1885.] 183 



DuncaD, never having, to my knowledge, even seen him, and certainly 

 he never saw one of the insects, which were published for the first 

 time in the Naturalist's Library from my drawings. With the view 

 of giving to some portion of the other Entomological Volumes an 

 amount of originality, which was wanting in the majority of the 

 Volumes of the Work, I was applied to in the years 1840 and 1841 

 to furnish drawings of new and beautiful species of insects for the 

 Introductory Volume, the Volume on Exotic Moths, and some exotic 

 bees for the Volume on " Honey and other Bees." 



These additional species were selected by myself from the col- 

 lection of the Eev. F. W. Hope and my own, and the drawings, with 

 a popular description of each species (not, however, accompanied 

 by a technical Latin character) were forwarded by me to Edinburgh, 

 but, unfortunately, I never saw a proof either of the plates which 

 contained my figures or of the text in which my descriptions were 

 introduced by Mr. Duncan, without any indication of what was mine 

 or what his own comments. 



The Inteoduction" to Entomology, Vol. I, commences with an 

 " Advertisement " (as was also the case throughout the work) con- 

 taining a notice of forthcoming Volumes and notes of others already 

 published. In this Advertisement we read, in reference to the then 

 unpublished Volume on Exotic Moths, that " drawings of new and 

 splendid species of moths are now in preparation by Mr. Westwood, 

 to whose elegant pencil we have likewise, as will be seen, been largely 

 indebted on the present occasion in the Volume which this accom- 

 panies." 



My share in the 1st Volume was as follows : 



Plate VI was occupied by structural outlines of the chief 

 'characters of the Order Orthoptera including a figure of " AcJiefa 

 arachnoides" described on page 248, where we are informed " Mr. 

 Westwood has given it the specific name of arachnoides'' 



Plate IXcontained my figure of '' Deroplatys disiccata,'' properly 

 described in the text, p. 234, as " Mantis {Deroplatys) desiccata,We8t." 



Plate XIV contained my figure of " Anostostoma Austral asice,'' 

 stated (in p. 255) to have been first described by Mr. Grey (George 

 Eobert Gr^y), in Mag. Nat. His., N. Ser., I, 143. 



Plate XVIII contained figures of the leading characters of the 



■ Heteropterous Reoniptera (described on p. 269), and of the Homoptera 



jl.(on p. 270), with a figure of " Folyneura ducalis'' described in the 



