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LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY. 



We now come to two collective works which were very useful 

 at the time of their publication, but which are now nearly 

 obsolete : J. G. Morris's " Catalogue of the Described Lepi- 

 doptera of North America," published as a part of the 

 " Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections " by the Smithsonian 

 Society of Washington, in i860, and a " Synopsis of the 

 Described Lepidcptera of North America. Part i. Diurnal 

 and Crepuscular Lepidoptera^'' which was published in the 

 same series in 1862, but which was not continued. These 

 were followed by Boisduval's " Lepidopteres de la Californie," 

 published in the "Annales de la Societe Entomologique de 

 Belgique," and reprinted separately in 1869. 



Of late years the study of the Lepidoptera of North America 

 has received an enormous extension ; and the catalogues, 

 monographs, and papers published in journals are far too 

 numerous to mention. Some of the principal writers on North 

 American Lepidoptera within the last thirty years have been 

 Beutenmiiller, H. and W. H. Edwards, Fernald, Grote, 

 Lintner, Packard, Riley, Robinson, Scudder, Smith, Strecker, 

 Stretch, and Lord Walsingham ; but some of the most 

 voluminous of these authors, such as A. R. Grote and J. G. 

 Smith, have written chiefly in journals. 



We can here only attempt to notice a few of the largest and 

 most important works. 



Commencing with Butterflies, Mr. W. H. Edwards' 

 "Butterflies of North America," remarkable for its careful 

 studies of life-histories, has been appearing in parts at intervals 

 ever since 1868, and is now in its third volume. Dr. S. H. 

 Scudder's " Butterflies of New England " (3 vols., Cambridge, 

 Mass., 1888 and 1889), is an exceedingly elaborate and exhaus- 

 tive work on a comparatively limited subject, dealing with every 

 aspect of butterfly life (at least, as far as it relates to the 

 locality) in the fullest possible manner. It is amply illustrated 



