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near London, and published a short Account, with De- 

 scriptions, of some Rare British Moths, in the old Entom. 

 Soc. Trans, for the year 1812. 



HAWORTH, Adrian Hardy, of Cottingham, near Hull, after- 

 wards of Little Chelsea, wrote papers in the Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. (1812), and Phil. Mag., but is best known as 

 the author of " Lepidoptera Britannica, sistens diges- 

 tionem novam Insectorum Lepid. quse in Magna Bri- 

 tannia reperiuntur " (London, 1803-27, 4 vols.), which 

 has been described as " a monograph the most com- 

 plete, most learned, and most useful, ever published on 

 the Entomology of Britain, and one which will long 

 remain an invaluable treasure to the Lepidopterist. The 

 sterling good qualities of Haworth are 1st, that he 

 described from Nature ; and 2nd, that he described well." 

 His collections of insects of all orders, British and 

 foreign, were, after his death, sold by auction, the sale 

 occupying many days; many of the typical specimens 

 described in the " Lep. Brit." were purchased by, and 

 incorporated with the collection of, J. F. Stephens, 

 and are now in the British Museum. Others were pur- 

 chased by the Entomological Society ; and others are pre- 

 served in the Hopeian Collection at Oxford. Haworth 

 was also known as a distinguished botanist : his Memoirs 

 on Mesembryanthemum and on Bulbous Plants are 

 highly appreciated, and led to a correspondence with 

 many eminent foreign botanists. Of these plants he 

 possessed a large collection in a living state. In his 

 later years, when a great impulse to classification was 

 given by the works of MacLeay, Swainson, Vigors, &c., 

 he adopted binarianism as the groundwork of all classifi- 

 cation, and published numerous Memoirs on the subject 

 in Taylor's Annals. 



HERRICH-SCHAFFER, G. A. W., Dr. Med. of Ratisbon, author 

 of e ' De Generatione Insectorum, partibusque ei inservi- 

 entibus" (Ratisbon, 1821), ( ' Nomenclator Entomologi- 

 cus " (1835), parts of the " Topogr. von JR/egensburg " von 

 Fiirnrohr, "Die wanzenartigen Insecten" (Nuremberg, 

 1840, 6 vols.), and of the " Systematische Bearbeitung 

 der Schmett. von Europa, zugleich als Text, Revision, 

 und Supplement zu Jakob Hiibner's Sammlung Europ. 

 Schmett.," the volumes of which have appeared at inter- 

 vals from 1843-56 : in them all the genera are charac- 

 terized, and all the species hitherto detected in Europe 

 are described, with copious remarks on their habits, food, 

 times of appearance, and localities, the whole forming a 



