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scription of each; Professor Bradley, 
whose multifarious works on agriculture, 
horticulture, and in various. branches of 
natural history, shew more industry than 
science ; he mentions the Duchess of 
Beaufort, as “ having bred a greater 
variety of English Insects than were ever 
rightly observed by any one person in 
Europe,” and Sir Hans Sloane, Mr. 
Vincent, Dr Ruysch, Mr. Seba, and 
Mr. Dandridge, as - having surprising 
collections of insects. From this time, 
(1739) to 1758, no publication on the 
subject of entomology appeared, when 
Dr John Hill published, in folio, an 
English translanon of Swammerdam’s 
jJarge work on Insects, and in 1778, he 
also published, “ A Decade of curious 
Insects, some of them not described be- 
fore”; some observations on the ninth, 
the Alucita pallida, (straw-coloured 
chinch) it may be worth while to give 
here, especially as the practice of keeping 
the plant alluded to, beth in our bed 
rooms and sitting rooms, seems to be 
vapidly increasing on account of its fra- 
grance, 
“This is a creature, says Dr. Hill, 
very strange in its nature and history, 
and once came as strangely before me. 
A studious gentleman, very subject to 
the head-ache, which he and his physi- 
cian beth attributed to great attention, 
sneezing one day with violence as he 
was wriling, saw some atoms a moment 
afterwards upon the writing paper, and 
they plainly moved; he doubled up the 
paper and brought it to me, when we 
laid a parcel of these moviny particles 
before the lucernal microscope, when 
they appeared in continual motion, vi- 
brating their antlers, shaking their wings, 
and turning up their tails to their heads 
in the manner of ear-wigs, but with in- 
credible swiftness. 
“?Twas palpable they had been dis- 
charged from his nose, and ’tis easy to 
see from whence they were thrown, and 
to understand how they might have 
caused intolerable pain, whilst they were 
thus rousing and moving their irritating 
hairs and feathers, upona part where the 
verysubstance ofthe brain isalmost naked. 
'“ 7 had seen the same species inhabi- 
ting the flowers of the plant, Migunio- 
-nette, and on enquiring, found that he 
had that plant in his chamber.” 
The following list of names will shew 
the writers on entomology in Great Bri- 
tain, sice 1758; Dr. Berkenhout; John 
Reinhold Forster; Dr. Lettsom; Dr, 
Drury, F.L.S.; Benjamin Wilks; 1. 
Proceedings of Learned Societies, 
[ Octo, 
P. Yeates; W. Curtis, F. L.S.; Moses. 
Harris; James Barbut; Matthew Mar- 
tyn; Dr. Shaw; E, Donovan; Thomas 
Martyn; William Lewin, F.L.S.; John 
Francillon; Dr. J. E. Smith, P.L.S.; 
Dr. Turton; Rev. M. Kirby; A. H. 
Haworth, F.L.S. and P.E.S.; Thomas 
Marsham, F.L.S.; and James Sowerby, 
F. L. S. An appendix to this paper, 
contains the names of Francis Willough- 
by, and Sir Robert Sibbald, M. D. 
The second paper is “ On Rearing 
Insects,” by the Rev. Thomas Skrim- 
shire, L. L. B. and F.E.S. For this pur- 
pose, Mr. S. has a number of tin boxes 
about two inches square, two sides of 
which, with the top and bottom, are 
perforated with small holes; the re- 
maining two sides are glazed; one 
of the tin sides constitutes a door, which 
slides in a groove. Twelve of these are 
placed in a wooden trough partitioned 
off for each box, about a quarter of an 
inch deep, and made perfectly water- 
tight. Only one caterpillar of a brood. 
is placed in each of these boxes, which 
are numbered. A book is kept nume-- 
bered to correspond with the boxes, in 
which is entered the history of the insect, 
from the day that it is placed in its box, 
A little water is poured into each parti- 
tion of the wood trough, which serves 
to keep the food moist, as also the earth, 
which is put in the tin bexes, that the 
caterpillar may undergo its metamor- 
phosis in the most natural manner. Mr, 
S. has observed that many of the pupe 
have died in the earth; which may be 
in a great measure, Owing to its 
binding so hard round them as to pre- 
vent perspiration and breathing. He, 
therefore, procured a looser kind of 
earth from a decayed tree, and mixed 
it with equal proportions of sand and 
saw-dust. 
Tn the third paper. the Rev. John 
Burrell gives an account of a rare and 
curious insect, Lyg@us micropterus, not 
before described by any author. Mr. 
B. thus describes it. 
L. viridis, elytris venis duabus et mar- 
gine interioribus rubris. 
Has. In Graminibus in locis creta- 
ceis. Aug. init. < tae Ree 
Long. Corp. 3§ lin, : 
Descripr. Antenne quadriarticu- 
late rufe, ultimo articulo fusco, setose. 
Caput viride, margine pasteriore rufos 
flavo, oculis fuscis, setosum. | 
Rostrum longum, pallidum. 
Thorax setosus, viridis, 
Scutullum thorace cencoler. 
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