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Northern Europe, and angmented with additional woodcuts. 

 I have also seen French and Italian works illustrated by Berge's 

 plates, but in these the letterpress is simply written up to 

 (the plates, and is of little or no value. Another German 

 popular work of somewhat similar character to Berge's, but 

 less comprehensive, is Korb's ^^ Schmetterlinge Mittel-Europa's " 

 (Nuremberg, n. d.), of which an English adaptation by Mr. 

 A. ^^^ Kappel and Dr. W. Egmont Kirby, was published in 

 1895, under the title of "British and European Butterflies 

 and Moths." 



The best recent German popular works on European 

 Macro-Lepidoptera and their larvce, are those published by 

 Hofmann a year or two ago, and in these all the attainable 

 species are figured. 



The most complete catalogue of European Lepidoplera is, at 

 present, Staudinger and Wocke's " Catalog der Lepidopteren 

 des Europiiischen Faunengebiets." Two editions have 

 appeared, in 1861 and 187 1, and Entomologists are now 

 anxiously waiting for a third, on which Dr. Staudinger is under- 

 stood to have been working for some years. His part of the 

 work (the Macro-Lepidoptera) is much more complete and 

 accurate than Dr. Wocke's (the Micro-Lepidoptera). This 

 work was originally designed on the lines of Heydenreich's 

 " Verzeichniss der Europaischen Schmetterlinge," of which 

 several editions appeared between 1843 and 1851. 



The most important contributions to the life-history of 

 European Lepidopttra made of late years, are contained in 

 Milli^re's " Iconographie et Lepidopteres inddits," published 

 in 1874 in three large octavo volumes. These successive 

 papers on new and rare Lepidoptera and their transformations 

 began to appear as early as 1858, in the " Annales de la 

 Societe Linneenne de Lyon," and Milliere carried on his 

 researches at Cannes for many years, the three volumes men- 

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