THE mSE OF THE LITERATURE OF ENTOMOLOGY, 



By Willoughby Gaedxer. 



(Concluded.) 



We now come to tlie last class of books, in which we include all 

 those giving accounts of individual species. Xaturally the insects 

 taken most notice of are the bees, and therefore we find frequent 

 allusions to them among the writers of the various countries of 

 Europe. Beginning at home, Thomas Hill in his work on 

 gardening, has a chapter on bees ; in Spain, Torres fills an 

 octavo on the keeping of bees. (^2) Some time previously, in Ger- 

 many, Stanhuff devoted a whole quarto to the habits of bees, and 

 the allegories suggested by them. {^^) Silkworms, also, on account 

 of the practical value of the silk they produced, claimed some atten- 

 tion, and accordingly we find Serres (3^) at Paris and London, 

 LiBANUS (25) in Germany, and Tellier (^6) in Paris again, publishing 

 works on their history and culture ; and in London, in 1609, an 

 anonymous writer fills a large volume with the history of the mulberry 

 tree and the silkworm (3"). At this time also the ants obtained a 

 small volume on their history by Jerome Wilde (^^) ; Aristotle's 

 theory about wasps was compiled in a work by Cagxatus, (^^) a 

 naturalist of Yerona ; and a curious volume was published a little 

 later by an anonymous writer. (^) Last, but not least, was Jacob 

 Hoefnagel's book called " Various Illustrations of Flying Insects, 

 illustrated most accurately from life." (■^^) This book — which has no 

 N. S., ToL. VI.— Oct., 1880. 



(31) A Briefe Treatyse of Gardenynge ; teaching the apt dressing, sowing, and 

 Betting of Gardens, with the remedies against such beastes, wormes, flyes, etc., that 

 commonlye annoye gardens. To this is annexed the maruelous gouernement, 

 propertie, and benefits of the Bees, with the rare secret of honey and of the waxe ; 

 in 4to, London, 1574, etc. 



(32) Tratato de la cnltivacion y cnra de la^ colmenas ; iu 8vo, Alcala, 1586. 



(33) Orat. de principiis proprietatibns apium et allegoriis quae in harum contem- 

 platione occummt : in 4to, Tittenb., 1556. 



(34) La CueiUette de la Soie pour la nourriture des vers qui la font ; in 8vo, 

 Paris, 1599. 



(35) Historia Bombycum, in 8vo, Franckf., 1599. 



(36) 1. Brief discours concernant la maniere de nourrir la vers ^ sois ; in 12mo, 

 Paris, 1602. 2. iMemoires et Instructions pour I'etablissement des mtuiers et I'art 

 de faire la soie en France (with figures) ; 4to, Paris, 1603. 



(37) Instructions for the increasing of ^Mulberry Trees and the breeding of Silk= 

 ■worms, and the making of Silk in this Kingdom ; in 4to, London, 1609. 



(38) De Formica liber unus, 8vo, AmbergEe, 1615. 



(39) - Variorum Observationum libri IV. in 8vo, Eomse, 1581, and other editions. 



(40) Laus Pulicis in vino se suffocaturi versiculis anacreontis inclusa ; in 12mo, 

 Schleus, 1631. 



(41) Diversae Insectorum volatilium Icones, ad vivum acciiratsssime depictae ; iu 

 4to, Francofurti ad Maenum. 



