MEMOIR OP LATREILLE. 43 
The figure of an Egyptian Scarabaeiis {Ateuchus 
sacer) is placed at the commencement, and that of 
a jMoth (Safumia Pyri) at the end of the above 
inscription. 
On the left face of the obelisk are the following 
words : — 
Precis des Caracteres dcs Insectes, 
1797.* 
Genera Insectorum^ 
1806. 
Begne Animal, Crustaces, Arachnides et Insectes, 
1817—1829. 
&c. 
And on the right : — 
Expedition de Suetone Paulin, 
I8O7. 
Notice sur les Seres et VAtlantide, 
1817, 
&c. &c. 
The bronze bust, which is of the natural size, has 
the name Latreille carved on its base. On one of 
* It is not a little singular that an error in date should occur 
in such circumstances. The work mentioned was published in 
1796. As the above inscription, however, is copied, not from 
the monument itself, but from the Ann, of the Ent. Soc. of 
France, the error may be typographical, as that work, unlike 
French scientific pubHcations in general, is far from being ac- 
cm-ately printed. 
