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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Note on the Date of Publication of the Works of Jacob Huebner on 

 the Lepidoptera. By C. Davies Sherborn and Louis B. Protjt. 



The elucidation of the dates of publication of Iluebner's works has 

 exercised the injjenuity of many persons. The more valuable papers 

 written on the subject are those of Scudder (Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci. 

 X. 1875, pp. !)l-20:i) and C. H. Fernald (Svo, Amherst, ]\]ass., 190."), 

 16 pp.V Considerable time and trouble have been expended in recent 

 years by J. H. Durrant, Lord Walsingham, Sir George Hampson, 

 Hon. "Walter llothscbild, and others in tliis country, and a mass of 

 manuscript notes has been placed at our disposal by Durrant and 

 others as assistance in a sort of forlorn hope attack on the subject. 

 Although the result has been but sliglit, it seems worth while to 

 briefly sum up our present position regarding these obscure and 

 troublesome publications. "We will take them in order of date. 



1. Beitr. Geschichte Schmett. 2 vols. 8vo. Augsburg, I. (1) 



1786 ; I. (2) 1787 ; I. (3) 1788 ; L (4) 1789 ; IL 1790. 

 fHeinsius, Allgem. Biicher- Lexicon, ii. 1812, p. 445, says 2 vols. 

 1787-1792. Engelmnnn, Bibl. Hist. Nat. 1846, p. 489, and 

 Hageu, Bibl. Entom. 1862, p. 387, both close vol. ii. in 1790.] 



2. Samml. auserL Vogel u. Schmett. Svo. Augsburg, 1793. 

 [(ieyer, Entom. Archiv (Thon's), p. 28, says 1792; Engelraann, 



Bibl. Hist. Nat. 1846, p. 489, says 1793; Wiedmann, Allgem. 

 Verz. Biicher . . . Ostermcsse, 1793, p. 60, says » l-'-S"' Heft, wird 

 fortgesetzt.''] 



3. Samml enrop. Schmett. 4to. Augsburg, 1796-1841. 



For all published up to Dec. 24th, 1799, see Sherborn and Dur- 

 rant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) ii. Dec, 1898, pp. 491-495, here 

 tabulated as : — 



II. Horde (Sphinx), pp. 1-32. 1706. 



V. Horde (Geoin.), pp. 1-24. 1800. 



VI. Horde (Pjral.), pp. 1-16, 1-30. 179i;. 



VII. Horde (Tort.), pp. 1-16. 1796. 



VIII. Horde (Tinea;), pp. 1-70. 1796. 



For the rest : — 



Ziefer, pp. 194. 1805. Different paper is used at Aa, p. 179, and new 

 type (see t in Koctua = a new printer); but 

 C. Geyer, in Huebner, Samml. europ. Schmett. 

 (4 Horde) 1834, p. iv, .savs " Noctuje 1805," so 



xT„„i * 1 o , o^ ^'^ regard all as issued in this year. 



JSaclitrag, pp. 1-8. 1824. 



\Vr-5"'''i''^?.''''^-)'Pp'l-l^'- 1^-0. BvFroelich. 

 IV. Horde (Noct.), pp. 1-16. 1834. By Geyer. 



Plates :— 

 We have little new evidence as to date, so quote them as 



