4 [June, 



pen. — 1^ His notes to the Lepidoptcrological Fauna of Lievland and 

 Curland, by Madame Lienig. These notes contain a valuable mine of 

 observations, especially amongst the Geomeiridoe and the Micro- 

 Lepidoptera. 2^ A treatise on the knot-horned PhycidcB. 



During the eight years which had elapsed since his first appearance 

 as an author, numerous smaller papers had appeared, either in the 

 " Isis," or in the organ of the then newly-founded Entomological 

 Society at Stettin, the '' Stettiner entomologische Zeitung." This 

 Society, in 1846, commenced an important new work, the " Linnaea 

 Entomologica," for the reception of more extensive Monographs, 

 which were in their nature rather too bulky to appear in the "Zeitung," 

 which at that time, and for many years afterwards, was issiied in 

 monthly numbers. 



The fii'st volume of the " Linnjea Entomologica " contained two 

 elaborate papers by Zeller, on Lithocolletis and on Eudorea, the two 

 together forming nearly one-third of the volume ; each was illustrated 

 by a Plate, and these Plates appealing at once to the eyes of those who 

 were still ignorant of the German language, gave an impulse to its 

 study among the Entomologists of other countries, the beneficial 

 influence of which it seems impossible to exaggerate. 



Another result of the publication of the "Linnaea Entomologica" 

 was that it led to a more extended knowledge amongst other Entomo- 

 logists of Zeller's earlier papers, that had appeared in the "Isis," but 

 which had previously existed too much like a buried treasure. 



The discovery in 1847 of "the attempt at a natural arrangement of 

 the Cramhina and Tineacea,''' which, though published eight years 

 previously, now first became known to English Entomologists, came like 

 a ray of sunlight to those who had hitherto been groping very much 

 in the dark, and had been puzzling and perplexing themselves how 

 tliey were ever to decide whether an insect was a Microsetia or an 

 Amnnrosetia, names which must sound strange to the Entomologists of 

 the present day, but which were once " familiar in our mouths as 

 household words." 



In less than three years from the publication of these Monographs 

 on Lithocolletis and Endorea in the "Linnsea," we find Zeller actively 

 in correspondence with three English entomologists : Stainton, Henry 

 Doubleday, and Douglas. But to recur to the works of the author 

 which followed 1846,before this intercourse with English entomologists 

 began, and which was to be continued in a regular and steady stream 

 to the end of his davs : — 



