[1425] Ibid. §. 7.

[1426] Latreille Gen. Crust. et Ins. iii. 214.

[1427] With respect to Natural Genera he says—"Cavendum tamen ne nimis imitando naturam systematis amittamus filum Ariadneum." Ibid. § 6.

[1428] Fab. Entomolog. Syst. em. et auct. i. Præf. iv.

[1429] Fabricius calls this a chaos, and threatens to prove it, but he never fulfilled his threat. See Fab. Supplem. Præf. i.

[1430] Introd. ad Hist. Nat. 401.

[1431] See N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. x. article Entomologie; and Familles Naturelles du Règne Animal 262—.

[1432] These tables, except the first, are taken from the Familles Naturelles du Règne Animal. As a new edition of M. Le Baron Cuvier's Règne Animal is preparing, M. Latreille will doubtless give in it a still more improved arrangement of the Crustacea, Arachnida, and Insecta.

[1433] Several of the minor groups given in the table he has further resolved before he arrives at his genera.

[1434] Vol. III. p. 348, note[903].