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A NOTE ON THE AUTHORSHIP 

 OF THE « HOPE CATALOGUES «, ETC. 



by G.-W. liirknldy. 



In the Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1900, p. 807, M. Distant 

 writes « In the years 1837 and 1842 there were published at Oxford 

 Parts I and II of « A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the Collection of 

 the Rev. F.-W. Uope », which still form part of the well-known 

 (( Hope Collection » in the Oxford Muséum. Part I. bears no name of 

 author, and te descriptions therein hâve very often been ascribed 

 to Ilope, as bis name is appended to the nomenclature. Part II. is 

 staled to bave been written by the late Prof. Westwood, and there 

 is no doubt that he was the author of both, and that conclusion is 

 novv generally followed by entomologists ». 



M. Distant appears to bave overlooked, as I myself also did 

 formerly, the fact that Westwood actually claimed the aulhorship 

 of Part 1. In vol. 2. of the « Introduction to the modem classifica- 

 tion of Insects », on p. 484 (1839?) in the « Bibliogr. Refer. to the 

 Scutelleridœ », the third entry reads as follows : Hope. A Catalogue 

 of Hemiptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, with short 

 Latin characters of the new species (by J.-O. Westwood). 



I would be much obliged for information as to the foUowing : 



1. Are there in existence copies of Westwood's « Introduction » 

 in parts, as published, in the originalcovers? 



2. What is the date of Spinola's « Tavola sinottica ». I hâve only 

 a separate copy (pp. 1-138) and bave never seen the original. Were 

 pp. 1-60 published in 1850, pp. 6M38 in 1852, or ail in 1850, or 

 ail in 1852, and what is the correct pagination? 



3. Are there in existence copies, in parts, as published, of Perty's 

 « Deliciae », and what are the exact dates? 



