EIBLIOGRAriTY. l6l 



xA.ustralia, Chili, Buenos Aires, &c. ; full lists of all important 

 periodicals are included in the annual volumes of the 

 " Zoological Record," already referred to. 



Books 071 Lepidoptci'a in general,'^ 



The first really important contributions to general Entomology 

 were probably the collections of copper-plates published by 

 Petiver, at the beginning of the last century, for a list of 

 which I must refer to Hagen's " Bibliotheca Entomologica ; " 

 and Ray's " Historia Tnsectorum," edited, after Ray's death, by 

 Lister, in 1710. The last work laid the foundation of the 

 classification of insects, and both Petiver's and Ray's works were 

 much used, and frequently quoted, by Linnceus. 



The actual commencement of our modern system of 

 classification, however, was invented and carried out by 

 Linnaeus, especially in the tenth and twelfth editions of his 

 ''Systema Naturae." I have already sufficiently noticed these 

 works (i., pp. 2, 3 ; iv., pp. xxiv.-xxvi.), and will now confine 

 myself to quoting a single description from Linnasus' "Systema," 

 tenth edition (i., p. 496), in order to illustrate his method. 



Paphia 4. P. Bombyx elinguis flava, alis patulis falcatis 



concoloribus, ocello fenestratis M. L. V. 

 Pet. gaz. t. 29, f. 3. Catcsb. car. 2, p. 91., t. 91. 



Habitat in Guinea. 



Petiver's figure represents a common West African Moth, 

 belonging to the genus Anthercea {anted, p. 97) ; and this must 

 be considered the typical figure, as against a supposed type of 

 Linn?eus, still existing in the remains of Queen Louisa Ulrica's 



* This section includes wodcs treating of both Foreign Butterflies and 

 Moths together ; but works dealing specially with European Lepidoptera 

 will be discussed separately. 



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