, 1802), of which only the first 

 volume, containing the Coleoptera of Great Britain, 

 was published. Being, in consequence of the dif- 

 ficulty of intercourse with the continent during the 

 war, unacquainted with the labours of his contem- 

 poraries, many of the species which he described hud 

 previously received names, so that those which he 

 proposed have been rejected. 



MEIGEN (J. W.). A German author, who has 

 confined his attention to the dipterous insects of 

 Europe, which he has carefully described in his 

 Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten Europ. 

 Zweiflug. Insekten. Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818, six 

 volumes, 8vo. During the last autumn he exhibited 

 to the writer hereof a complete series of drawings of 

 all the species which he has described. It is greatly 

 to be hoped that this valuable collection will be 

 published. 



OLIVIER (Guillaume Antoine). Author of various 

 Entomological Memoirs, and especially of the Ento- 

 mological articles in the great French Enc3 r clopedie 

 Mcthodique, in which great numbers of new species 

 are described ; and likewise of the Histoire Gene- 

 rale des Insectes, of which work, six quarto volumes, 

 with many plates containing the Coleoptera only, have 

 appeared. 



PANZER (G. W.). A German entomologist, au- 

 thor of many works, but especially known by his 

 Fauna Insectorum Germanise initia, a very extensive 

 work, in which each species is figured. There were 

 1 10 numbers of this work published during the life- 

 time of the author, each containing 24 plates ; and 

 since his death, Ahrens and Herrick SchafFer have 

 commenced supplements. 



PAYKULL. A Swedish author, published in 1800 

 a valuable work, in 8 volumes, 8vo., upon the Coleo- 

 ptera of Sweden, the descriptions of which are very 

 exact. He also previously published detached Me- 

 moirs upon the Curabidce and Stap/iylinidce, Curculio- 

 nidce and Histeridas. 



PICTET. A Swiss author, who has lately published 

 a very complete woik upon the phyganea or caddice 

 flies, (order Trichoptera, Kirby). 



RAY (John). The first true systematist and author 

 of The Wisdon. of God, in the Works of the Creation, 

 and of a quarto volume, entitled Historia Insectorum, 

 London, 1710, and a tract with the title Methodus 

 Insectorum, seu Insecta in Methodum aliqualem 

 digesta. 



REAUMUR (Rene Antoine Erchault de). Born in 

 1683, at La Rochelle. He was a most astonishing 

 genius, devoting his attention to various branches of 

 philosophy ; but the most elaborate of his works was 

 that published under the title of Memoires pour 

 servir a 1'Histoire des Insectes, in G volumes, 4to., 

 containing 3,672 pages, and 267 plates. This im- 

 mortal work is so constantly cited in every work of 



