424 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 



very useful introductory work, in which a great quantity of mate- 

 rials, scattered over numerous miscellaneous works, is brought to- 

 gether, and admirably digested. An English translation of the 

 first volume of this work, by Mr, Shuckard, has been published. 

 The second volume treats upon the descriptive portion of the 

 Hermptera and Homoptera. 



Cramer. — A Dutch author, distinguished for his beautiful work, 

 in quarto, upon exotic butterflies, in five volumes ; commenced in 

 1779. 



Curtis (John). — An English entomologist, and author of 

 British Entomology, or Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera 

 of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland ; the most elegant 

 periodical work hitherto published. Each genus is illustrated by a 

 coloured figure of one of the species, and with the details of the 

 mouth and antennse. A figure of a plant is added, upon which, 

 in many cases, the insect is found. 



CuviER (George Leopold Christian Frederick Dagobert, Baron). 

 — The greatest zoologist of modern days; born in 1769, in Alsatia; 

 died in Paris, in 1832. In his Traite Elementaire, and Anatomie 

 Comparee, he carefully investigated the comparative structures of 

 the annulose animals, and separated the Crustacea as a class from 

 insects. In his celebrated work, Le Regne Animal (The Animal 

 Kingdom), the details of the entomological portion were executed 

 by Latreille. 



De Geer (Charles, Baron). — A Swedish naturalist; born in 

 1720; known by his admirable Memoii-es pour servir a I'Histoire 

 des Insectes, — a work in seven quarto volumes, with a great number 

 of plates, in which the most ample details of the structure and 

 metamorphoses of a vast number of species are given. MacLeay 

 calls him the prince of entomological authors. 



Dejean (M. Le Comte). — A French entomologist, and the pos- 

 sessor of one of the most extensive collections of Coleoptera ever 

 yet made. He has published, 1. a Catalogue of his Coleoptera, 

 of wliich several editions have appeared ; 2. A description of the 

 species of predaceous land beetles {Cicindelidce and Carabidce), in 

 six octavo volumes, and (in conjunction .with Messrs. Boisduval 

 and Aube), a description of European beetles, now in course of 

 publication. 



DuFOUR (Mons. Leon). — A French author, still Hving ; distin- 

 guished for the great extent of his anatomical investigations upon 

 insects, illustrated by figures drawn by himself. They are published 

 in numerous foreign periodicals, especially in the Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles. 



Esenbeck (Dr. Nees Von). — Professor of Natural History at 

 Breslaw ; author of various memoirs upon the minute parasitic 



