AM) NOMENCLATORS. Xlll 



" Bemerk. iiber die Gattung Pulex," published in the 

 N. Act. Nat. Cur. 1838. 



BRAHM, Nic. J v author of " Handbuch der okonomischen 

 Insectengeschichte " (Mainz, 1792), " Fauna Entom. der 

 Gegend um Mainz " (Giessen, 1793), " Insektenkalender 

 fiir Sammler und Oekonomen" (Mainz, 1790-91), &c. 

 Also wrote in Scriba's " Beitragen zur Insektenge- 

 schichte" (Frankfort, 1790-93). 



BRUAND, The*ophile, of Besanyon; author of " Entomologie " 

 (Besanon, 1844), of papers in the Annales de la Soc. 

 Entom. de France, and of the " Essai Monographique 

 sur la Tribu des Psychides" (1853). 



CLERCK, Karl, a Swedish entomologist, the precise dates of 

 whose birth and death are not known : he was the friend 

 and disciple of Linne, and a Member of the Royal Acad. 

 of Sciences at Upsala. His chief works are "Aranei 

 Suecici, descrip. et fig. illustrati" (Stockholm, 1757), 

 " Nomeiiclator extemporaneus rerum naturalium, Plan- 

 tarum, Insectorum, Conchylium, sec. Syst. Nat. Linn, 

 (ed. X mas ) editus" (1759), "Icones Insectorum rariorum 

 cumnominibus eorum triv. locisque e C. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 allegatis" (1759-64), and papers in the Vet. Akad. 

 Handlingar. Linne speaks of the Icones as " pulcher- 

 rimum opus quod etiamnum vidit orbis litteratus:" a 

 revision of it has lately appeared in the Entom. Zeitung 

 of the Stettin Society. 



CURTTS, John, F.L.S., late Pres. Ent. Soc. of London, born in 

 Norfolk, and originally employed near Norwich as an 

 entomological artist : not content with merely drawing 

 insects, Mr. Curtis studied their forms and habits, and 

 made a Collection of all Orders of British and foreign 

 Insects : in 1829 he published " A Guide to the Arrange- 

 ment of British Insects/' and between 1824-40 appeared, 

 in 16 vols. 8vo, the "British Entomology/' a work allowed 

 on all hands to contain some of the best entomological 

 figures existing. Mr. Curtis is also the author of nume- 

 rous papers in the Entomological Magazine, in the Trans- 

 actions Zool. Soc. and Linn. Soc., the Ann. of N. Hist., 

 and in the Journ. Agric. Soc. of Eng., on the Nat. Hist, 

 and (Economy of Insects affecting the Crops : the last- 

 mentioned papers, illustrated by a large number of plates 

 representing the various species of insects obnoxious to 

 the horticulturist and agriculturist, are now in course of 

 republi cation. 



DALE, J. C., M.A. (Cantab.), F.C.P.S., F.L.S., of Glanville's 

 Wootton, Dorsetshire, V.P. of the Dorset County Nat. 



