492 Miscellaneous. 



On the second page of manuscript is the following : — 

 "Dec"-. 24, 1799. 



" Mr. Olivier's Account of Mr. Hubners work up to the above 

 time : 



" Shinges [sic] 17 plates 1 



Pyralides ....... 21 Do. I with Letter Press. 



Tinite 37 Do. J 



Geometrae 59 Do. \ t .,. > . 



m , . .in T-i Letter press not yet 



Tortrices 29 Do. ^ ^ •' 



T- I o -n I Published. 



Larva 12 Do. 



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

 Dr. Latham have only the Following : 



Geometrae 20 plates. 



Sphinges 15 Do. 



Pyralides 20 



Tortrices 16 



Tinia 30 



Total .... 101 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-Schiiffer in ' Corr.-Blatt Eegensburg,' 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 comphte 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 I am at present 

 prepared to go. The date of the ' Zeifer ' wiU 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 

 Animalium.' C. Davies Sherboen. 



Part II. 



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

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

 !N'o. 598). This copy came from the library of E. Bellier de la 

 Chavio-nerie and was accompanied by MS. indexes and coarse blue 

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



