AND NOMENCLATORS. XXXIX 



1842-47 (published at Jena), and in the Stettin Entom. 

 Zeitung (1850). 



SCHRANK, Franciscus von Paula, author of "Beytrage zur Na- 

 turgeschichte " (Augsburg, 1776), " Fauna Boica, durch- 

 gedachte Geschichte der in Baiern einheimischen und 

 zahmen Thiere " (Nuremberg, 3 vols., 1798-1803), 

 "Enumeratio Ins. Austrise indig." (Aug. Vindel. 1781), 

 and of papers in Fuessli's Mag., Der Naturforscher, 

 N. Abh. Baierisch. Akad., &c. Schrank attained to an ex- 

 treme old age, and was still living at Munich in 1835. 



SCOPOLT, Giovanni Antonio, born in 1725 at Cavalese in the 

 Tyrol, studied at Innspruck, and took the degree of 

 M.D. ; practised as a physician at Idria, and was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Mineralogy at that place, and sub- 

 sequently at Chemnitz : in 1777 he was promoted to 

 the Professorship of Botany and Chemistry at Pavia, and 

 died in 1 788. His principal works are " Flora Carnio- 

 lica" (Vienna, 1762), "Entomologia Carniolica, exhi- 

 bens Ins. Carniolise indig. methodo Linnseana distrib." 

 (Vienna, 1763), "Principia Mineralogise " (Prague, 

 1772), " Crystallographia Hungarica" (1776), " Fun- 

 damenta Chemise" (1777), and "Delicise Florae et 

 Fauii33 Insubricse " (Pavia, 1786-88). 



SCOTT, John, of Stockton- on-Tees, a collector of British 

 Lepidoptera and Coleoptera : in The Zoologist, and 

 Entomologist's Annual. 



SIRCOM, J., late of Bath : in The Zoologist. 



SODOFFSKY, C. H. G., author of " Lepidoptera Livoniee ob- 

 servata," some descriptions of new Micro-lepidoptera, 

 and of " Etymologische Untersuchungen iiber die Gat- 

 tungsnamen der Schmett.," all published in the Bull. 

 Nat. Moscou. The last-mentioned paper, printed in 

 1837, is an attempt to derive the generic names of the 

 Lepidoptera, and is therefore somewhat similar in its 

 design to the present work, in the preparation of which 

 Sodoffsky's " Researches " have been consulted. 



STAINTON, Henry Tibbatts, of Lewisham, a Lepidopterist, par 

 excellence a Tineist, author of numerous papers in The 

 Zoologist, and Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., and of ' ' A Cata- 

 logue of the British Tineina and Pterophoridae " (1849), 

 "A Supplementary Cat. of Tin. and Pter." (1851), " In- 

 secta Britannica; Lepidoptera, Tineina" (1854), " The 

 Natural History of the Tineina" (assisted by Zeller, 

 Douglas, and Frey, 3 vols. published 1855-58), and of 

 " A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths," the 

 object of which is " to supply in a small compass, and 



