446 HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
useless to enter into a particular detail of their works and 
merits. I cannot however omit noticing, on account of his 
inimitably accurate and chastely coloured representa- 
tions of Lepidoptera, Sepp’s beautiful Nederlandsche In- 
secten, in which the whole history of these animals, from 
theegg to the fly, is described and portrayed. Inour own 
country this era was distinguished by no entomological 
work of any great eminence. Albin, Wilks, and Harris 
produced the principal. Gould, however, without hav- 
ing any thing of system, gave an admirable account of 
English ants, which I formerly noticed ?. 
One of our first poets, the celebrated Gray, was also 
much devoted to Entomology. From his interleaved 
copy of the Systema Nature, that venerable and able na- 
turalist, Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. copied the following 
characters of the genera of insects of Linné, drawn up 
in Latin Hexameters, which he kindly communicated to 
me. 
CoLEoPTERA. 
Alas lorica tectas Coleoptera jactant. 
* 
Serra pedum prodit Scarabeum et fissile cornu. 
Dermesti antennz circum ambit lamina caulem 
Qui caput incurvum timidus sub corpore celat. 
In pectus retrahens caput abdit claviger Hister. 
Occiput Attelabi in posticum vergit acumen. 
Curculo ingenti protendit cornua rostro. 
Silpha leves peltz atque elytrorum exporrigit oras. 
Truncus apex clave, atque antennule Coccionelle. 
aK 
Cassida sub clypei totam se margine condit. 
Chrysomela inflexa lorice stringitur ora. 
Gibba caput Meloé incurvat thorace rotundo. 
Oblongus frontem et tenues clypei exerit oras 
Tenebrio. Abdomen Mordelle lamina vestit. 
Curta elytra ostentat Staphylis caudamque recurvam. 
* Vor. II..p. 58, note 3, 
