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ENTOMOLOGY. 



In the Transactions of tlic Paris Academy for this year, 

 we find a paper by Mot and, entitled, Memoirc sur tes Vers 

 de Truffcs, et sur lis Mouches qui en proviennent. 



J. S. Semler also published, in the German languge, 

 under the title Versuch eincs Diarium uber die Economic 

 Mancher Iisecten im Winter. 



Another interesting work appeared this year, JVues 

 Magazin fur die Liebhaber der Enlomologie, Herausge- 

 geben, von Joh. Caspar Fuesly, Winderthur, in octavo. 



A Part of the Encyclopedic Methodique, comprehend- 

 ing Histoire JVaturclle des Animaux, was published in 

 Paris in this year. 



In 1783, Retzius produced his Genera et Sfiecies In- 

 sectorum, in which the method of De Geer is simpli- 

 fied, and the terminology of Linne is partly adapted to 

 that performance. He divides insects into fourteen 

 classes,' under the titles, Lepidoptera, Minguia, JVcu- 

 roptera, Hymenoptera, Siphonata, Dermaptera, Hemijii 

 tera, Colcoptera, Hallerata, Proboscidea, Sucloria, An- 

 cenata, Alrichelia, and Crustacea. 



In this year, a tract on the Afihides {plant-lice, or 

 pucerons), appeared, entitled, JVachlese zur Bonnetischen 

 Intectologie. 



And W. Curtis published an interesting little pam- 

 phlet, A short History of the Brown-tail Moth, the larvse 

 of which appeared in such immense swarms in the 

 fields surrounding London, during the summer of 1782, 

 and despoiled so many trees of their foliage, as to create 

 apprehensions of the total destruction of the whole ve- 

 getable tribe. The object of this tract was to show, that 

 grass, not being the food of these voracious animals, 

 would escape their attack. This is an additional proof, 

 that some benefit at least may result from an acquain- 

 tance with the natural history of insects ; for the author, 

 by this publication, was enabled to dispel the uneasiness 

 occasioned by these supposed " ministers of famine," 

 and which prevailed to such an alarming extent through- 

 out the whole population of that vast metropolis, that 

 prayers were ordered to he read in all the churches to 

 avert the supposed impending calamity. 



And the following work, which we have never seen, 

 but understand to be a valuable publication, Abhand- 

 lungen der Hallischen Nalur-forschcnden Geseltschaft, 

 Dessan unci Leipzig, in octavo. 



Also, the interesting work by Baron De Geer, Gene- 

 ra et Sfiecies Insectorum, currante, A. J. Retzio, Lipsise, 

 octavo. 



In 1784, an elementary work, in octavo, entitled, En- 

 tomologia Scolarum in usu Concinnata, was published by 

 J. A. B. Bergstraesser. 



Thunberg, in this year, published his Dissertatio Sis- 

 tens Insecta Svecica. 



And, in the same year, Harrer wrote on the insects of 

 Germany, under the title, G. A. Harrer's Beschreibung 

 Derjeniger Insecten Welche Her D. I. C. Schaeffer, Sec. 

 at Regensburg, in octavo. 



Herbst also produced his work, entitled, Kurze Ein- 

 Uitung zur Kenntniss der lnsekten, Berlin, octavo. 



Laicharting published at Zurich, Johan Nepomuk, 

 von Laicharting Verzekhniss der Tyroler Insecten, 2 

 torn, octavo. 



In 1785, the following works appeared : 



Entomologia Parisiensis, sive Catalogus Insectorum 

 qua in agro Parisiensi refieriuntur, Secundum Methodum 

 Geoffraanam, life, edente A. F. De Fourcroy, duodeci- 

 mo, in two volumes. 



Matthew Martyn's Aurelian's Fade Mecum, Sec. was 

 published in Exeter, The insects are whimsically ar- 



ranged, according to the Linncan classes and orders of 

 plants on which they feed. 



Historia JVaturalis Curculionum Suecia ; auctorc Ga- 

 briel Bonsdorff, &c. Upsuliae ; in quarto. 



JYatursystem alter Bekantcn in und Auslandischen In- 

 secten, &c. von Carl. Guslaf. Jablonsky, Berlin, Fortge- 

 setzt von J. F. VV. Herbst. 



Nath. Gotfr. Leske Reise Durch Sachsen in Riicksicht 

 der JValurgeschichte und Economie, Leipzig ; in quarto. 



Natural- Historische Briefe uber Estreich, isfc. von 

 Franz, von Paula Schrank, und Karl Erenbert Ritter, 

 von Moll ; Salzburgh. 



In 1786, Xavier Walfen published an account of the 

 insects inhabiting the Cape of Good Hope. 



Beitrage zur Geschichte der Schmetterlinge, Ausburg. 



Schmiedlcins Einleitung in die Insectenlehre, Leipzig, 

 in octavo. 



Scopoli Delicia Flore et Fauna, isfc. Ticini, in folio. 



In 1787, were published the following works : 



By Dominicus Cyrillus, a folio work on the insects of 

 Naples, entitled Entomologia Neapolitans. 



A curious little tract, on the gad-fly, was published in 

 Leipsic, by J. S. Fischer, entitled Observations de Oes- 

 tro ovino at que bovino facta. 



Fabricius printed his Mantissa Insectorum, isfc. Haf- 

 niae, in two octavo volumes. 



Vincentii Petagnae Specimen Insectorum Ulterioris 

 Calabria, Francofurti et Moguntiae. 



Meidinger Nomenclator, ( Versuch einer Deutschen 

 Systematischen JVomenclatur aller in der letzen Ausgabe 

 des Linneischen Natursystems btfindlichen Geschlechter 

 der Thiere, Wien.) octavo. 



Kongb. Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, 

 in octavo. This work is often quoted thus, Act. Holm. 



John Adams published Essays on the Microscope, in 

 quarto, at London. 



In 1789, a series of letters on the important subject 

 of the cochineal insect, (which had been discovered at 

 Madras a few years before,) from James Anderson, ad- 

 dressed to Sir Joseph Banks, from Madras, were pub- 

 lished. Two other letters on this important subject have 

 been published since. 



And in the same year, Swederus published a mono- 

 graph on that curious and interesting genus Cera/itcrus, 

 in a memoir, entitled Bcskrifuing fwa elt nytt genus ib- 

 land insecterna, hbrande til Colcoptera. 



The work of M. B. Borkhausen, treating of the lepi- 

 dopterous insects of Europe, part 1. appeared at Franc- 

 fort, under the title JValurgeschichte der Europaischen 

 Schmetterlinge nach Stjstematischer ordnung. 



J. V . Gmelin published his edition of the Linncan Sys- 

 tema JValura. The entomological part is comprized in 

 three parts, and was published in Leipsic. The editor 

 is considerably indebted to the writings of Fabricius ; 

 and although he rejects his classification, yet he has 

 copied the species, and incorporated them with the Lin- 

 nean genera, which he has divided into families answer- 

 ing to the Fabrician genera, and has, by this means, very 

 materially augmented and improved the original work 

 of Linne; although we must allow that he has commit- 

 ted a vast number of the most inexecusable blunders, 

 especially in his quotations and references to plates. He 

 has also, in many instances, described the same animal 

 twice, or three times, under different names. We are 

 surprised that his errors are less numerous, as he can 

 be esteemed in no other light than as an industrious 

 closet compiler. 



In this year, also, was published, in Leipsic, octavo, 



