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CHAPTER III. 



DE. STAUDINGER. 



" He was about five-and-twenty, a ' doctor philosophies,' and had come to Ice- 

 land to catch gnats. After having caught gnats in Iceland he intended, he said, 

 to spend some years in catching gnats in Spain, the privacy of Spanish gnats, 

 as it appears, not having been hitherto invaded." Lord Duffierin's Letters from 

 High Latitudes, Chapter VII. 



DR. STAUDINGER first visited the South in 1852, when he went to 

 Montpellier, and stayed there from the end of August to the begin- 

 ning of November. 



His next excursion to the South was in 1854, when he visited the 

 Island of Sardinia* from April 10th to October 2nd ; no account of 

 his captures there has ever appeared. In the ' Entomologist's 

 Annual' for 1856, p. 126, I have mentioned that when I visited 

 Dr. Staudinger in Berlin, in May 1855, I received from him " Ge- 

 lechia plebejella and dryadella collected on that occasion, a new 

 Gelechia. intermediate between populdla and scintillella, and a new 

 Coleophora." 



Having in 1856 carried out his project of visiting Iceland, where 

 as it chanced that his visit occurred at the same time as that of 

 Lord Dufferin, the latter embalmed the German entomologist, like a 

 fly in amber, in his amusing ' Letters from High Latitudes/ Dr. 

 Staudinger went in 1857 to Spain, where he remained from February 

 1857 to July 1858. A notice of the 140 new species of Lepidoptera 

 collected on that occasion appeared in the ' Stettiner entomologische 

 Zeitung ' for 1859 ; but the various interesting observations made 

 on other species, which were not new, to this day remain unpub- 

 lished t. 



In 1862 Dr. Staudinger again visited Spain and collected in the 

 neighbourhood of San Ildefonso, in Old Castile, from the llth of 

 April to the llth of August. 



In 1866 Dr. Staudinger visited Celles-les-bains, in the depart- 

 ment of Ardeche, in France ; the peculiarly southern character of 

 this locality, in respect both of its fauna and flora, had been spe- 

 cially noticed, in 1860, by Monsieur Milliere, at p. 167 (in the 



* In the 'Entomologist's Annual' for 1856, p. 126, this is erroneously men- 

 tioned as Corsica ; it should be Sardinia. 



t The precise localities visited by Dr. Staudinger may be thus arranged 

 chronologically : 



1857, February loth to March 17, Malaga. 



,, March 18th to December 17th, Granada (including the Sierra Nevada). 

 December 18th to January 5th, 1868, Malaga, 



1858, January 6th to July 2nd, Chiclana (in the province of Cadiz). 



