l-'<i ALPHABETICAL LIST OP 



llriii u. F. A Swiss entomologist, distinguished for his inter- 

 esting series of Observations upon the Economy of Bees. 



1 1 ritKii, P. Equally distinguished with his father for his ex- 

 tensive series of Observations upon the Economy of the Ants. 

 His Memoirs have been translated into English. 



HUBNER. A German entomologist, author of a valuable work 

 containing figures and descriptions of European Lepidoptera, (Der 

 Sammliing Europaischer Schmetterlinge), in quarto. 



JURINE (Louis). A Swiss entomologist, author of a valuable 

 work upon the Hymenoptera, in which the structure of the veins 

 of the wings was employed to characterize the genera, intitled 

 Nouvelle Methode de classer les Hymenopteres et les Dipu-res. 

 Vol. 1, Hymenopteres. Geneva, 1807, quarto. 



KIRBY (Rev. W.) The father of English entomologists, author 

 of a great number of detached Memoirs, and especially distin- 

 guished by his Monograph upon the English Bees, a most invalu- 

 able work, and a model for all subsequent monographers. He 

 likewise published, in conjunction with W. Spence, an Introduction 

 to Entomology, in 4 vols. 8vo, a work of the greatest research. 

 His Memoirs upon the Strepsiptera, the Genus Apion, and his 

 Bridgewater Treatise, are also to be noticed. 



KLUG (Dr. Frederick). A Prussian naturalist, conservator of the 

 insects of the Berlin Royal Museum, particularly devoted to the 

 Hymenoptera, and distinguished by his Memoirs upon the Tenthre- 

 dinidac (Blattwespen), published in the Berlin Transactions, and 

 his Jahrbucher der Entomologie, &c. 



LAMARCK (Jean Baptiste de). A French naturalist, chiefly 

 distinguished for his works upon the invertebrated animals, of 

 which the most valuable is the Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sins 

 Vertebres, presentant les Caractures generaux, &c., in 7 vols., 8vo, 

 Paris, 1815. The class Arachnida was separated from the insects 

 by this author. 



I. \ i inn. IK (P. A.) Professor of Entomology at the Jardin 

 des Plantes, Paris. Born 29th of November, 1762. Died 6th of 

 February, 1832. One of the most distinguished of modern ento- 

 mologists, whose writings for nearly half a century have tended in 

 the highest degree to improve the science which he so ardently 

 loved. From the publication of his Precis des CaracttVrs u r : n>-- 

 riques des Insectes, published in 1796, until that of his (Jours 

 d'Entomologie, he ceased not to labour towards the accomplish- 

 ment of a natural classification of insects, and to a perfect imrsti- 

 gation of their general stmcture. His most valuable works are 

 Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum, 4 vols. 8vo, and hi* lli>n>iiv 

 m'-iu'-ralc dr.s I used. -s. in 14 Vols. 8VO. 



i.iNNKUs (Carl von). A Swedish naturalist of the greatest 



