John L. Le Conte and George H. Horn.—Classification of the Coleoptera
of North America. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution, 1883.
This is the most recent and the only complete classification of
North American Coleoptera. It contains also Appendix ii, a
“list of bibliographical references to memoirs, in which more
or less complete synopses of the families, genera, and species of
the Coleoptera of the United States have been published.”
J. T. Lacordaire.—Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des
Coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres
proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. [Completed by J. Chapuis.]
Paris, France, 1854–1876. 12 vols, and 1 vol. plates.
[10]William Le Baron.—Outlines of Entomology, published in connection
with the author's Annual Reports upon injurious insects. Part first.
Including the Order of Coleoptera. Fourth Annual Report on the Noxious
and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois. Sep. Edit. Springfield,
1874.
G. A. W. Herrich-Schaeffer.—Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter
aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge. Vol. i. Regensburg, 1850–'58; Vol.
ii, Pt. 1, 1869.
Contains a classification of the Lepidoptera, which forms the basis
of our present arrangement.
John G. Morris.—Synopsis of the described Lepidoptera of North America.
Part i. Diurnal and Crepuscular Lepidoptera. Washington, Smithsonian
Institution, 1862.
Compiled descriptions of the North American Lepidoptera, from the
Rhopalocera to the Bombycidæ.
H. Strecker.—Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres et Heteroceres, indigenous and
exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations. Reading, Pa.,
1872–'77.
Fifteen parts of this work have been published containing figures
and descriptions of many North American species.
John B. Smith.—An Introduction to a Classification of the North
American Lepidoptera. <Bull. Brookl. Ent. Soc., Vol. vii, 1884, pp. 70–74 and 81–83.
A synopsis of the families of Lepidoptera based on
Herrich-Schaeffer's classification.
——Synopsis of the Genera of the North American Rhopalocera. <Bull.
Brookl. Ent. Soc, Vol. vi, 1883, pp. 37–45.
E. Doubleday and W. C. Hewitson.—The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera,
comprising their generic characters, a notice of their transformations,
and a catalogue of the species of each genus;
illustrated, with 86 colored plates from drawings by W. C. Hewitson. 2
vols., London, 1846–'52.
This work was completed by Westwood after the death of Doubleday.
S. H. Scudder.—Butterflies: Their structures, changes, and
life-histories, with special reference to American forms. Being an
application of the “Doctrine of descent” to the study of
Butterflies, with an appendix of practical instructions. 321 pp. and 201
text figs. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1881.
——The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada with
special reference to New England. 3 vols., Cambridge, Mass., 1889; pp.
1958, plates 59. (Published by the author. Cost about $75 for 3 vols.)
G. H. French.—The Butterflies of the Eastern United States. For the use
of classes in Zoölogy and private students. Philadelphia,
Lippincott & Co., 1886.
Gives synopses of the genera and species, and description of the
species.
W. H. Edwards.—Butterflies of North America. Boston, Houghton,
Mifflin & Co.
Two volumes are completed and the third is in course of
publication.
Herbert Osborn.—Classification of Hemiptera. <Entomologica Amer., Vol. i, 1885, pp. 21–27.
Short characterization of the whole order, with tables of suborders
and families.
——Pediculi and Mallophaga affecting Man and the Lower Animals.
Constituting Bulletin No. 7 of the Division of Entomology, U. S.
Department of Agriculture. Washington, 1891.
P. R. Uhler.—List of Hemiptera of the region west of the Mississippi
River, including those collected during the Hayden explorations of 1873.
<Bull. U. S. Geolog. and Geogr. Survey of the Terr., Vol. i, 1875, pp. 267–361, Pl. xix–xxi.
——Report upon the insects collected by P. R. Uhler during the
exploration of 1875, including monographs of the families Cynidæ and
Saldæ, and the Hemiptera collected by A. S. Packard, jr., M. D. <U. S.
Geolog. and Geogr. Survey, Bulletin, Vol. iii, No. 2, 1877, pp. 355–475.
Townend Glover.—Report of the Entomologist. <Report of the Commissioner
of Agriculture for the year 1877, pp. 17–46.
A popular treatise on the Homoptera, with illustrations.
A. H. Haliday.—An Epitome of the British genera in the Order
Thysanoptera, with indications of a few of the species. <Entomol. Mag.,
Vol. iii, 1836, pp. 439–451.
H. Loew and C. R. Osten-Sacken.—Monographs of the Diptera of North
America. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.) 4 parts. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution, 1862–'72.
The several monographs will be found enumerated under the
respective families.
H. Loew.—Diptera Americæ septentrionalis indigena. 2 parts. Berlin,
1861–'72. (Originally published in 10 centuriæ in the Berliner Entomol.
Zeitschrift.)
Descriptions of 1,000 North American Diptera, but without synoptic
arrangement.
C. R. Osten-Sacken.—Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and
species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and
especially from California. <Bull. U. S. Geolog. and Geogr. Survey of
the Territories, Vol. iii, 1877, pp. 189–354.
F. Brauer.—Die Zweiflügler des Kaiserlichen Museums zu Wien. i–iii.
Wien, 1880–'83.
Important contributions to the classification of the Diptera.
Henri de Saussure.—Orthoptera nova Americana (Diagnoses
præliminares). Series i–iii. <Revue et Mag. de Zool., 1859–'61.
Contains synoptical tables of species, besides descriptions of
numerous North American Orthoptera.
Samuel H. Scudder.—Materials for a monograph of the North American
Orthoptera. <Boston Journal of Nat. Hist., Vol. vii, 1862, pp. 409–480.
Contains synoptical tables and a review of the system used for
classification.
——Remarks upon the arrangement of the families of Orthoptera. <Proc.
Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. xii, 1868–'69; also separate under the
title: Entomological Notes, Vol. ii, pp. 7–14.
——Synoptical tables for determining North American insects.
Orthoptera. <Psyche, Vol. i, 1876, pp. 169–171.
Synopsis of families; also list of useful works in the study of
North American Orthoptera.