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man ; in Regensbiirg, by Dr. Herrich-SchafFer, and Herrs Hoff- 

 man ; in Frankfort-on-the-Main, by Senator Von Heyden, Herrs 

 Schmid and Miihlig ; and in Freiburg, by Dr. Reutti ; and in 

 Zurich, by He»*r Bremi and Professor Frey : was it wonderful that 

 a section of Entomology, thus enthusiastically cultivated from 

 flat, fenny Finland to Switzerland, with its Alpine lakes, should 

 progress ? — wherever the German language was current, the im- 

 petus given to the study by the writings of the Glogavian Pro- 

 fessor was felt and appreciated. Professor Zeller himself ransacked 

 Sicily ; Italy yielded her spoils to the energetic temperament of 

 Herr Mann and his wife, and the Sardinian Micro-Lepidoptera 

 have still a lively recollection of Dr. Staudinger's visit to their 

 island. Nay, Dr. Wocke penetrated into France, carrying off a 

 new LHhocolletis, which, as though in derision of the French 

 Entomologists, who were not acquainted with it, (and are, perhaps, 

 not yet aware of its eKistence,) he named Parisiella. The 

 Germans appeared to have found their mission was not only 

 to investigate the riches of their own country, but they looked on 

 Italy, Spain and France as foreign countries to be explored ; 

 just as Mr. Wallace goes out to the Brazils and to Borneo and 

 Sumatra, not trusting to the natives of those countries working 

 out the natural histories of the forms of animal and vegetable 

 life by which they are surrounded. 



Dr. Herrich-Schaffer, in the progress of his " Systematische 

 Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa," arrived in 1853 at 

 the fifth volume, which contains the Tineina ; this volume, now 

 completed, consists of SO-i pages of text quarto, with upwards of 

 ninety plates, containing more than 800 coloured figures. Such a 

 work may well be conceived to be a vast storehouse of informa- 

 tion, a sort of dictionary of the groups of insects on which it 

 treats. Containing as it does upwards of eleven hundred species 

 of European Tineina, it is evident that no great amount of detail 

 could be expected in so limited a space. Dr. Herrich-Schaffer, 

 whose labours in other branches of Entomology have prevented 

 his giving his whole attention to the small moths, has produced a 

 volume that will always be useful, and which, on account of the 

 plates, will remain valuable 100 years hence ; but in the system 

 and in the genera, there is much with which those who have 

 worked more exclusively at the group will hardly be disposed to 

 agree, and even in the separation of allied species we miss many 

 nice discriminations that had already been pointed out by others. 



The first systematic work on the group that had appeared in 

 Germany since Treitschke's volumes were published, one sees at 



