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Huebner's Tortricids. 



By Prof. C. H. Fernald, State College, Orono, Me. 



The time of publication of some of Hiibner's works has been a mat- 

 ter of no little investigation on the part of entomologists, and many pa- 

 pers have appeared on this subject, in the European Journals. I have 

 thus far interested myself only so far as pertained to the Tortricids, that I 

 might get the most accurate information, in the matter of priority, for 

 my work on the revision of this group. 



Hiibner published in his Sammlung Europaischer Schmetterlinge, 

 forty-six plates containing two hundred and ninety-one colored figures of 

 European Tortricids, and Carl Geyer who continued the work after the 

 death of Hiibner in 1826, published seven plates of Tortricids, contain- 

 ing forty-nine colored figures. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder stated in his historical sketch of the genera of 

 Butterflies, page 98, that Dr. Hagen told him the works of Hiibner were 

 in their original wrappers in the Konigliche Bibliothek in Berlin. Wish- 

 ing to get what help might be obtained from this source, I wrote to my 

 kind friend Mr. O. Budy in Berlin, who went to the Royal Library and 

 examined Hiibner's works for me. He writes that Hiibner's part of the 

 Sammiung is not in the original wrappers, but the continuation of the 

 same by Geyer is still in the wrappers of which there are two. In look- 

 ing over the volumes of Hiibner, Mr. Budy found several prospectuses 

 by Hiibner himself, bound in the last volume. These were carefully 

 copied and sent to me and they furnish some additional evidence bearing 

 on the date of the publication of Hiibners works; but at present I shall 

 mainly make use of what pertains to tne Tortricids. 



The first prospectus is without date but gives a list of Hiibner's 

 works then for sale, and from the Sammlung, only the Pyralids, twenty 

 plates, and the Sphinges, sixteen plates, are offered. The dates of these are 

 there given as 1796, so that whatever may have been the date of this pro- 

 spectus, 1 796 may be regarded as the date of the first twenty plates of the 

 Pyralids and the first sixteen plates of the Sphinges. The statement is 

 also made on this prospectus that the Tortricids and Tineids will appear 

 very soon, therefore it must have been later than 1796, when they were 

 published. 



The second prospectus is dated Augsburg Dec. 21, 1806, and adver- 

 tises four hundred and seventy-five colored plates of the Sammlung, with 

 title page and text, but does not state what the plates are. The third 

 prospectus, dated 1807, advertises four hundred and ninety-seven plates 

 etc. The fourth, dated 1S09 is also of little value for our purpose. It 

 advertises 34 4-5, fifteen plate issues. The fifth prospectus is dated Augs- 



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