xiii. 



This appears to be the only English entomological work during a period 

 of twenty years, the minds of the men of science being wholly occupied with 

 the theories and views of the celebrated Sir Isaac Newton. 



We next arrive at a name memorable in the annals of British entomology, 

 that of Moses Harris, who has contributed more, perhaps, than all our 

 entomologists who preceeded him, towards the knowledge and natural history 

 of British insects, lie was also one of the first who endeavoured to form an 

 Aurelian Society in this country, for the purpose of recording and diffusing 

 the knowledge he had acquired, and of which he was chosen to be the secretary. 

 The first of his works — " The Aurelian or a Collection of Butterflies and 

 Moths and the Plants on which they feed and are found, Delineated and 

 Coloured, with an Explanation thereof/* was published in folio, at London, 

 in the year of our Lord 1766. 



The butterflies in the work are 21 in number, viz : The Comma, Small 

 Tortoise-shell, Purple Empeior, Red Admiral, Peacock, Black-veined White, 

 Purple Hair-streak, Painted Lady, Marmoris or Marbled White, Grand 

 Surprize or Camberwell Beauty, Glanville Fritillary, Little Gate-keeper, 

 Green Ely or Hair-streak, Dark Green or Silver-spotted Eritillary, Dishclout 

 or Greasy or Marsh Eritillary, High Brown Eritillary, Clouded Yellow, Wood 

 White, and White Admirable. 



The Camberwell Beauty is an addition to the British Eauna. 



Now comes a very important period, that of the introduction of the Lin- 

 naean system into England, for in 1769, John Berkenhout, M.D., published 

 in English, in small octavo, the first volume of his " Outlines of the Natural 

 History of Great Britain/' containing the animal kingdom; and amongst 

 other things, as many insects as he could ascertain, arranged according to 

 the Linnasan system, amounting to about 600 species. The butterflies he 

 includes are as follows : — 1, Machaon, Boyal William or Swallow-tail; 2, 

 Podalirius; 3, Cratcegi, White Butterfly, with black veins; 4, Brassicce, 

 Great White Cabbage; 5, Bapce, Small White Cabbage; 6, Napi, White 

 Butterfly, with green veins ; 7, Cardamines, Orange-tip ; 8, By ale, Spanish 

 Butterfly, more properly Edusa, Clouded Yellow; 9, Uhamni^ Brimstone; 

 10, Hyperantus, Brown-eyed or Kinglet; 11, lo, Peacock; 12, Mara, 

 Great Argus, more properly Megara, Wall; 13, JEgeria, Wood Argus or 

 Speckled Wood ; 14, Galathea, Marble ; 15, Semele, Black-eyed Marble; 

 16, Jurtina, Meadow Brown; 17, Cardui, Painted Lady; 18, Iris, Emperor 

 of the Woods or Purple High-flyer; 19, Aniiopa, Willow Butterfly or 

 Camberwell Beauty; 20, Polychlorus, Great Tortoise-shell ; 21, Urtica, 

 Small Tortoise-shell; 22. C-album, Comma; 23, Atalanta, Red Admiral; 



