Abstract
THIS is a reprint of a very rare book, which is seldom to be found even in the best entomological libraries. It commences with a table of the fourteen classes into which the author divides insects (understanding by that term Arachnida, Crustacea, and Myriopoda, as well as Hexapoda), followed by o systematic characters for 351 genera recognised by Latreille, one or two others, described by other authors, being passed over as at present unknown to him. Several very familiar genera, such as Ypsolophus and Adela, are characterised in this book for the first time, but without indication of types, for which reference must be made to Latreille's later works, It is always unsatisfactory to entomological authors to be in doubt respecting the actual contents of a book they only know at secondhand, and we are glad that this scarce book has now been rendered accessible to them in a complete (and, we hope, accurate) reprint.
Précis des Caractères génériques des Insectes, disposés dans un Ordre naturel par le Citoyen Latrcille.
A Paris, chez Prévôt, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, et à Brive, chez F. Bourdeaux, Imprimeur Libraire. A Brive, de l'Imprimérie de F. Bourdeaux, an 5 de la R. [1796]. Pp. xiv + 208. (Imprime à 200 Exemplaires par A. Hermann, n.d.) Price 7 francs.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Précis des Caractères génériques des Insectes, disposés dans un Ordre naturel par le Citoyen Latrcille . Nature 77, 77 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077077a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/077077a0