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I S04. They include all the Butterflies except the richeii Rustici 

 {^UrbicolcQ of Linnteus, or the modern HespcriidcE), and the 

 work would probably have been continued further but for the 

 death of Herbst in 1807. The arrangement adopted is a 

 modification of the systems of Linnceus and Fabricius. The 

 book is in octavo, but the 144 coloured plates are in oblong 

 quarto. The book is, however, rarely quoted, for it contains 

 scarcely any new matter, the figures being almost all copied from 

 the works of Drury, Cramer, Esper, and other authors, collated 

 and rearranged. 



Another work of a similar character which demands a passing 

 notice here is Esper's "Auslandischen Schmetterlinge," published 

 at Erlangen, in parts, between 1785 and 1798. a^^^ republished 

 by Charpentier in 1830 with two additional plates, raising the 

 total number to 35 plates. Esper's work contains little original 

 matter, and consists of figures of Butterflies (chiefly Equites in 

 the Linncean sense) copied from Cramer and other authors. 

 Charpentier's additional plates illustrate Moths. 



In the years 1819 and 1823 appeared two parts of the great 

 French work, the" Encyclopedic Methodique," forming vol.ix.of 

 the series on "Histoire Naturelle : Entomologie." These consist 

 exclusively of the article "Papillon," by Latreille and Godart, 

 and form a comprehensive monograph of the Butterflies known 

 at the period. The articles on Lepidoptera published in other 

 volumes of the " Encyclopedic Methodique," as well as a 

 volume of plates, in which many Lepidoptera are rei)resented, 

 are now of comparatively little value ; but vol. ix. will always 

 hold its place as an entomological classic, 



Lucas' "Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres (exoticpies) 

 etrangers," of which there are two editions (1835 and 1845), 

 and Thon's " Naturgeschichte der in- und auslandischen 

 Schmetterlinge" (Eisenach, 1837) are illustrated semi-popular 

 books of secondary importance. 



