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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 245
SECTION XV.
Of the Infeéts and Teftaceous Animals of Lapland.
INCE Dr. Quenzel’s travels in Lapland, this country has fur-
nifhed many interefting objects to the entomologifts and col-
le&tors of infeé&ts throughout Europe. In the time of Linnzus—
there was not a fingle infect of the clafs /epidoptera known as in-
digenous in Lapland; and it is almoft incomprehenfible how the
great phalena and papilios, that hunt the nectaries of thofe flowers
which embellifh thefe northern diftri€ts, could have efcaped the
fearching eye of fo attentive a naturalift. Dr. Quenzel difcovered
feveral fpecies, and brought with him a great number of fpeci-
mens, which were foon fcattered over Germany, and all coun=
tries where thefe objects are efteemed and collected. It 1s-an un~
fortunate circumftance, however, that collections of that kind are
often confidered as mere articles of fhow; and that the entomolo-
gifts are frequently nothing more than walking inventories, that
have their heads filled with a gothic mixture of Greek, Latin,
and barbarous names.
Entomology, when ftudied by a philofophical obferver, may
become a purfuit of great importance to fociety, and lead to dif-
coveries of effential benefit; but while the zeal of entomologitts
confifts
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