82 Mr. T. V. Wollaston's Revision of British Atomaria. 



15. mesomelas, Hbst 



dimUUaia, (Mslim), Steph. 

 1 G. basalis, Erich. 



17. munda, Erich. 



18. nigripennis, Pk. 



19. Hislopi, Woll. 



20. apicaUs, Erich. 



21. analis (Schiip.), Erich. 



testacea, Steph, 

 atra, Steph. 



22. ruficornis, (Mshm), Steph. 



terminata, Com. 

 dorsalis, Steph. 



23. versicolor, Erich. 



IX. On the Recent Progress of Micro-Lepidopterology on 

 the Continent. By H, T. Stainton, Esq. 



[Read July 7th, 1856.] 



Twenty-four years have now elapsed since the publication of 

 Treitschke's first volume on the Tinees. This was the first gene- 

 ral descriptive work treating of that group of Lcpidoptera that 

 had appeared on the Continent since the time of Fabricius. It 

 was a work which at once rendered the figures of Hiibner far 

 more generally serviceable, for the frequently misnamed figures 

 of Hiibner were here referred to their correct names, and their 

 histories and habits were given. Sometimes histories were applied 

 to the wrong species, and many species were h.indled in a manner 

 to create confusion. But whatever may be the faults of Treitschke's 

 work, it was a vast step, and it contributed very materially to the 

 production of Stephens's fourth volume of his " Illustrations," 

 which appeared in 1834 and 1835. 



When a general work on a group of insects has appeared, each 

 Entomologist seeks there for the name of any species he may 

 chance to meet with ; and if he happens to find it there, well and 

 good, but if not he probably describes it in some scientific journal 

 or in the transactions of some learned society : but were the general 

 work non-existent, he would feel utterly disheartened at the 



