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eminent Dutch Entomologist, Snellen Van Vollenhoven (not 

 to be confounded with P. C. T. Snellen, whom we are about to 

 mention), in i860. 



The most important publications on the Lepidoptcra of 

 Holland are those by Mynheer P. C. T. Snellen, of Rotterdam. 

 They consist of three large octavo volumes, with a few plates 

 of details, and are entiiled " De Vlinders van Nederland : 

 Macro-Lepidoptera" (Hague, 1867) and " De Vlinders van 

 Nederland: Micro - Lepidoptera " (2 vols. Leyden^ 1882; 

 Cf. autea^ p. xxxih.). 



Belgium. 



There is a work by Dubois, " Les Lepidopteres de la 

 Belgique," containing coloured drawings of the transforma- 

 tion of Belgian Macro-Lepidoptera^ which appeared in parts, 

 from 1859 to 1884, and forms three volumes, octavo. 



Genua ny, Switzerland^ and Austria. 



It will be most convenient to group these countries 

 together. 



One of the most important of the early local European Faunae 

 which we possess is Scopoli's "Entomologia Carniolica" 

 (Vindobonae, 1763), a work contemporaneous with Linnaeus, 

 and of such consequence that even those who date our 

 nomenclature from the twelfth edition of Linnceus's " Systema " 

 make a special exception in the case of so prominent a 

 co-worker \mi\\ Linnaeus and I\ibricius, who continually refer to 

 him. A series of plates was prepared to illustrate this book, 

 and though they were never published, many copies of the 

 book are in existence with these illustrations. Scopoli published 

 other works which contain Lepidoptera, but nothing of equal 

 value and importance to his '' Entomologia Carniolica." 



