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toire Abregee dcs InfeStes* published fl£ 

 Paris in 1764, has befides changing the or- 

 ders, or firft grand divifions, of the Lin* 

 nasan Syftem, formed from the different 

 families of Linnaean genera, many new 

 genera, fome of them very judicioufly, 

 others, perhaps, without fufficient grounds. 

 It may, however, be faid, in defence of his 

 frequent divifions of the Linnaean genera, 

 that, as his Syftem was a partial one, con- 

 fined to the infedts of a fmall diftridt, he 

 could not take notice, in his Work, of thofe, 

 (as I may call them) intermediate infedts, 

 which connedt the feveral families, and 

 prove them to belong to the fame genus, 

 fuch infeds being frequently exotic. 



Scopoli, in his TLntomologia Cafniolicd, 

 publifhed at Vienna in 1763, has made 

 few alterations in the Linnxan Syftem *, 

 but thofe feem every one to be well 

 founded, and his fpecific characters equal 

 thofe of Linnseus. Schacffer, in his Elementa 

 Entomologies ', printed atRatifbon, in 1766, 

 has followed GeofFroy with very few and 

 inconfiderable variations; but his figures 



convey 



