174 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Lepidopfcra is entitled " Sammlung europaischer Schmettcr- 

 linge," or " Der europaische Schmetterlinge." It was 

 continued and comi)leted, after Hiibner's death, by Geyer and 

 Herrich-SchafTer, and the whole forms eight sections, 

 comprising 790 quarto coloured plates. It was commenced in 

 1793, and only completed in 1841 ; and Herrich-Schaffer 

 afterwards published a supplementary work under the title of 

 " Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa." 

 This work appeared at Regensburg (Ratisbon) in sixty-nine 

 parts, and is complete in six volumes, from 1843 to 1856, and 

 includes 636 coloured, and 36 plain plates. Hiibner, though 

 an excellent and indefatigable artist, was not a literary man, 

 and the letterpress to most of his works is very scanty and 

 incomplete ; Herrich-SchatTcr's, though much compressed, is 

 very useful, but now, of course, out of date. The plates, 

 however, never will be. It is very difficult to obtain a really 

 good copy of Hiibner's great work ; for early copies, coloured 

 by himself, usually want the later additions ; and the colouring 

 of the supplements of later issues, which contain all the newest 

 matter, is not so good. 



There is yet another important work of Hiibner's to be 

 mentioned, his "Geschichte europaischer Schmetterlinge 

 (Raupen)," published at Augsburg, from 1806 to 1818, or later; 

 and including 406 plates of larvre, from which many later 

 authors have drawn freely, even Curtis not hesitating to copy 

 Hiibner's plates when needful. 



Contemporaneously with Hiibner's plates, appeared the 

 standard German work of Ochsenheimer and Treitschke, 

 describing and classifying the species. Ochsenheimer com- 

 menced a work on the Lcpidoptcra of Saxony, and published one 

 volume, including the Butterflies, in 1805, but relinquished it 

 in favour of a more comprehensive work, " Die Schmetterlinge 

 von Europa." The whole forms ten volumes, dating from 1807 



