298 SPECIES DESCEIBED IN 



Minus affinis A. Swammerdammellce. Differ! tamen capitc magis 

 fulvo ct alis subtilissime reticulatis ; striis vix nudo oculo conspicuis. 

 Postica) cinerere. 



ALUCITA PAYZTJLLELLA, 2. 340. No. 38. 



Alis fulvo-cupreis ; lasi fascia media maculaque apidsjlavo aureis. 



Habitat in agro Pedemontano ; Dr. Allioni. 



Minuta. Antenna breves, nigra3. Caput fulvum. Ala3 anticse 

 fulvo-cuprea3, nitida), basi late, fascia media, maculaque apicis fere 

 transversali aureis. PosticaB fusca3. 



SECTION III. 

 Scopoli's ' Entomologia Carniolica.' 



In the < Stcttiner entomologische Zeitung,' 1855, pp. 233-257, are 

 some critical remarks on the Lepidoptera described by Scopoli, from 

 the pen of Professor Zeller, who introduces the subject thus : 



" Scopoli is an author who, though held in respect by Lepido- 

 pterists from the first, has been much misunderstood, not because 

 his descriptions have been carelessly made (since they are as good 

 as those of Linne and incomparably better than those of Fabricius), 

 but because aids to their interpretation were wanting, which were 

 possessed by other writers, such as the works of their pupils, the 

 presence of their collections, figures, references, &c., which relieve 

 or remove difficulties. 



" With reference to the figures which Scopoli proposed to publish 

 with his work, Dr. Hagen has furnished a detailed notice in the 

 ' Entomolog. Zeitung,' 1854, p. 81." [It appears that Scopoli, dis- 

 satisfied with the execution of the plates by the engraver, aban- 

 doned the idea of publishing them. Though forty-three plates were 

 executed they were never on sale, and few copies of the work with 

 the plates are in existence.] " This notice of Hagen's has been the 

 cause of my obtaining from Herr v. Heyden, who in his rich library 

 possesses one of the few copies of the ' Entomologia Carniolica' with 

 plates, and who seizes with the greatest liberality every opportunity 

 of furthering science, the use of his copy in order to work out 

 thoroughly the Lepidoptera of Scopoli, a labour which I readily 

 undertook. 



" The figures of the Lepidoptera in the ' Entomologia Carniolica ' 

 are as a whole bad. As may be easily conceived, the large varie- 

 gated species, which could not be misrepresented, are easily recog- 

 nized ; but, for the determination of such species, Scopoli's descrip- 

 tions amply sufficed. The small species are precisely those which 

 should have been well represented ; and for the most part they are 

 so badly done that it is quite evident why Scopoli forbore to pub- 

 lish the plates. Yet they are not altogether useless, since by the 

 general form, direction of the markings, or other circumstances, 

 they may sometimes lead to the recognition of the species. It is 

 true I have not in all cases arrived at a satisfactory result ; but I 



