492 Miscellaneous. 



On the second page of manuscript is the following : — 

 " Dec r . 24, 1799. 



'•' Mr. Olivier's Account of Mr. Hubuers work up to the above 

 time : 



" Shingea [sic] 17 plates 1 



Pyralides 21 Do. I with Letter Press. 



Tiniaa 37 Do. J 



Geometry 59 Do. ) T . 



Tortrices 29 Do. I ^S"? *™ B \ nofc >' et 



Larva 12 Do. 



Total .... 175 Plates completed, of which I and 

 Dr. Latham have only the Following : 



Geornetrae 20 plates. 



Sphinges 15 Do. 



Pyralides 20 



Tortrices 16 



Tinia 30 



Total .... ]01 Plates received." 



Here we have therefore a definite and careful account of no less 

 than four copies of Hiibner's work before 24th Dec, 1799, a great 

 step in advance ; and this account agrees somewhat closely with the 

 statements of Herrich-Schaffer in ' Corr.-Blatt Regensburg,' 23, 1869, 

 p. 175, and completely with the portion acquired from the British 

 Museum (Bloomsbury). 



Now it is interesting to note that the titles and prefaces of these 

 three portions (2, 6, and 8 Horde) are all dated 1796, while the 

 titlepage of the 5th Horde is dated 1796, but the preface is dated 

 1800. The writer of the MS. had not met with the 5th Horde 

 simply because it had not appeared by Dec. 24, 1799, but did so 

 after 12th Jan., 1800. From these facts it appears highly probable 

 that in this portion from the British Museum (Bloomsbury) we 

 have a complete and entire example of Hiibner's first distribution, 

 and I shall accept it as dating from 1796 and not later. Horde 5 

 I accept as dated 1800, and that is so far as 1 am at present 

 prepared to go. The date of the ' Zeifer ' will require some exami- 

 nation, those of the ' Nachtriige,' "4th and 7th" Horde, do not 

 appear to offer any difficulties. 



With the plates I am not concerned, having given my reasons for 

 rejecting names on plates unaccompanied by letterpress in Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1896, p. 612. I do, however, record them in my 'Index 

 Aniroalium.' C. Davies Sherborn. 



Part II. 



In February 1892 Lord Walsingham purchased a copy of Hiibner's 

 ' Europaischer Schmetterlinge ' from Mr. Quaritch (Rough List 120, 

 No. 598). This copy came from the library of E. Bellier de la 

 Chavignerie and was accompanied by MS. indexes and coarse blue 

 paper covers, the latter giving precise information as to the dates of 



