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CHAPTER XII. 



GEOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY. 



I NOW proceed to give a classified list of the insects mentioned in 

 this volume, indicating synthetically in what portions of Southern 

 Europe they have been observed; the figures in the respective 

 columns indicate the pages where they will be found noticed. 



In the last twenty-five years many changes have taken place in 

 the nomenclature of these insects : to the older students the use of 

 the names in force twenty years ago causes little difficulty; but 

 naturally this is not so with the rising generation of entomologists, 

 and I have therefore added in italics between parentheses the 

 synonymy of those species which are noticed in this volume under 

 names which they do not now bear. 



The letter S. prefixed to the names indicate those species which 

 are peculiarly Southern. Some few species, though otherwise pecu- 

 liarly Southern, also occur in the British Isles ; these are indicated 

 by S.* I believe most of these are species which require to feed up 

 as larvae during the winter and cannot stand the prolonged severe 

 cold of continental Europe. 



Some species otherwise peculiarly Southern turn up again in 

 Hungary ; and many Southern species seem to have their Northern 

 limit at Vienna. 



I have great hopes that the next few years will witness a con- 

 siderable increase of interest in the question of the geographical 

 distribution of these insects. 



A reference to the following Table will show that the South- 

 eastern corner of Europe altogether is omitted ; and this gap is the 

 more inopportune as it would naturally have formed a connecting- 

 link to the insects I have already noticed in the volume on the 

 " Tineina of Syria and Asia Minor." 



Of late years something has indeed been done in collecting Grecian 

 Micro-Lepidoptera, and when at Dresden last summer I saw in 

 Dr. Staudinger's extensive collection a number of very interesting 

 forms from Mount Parnassus and other Grecian localities. 



I am in great hopes that Dr. Staudinger will soon find leisure to 

 publish a detailed notice of them. Since Dr. Staudinger visited 

 Spain in 1857 and 1858, a number of good entomologists have 

 passed away from us who would have gladly perused the promised, 

 but too long withheld, notice of Dr. Staudinger's observations in 

 that country. 



At the present moment Dr. Staudinger perhaps finds himself too 

 much occupied in preparing a second edition of his ' Catalogue of 



