The entomologist's text-book; an introduction to the natural history, structure, physiology and classification of insects, including the Crustacea and Arachnida / By J.O. Westwood.

  • Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893.
Date:
1838
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    rials, scattered over numerous miscellaneous works, is brought to- gether, and admirably digested. An English translation of the first volume of this work, by Mr. Shuckard, has been published. The second volume treats upon the descriptive portion of the Hemiptera and Homoptera. Cramer.—A Dutch author, distinguished for his beautiful work, in quarto, upon exotic butterflies, in five volumes ; commenced in 1779; Curtis (John).—An English entomologist, and author of British Entomology, or Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great Britain and Ireland; the most elegant periodical work hitherto published. Each genus is illustrated by a coloured figure of one of the species, and with the details of the mouth and antenne. A figure of a plant is added, upon which, in many cases, the insect is found. Cuvier (George Leopold Christian Frederick Dagobert, Baron). —The greatest zoologist of modern days; born in 1769, in Alsatia; died in Paris, in 1832. In his Traité Elémentaire, and Anatomie Comparée, he carefully investigated the comparative structures of the annulose animals, and separated the Crustacea as a class from insects. In his celebrated work, Le Régne Animal (The Animal Kingdom), the details of the entomological portion were executed by Latreille. De Guer (Charles, Baron).—A Swedish naturalist; born in 1720; known by his admirable Mémoires pour servir 4 I’ Histoire des Insectes,—a work in seven quarto volumes, with a great number of plates, in which the most ample details of the structure and metamorphoses of a vast number of species are given. MacLeay calls him the prince of entomological authors. Desuan (M. Le Comte).—A French entomologist, and the pos- sessor of one of the most extensive collections of Coleoptera ever yet made. He has published, 1. a Catalogue of his Coleoptera, of which several editions have appeared ; 2. A description of the species of predaceous land beetles (Cicindelide and Carabide), in six octavo volumes, and (in conjunction ,with Messrs. Boisduval and Aubé), a description of European beetles, now in course of publication. Durour (Mons. Léon).—A French author, still living; distin- guished for the great extent of his anatomical investigations upon insects, illustrated by figures drawn by himself. They are published in numerous foreign periodicals, especially in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Esrnpecx (Dr. Nees Von).—Professor of Natural History at Breslaw ; author of various memoirs upon the minute parasitic