Miscellaneous. 491 



Finches are said to feed their youn^ upon insects, which is, in a 

 measure, true. The species of Fringilla, Passer, and Enheriza even 

 give soft caterpillars and spiders to their j'ounj^ as soon as they 

 become feathered ; but the Fringilline method of feeding is from tin 

 crop, and it is to a certain extent carried on even after the young 

 leave the nest. A. G. B. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



On the Dates of Jacoh Huhners ' Sammlung europdischer Schmetter- 

 linge." — Part I. By C. Davies Sherborit. Part II. By Jxo. 

 Hartlei Durrant. 



Part I. 



Among some odd parts and numbers of different publications which 

 were some years ago transferred as duplicates from the Library of 

 the Bi'itish Museum, Bloomsbury, to the Library of the British 

 Museum (Natural History), occurs a portion of Hiibner's ' European 

 Butterflies ' of great interest and value. This comprises : — 



Zweyte Horde. — Sign, h, c, d (p. 32), and 2 unlettered signatures, 



Title, and the 2 Yerzeichnisse (12 pp.)- Total 44 pp. 

 Secliste Horde. — Sign, a, h; a, b, c, d (p. 32), and 1 unlettered 



signature, Title &c. (4 pp.). Total 36 pp. 

 Achte Horde. — Sign, b, c, d, e, f, g, 7i, i, Jc (p. 80), and 1 unlettered 



signature (a) (4 pp.). Total 84 pp. 

 Plates 1-60 of Geometers [figs. 1-312]. 

 „ 1-16 of Sphinges [figs. 1-78]. 

 „ 1-34 of TinefE [figs. 1-237]. 

 „ 1-16 of Tortrices [figs. 1-104]. 

 „ 1-20 of Pyralides [figs. 1-134]. 



Pinned on to the titlepage of " Sechste Horde," with an old pin 

 with the twisted wire head, is a manuscript of two quarto pages, 

 in a handwriting I cannot identify, containing the following 

 information : — 



" Mr. Erancillon has got only the Letter Press of Mr. Jacob 

 Hubner's work on Insects from Page 1 Pyralides Pseudogeometrae, 

 No. 1 Pyralis Emortualis — To page 30 — No. 26 Pyralis Kufimi- 

 tralis with an Index to this part from Pseudogeometrae page 1-7 to 

 Verticalis 22 D 3, and in another part of Letter press from page 4 

 Pyralides Pseudogeometrae — Pyralides Ambigui — to page 15 No. 48 

 Pyralis Farinalis. 



" This is all my Friend and myself have got of the Letter Press, 

 " The following is the Account of all the plates I have got, Yiz^ 

 "Tiniae No. 1 Graminella toNo.209Struthionipenes in all 30 plates. 

 Tortrices No. 1-2 Pariana to No. 104 Nebulana in all . 16 plates. 

 Pyralides No. 1 Emortualis to No. 134 Eadiatalis in all 20 plates. 

 Sphinges No. 1 Chimera to No. 74 Populi in all ... . 15 plates. 

 Geometrse No. 1 Smaragdaria to No.98Eemutaria in all 18 plates. 



Plate 19 and 20 is wanting. 

 Geometrse No. Ill Rubicaria to No. 120 Piniaria in all . .2 plates." 



