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and lie down for an hovir or two, he returned continually to what 

 was to him the greatest soui'ce of pleasure. The last collecting 

 trip he ever made was to Italy in 1896, when he collected 

 at La Cava and Sorrento. After this he occupied himself 

 mainly with the preparation of the long-desired third edition 

 of the Catalogue, in which Dr. Rebel of Vienna assisted him 

 very materially. When I last visited him, in May 1889, he was 

 deeply interested in this work, and spent many hours in 

 discussing with me the best geographical divisions of those 

 regions in Asia in which sucli an immense amount of new 

 Lepidoptera have been collected during the last twenty years. 

 As he had not studied the physical geographyof these mountains, 

 he was most anxious to get my views on these questions, and 

 begged me to lend him the maps which I had procured in 

 Russia. He also borrowed a number of the type-specimens 

 from the Grum-Grishmailo collection which I had then recently 

 acquired, and returned them to me with very concise and 

 vigorously-worded notes as to their specific distinction. He 

 sent me the proofs of that part of the Catalogue whicli includes 

 the Rhopalocera to revise, and though he did not accept tlie 

 whole of the additions and ci-iticisms which I made, it was 

 clear to me that though he felt a failing of power he was as 

 anxious as ever to ensure accuracy and completeness, and I 

 hope that the preparation of this catalogue is sufficiently 

 advanced to enable Dr. Rebel to complete it. 



I must now say a few words on a phase of Dr. Staudinger's 

 work which has been somewhat misjudged by those who did 

 not know him well. Though he was a very keen man of 

 business, and at times to some extent seemed to allow the 

 commercial value of his specimens to influence his judgment in 

 naming and describing local varieties of the wide-ranging species 

 of Palfearctic Lepidoptera, he was always most ready to com- 

 municate his unrivalled knowledge to those whom he considered 

 as scientific workers and not competitors in his business. Of 

 late years at least he often expressed a strong desire to have 

 nothing to do with that part of his work, which devolved on 

 his son-in-law Herr Bang-haas. He would take any amount 

 of time and trouble in comparing specimens with a view 

 to their correct identification an,d nomenclature, and often 



