The Coleopterist's Manual: Containing the Lamellicorn Insects of Linneus and Fabricius (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Beginner than by examining in detail the various Orders, Families, Genera and Species into which different authors have sub-divided the class Insecta. I commence this Manual with the Order of the Coleoptera, placing in a tabular arrangement the La mellicorns described by Linneus. The first column will give the Linnean species - the second the country they inhabit, which in the Systema Naturae is ex ceedingly faulty, as the Geographical distribution of Insects in those days was little attended to-the third column will contain an arrangement of the species under the several genera which modern Entomologists have adopted. Next to the Linnean Lamellicorns, will appear a tabular arrangement of those of Fabricius, divided into four columns. The first containing his genera, the second his recorded species, the third the countries they in habit (often as faulty as the former), and the last will present a generic arrangement of authors similar to the preceding, and exhibiting as far as possible the state of modern science. It may be necessary here to give my reasons why I have in several cases changed the generic names, such as are in common use on the Continent. Mv friend, Mr. William Sharpe macleay, has very properly restricted the.

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