18 



One of our Common Butterflies, Epinephele jurtina. 



By Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S {Read May ^%id, 1913.) 



Mr. Hy. J. Tarner read extracts from a lengthy paper intended as 



an illustration of an " antiquarian researcli " into the literature of 



Entomolon-y, to show the growth of our knowledge of a species' and 



its congeners, and the attempts to fix that knowledge by generic, 



specific, and varietal names. The following is merely an indication 



of the sources and some results of the study : — 



1602. Aldrovandus.- -" De animalibus insectis." Bologna. The 

 first figure and reference. Plate 246, fig. 13. 



1634. Thos. Moufet. — " Insectorum sive Miniorurn Animalium 

 Theatrum." London. A rude text figure, recognisable. 

 Part I., Chap. 14, page 103. 



1666. Christopher Merrett. — -"Pinax Kerum Naturalium Britan- 

 nicarum." A crude description on page 198 of this little 

 pocket-book. 



1696. James Petiver. — " Musei Petiveriani Centuria." London. 

 Figures of the two sexes. No. 308 female, no. 309 male. 



1710? Petiver. — " Gazophylacii nature et artis decades 10." 

 London. Plate 5. Golden meadow-eye. Figures male 

 and female, up. and under. (See " Opera.") 



1710. .John Ray (edited Lister). — " Historia Insectorum." Des- 

 cribes the male, no. 16, the female, no. 17, on page 124, 

 and says that one (16) is the male of the other (17) as he 

 "suspects." 



1715. Christian Sepp. — " Beschouwing der Wonderen Gods," vol. 

 i. Figures the "brown sand-eye" female (up. and und.), 

 larva, pupa (suspended from grass-stem), and ovum largely 

 magnified. Plate V., page 29. 



1720. Eleazar Albin. — " Natural History of English Insects." 

 London. A picture book. Four badly-shaped figures and 

 one of a larva, but not of a Satyrid. He shows both 

 sexes, and says that the insects were bred from larv.T 

 which fed on grass. Plate 53. 



1734. Reaumur. — " Memoires pour servir ;\ I'Histoire des Insectes." 

 Placed in his Class III. (two front legs abbreviated, but 

 fully formed). Vol. i., page 270, Plate'Xl. 



1746. Linneus. — " Fauna Suecica," Ed. 1, page 239. Describes 

 the species and calls it mridnn. 



1748? Benjamin Wilkes. — "English Moths and Butterflies." 



