i62 Lloyd's natural history. 



collection ai Stockholm,* which belongs to A. rumphit^ 

 Felder, a moth found in Amboina. As Linnceus, judging from 

 his remarks in three successive works, apparently had three or 

 four specimens of different species before him, which he 

 confounded under the name of Bombyx paphia^ I cannot 

 attach any importance whatever to so very doubtful a " type." 

 J. C. Fabricius was a native of Schleswig, and a pupil of 

 Linnaeus, who attached him.self particularly to the study of 

 insects; and Linnaeus is reported to have said of him, "when 

 I see Fabricius with an insect, I take off my hat." His 

 autobiography, edited by the late Rev. F. W. Hope, will be 

 found in vol. 4 of the first series of the "Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society of London." When a young man, he 

 travelled much, and afterwards became a Professor at Kiel. He 

 still continued to travel ; and a considerable portion of his life 

 was spent in England, where he was intimate with Banks, 

 Solander, and other naturalists of the day. The types of 

 most of the insects which he described from Sir Joseph Banks' 

 collection are fortunately still preserved in the British Museum."]* 

 The principal works which he published on insects (in which 

 Lepidoptera are included), are as follows : — " Systema Entomo- 

 logiae " (1775, when it was still possible to describe all the 

 known insects in a single 8vo. volume of less than 900 pages !) ; 

 " Genera Insectorum " (1777) ; "Species Insectorum "(two vols., 

 1781); "Mantissa Insectorum " (two vols., 1787); "Entomo- 

 logia Systematica" (four vols., 1 792-1 794, and supplement, 

 1798), and his unfinished "Systema Glossatorum " (vide vol. i. 

 pp. 6, 7). 



* A critical resu7nS of this collection was published by Professor 

 Aurivillius in the Swedish ' Ilandlingar" in 1882. 



t Cf. Butler's " Catalogue k f Diurnal Lepidoptera^ described by 

 Fabricius, in the Collection of the British Museum " : published by order 

 of the Trustees in 1869 ; with tliree plates. 



