Xll LIST OF AUTHORS 



Soc. N. H. of Moscow. Is the author of numerous works, 

 of which the chief are " L'Histoire Naturelle cles Insectes 

 Lepidopteres ; Species general des Lepidopteres (Suites 

 a Buffon)" (1836), and "Genera et Index Methodicus 

 Europ. Lepidop." (1840). Dr. Boisduval confines his 

 attention to Lepidoptera, of which he possesses one of 

 the finest collections in existence: his works are cha- 

 racterized by a very extensive knowledge of species, but 

 also by the want of attention to those minute structural 

 details which the present state of science demands^ his 

 characters being almost always taken from the external 

 parts of the insects. 



BORKHAUSEN, Moritz Balthasar, born in 1732, held various 

 offices under the government of Hesse Darmstadt, and 

 was finally Kammerrath in the Oberforst-Collegium. 

 In conjunction with Brahm, he edited the " Rheinisches 

 Magazin zur Erweiterung der Naturkunde " (begun in 

 1793), and published in that periodical "Entom. Be- 

 merk. und Berichtigungen," " Ornithologie von Ober- 

 Hessen," &c. He was also author of a " Versuch einer 

 Erklarung der zoologischen Terminologie " (1790), and 

 of "Deutsche Fauna " (1797) : his chief work on Lepi- 

 doptera is "Naturgesch. der Europ. Schmetterlinge, 

 nach syst. Ordnung " (Frankfort, 5 vols., 1788-94), a 

 work comprehensive and complete, valuable for its suc- 

 cinct descriptions, and the emendation of the synonymy 

 of the species. Borkhausen died in 1807. 



Bosc, Louis Augustine Guillaume Bosc (ci-devant d' Antic), 

 born in Paris, in 1759; was originally intended for the 

 army, but obtained employment in the French Post- 

 Office : his collection of insects is said to have contained 

 6000 species. Being driven from the capital by the 

 Revolution of 1 793, he studied Natural History in various 

 parts of Europe and America; was the author of the 

 Articles on "Erpetologie " in the " Nouveau Diet. d'Hist. 

 Naturelle," of " Hist. Nat. des Insectes " (continuation 

 of Buffon), " Hist. Nat. des Coquilles " (1801), " Hist. 

 Nat. des Vers " (1802), " Hist. Nat. des Crusta 9 es " 

 (1802), &c. Bosc died in 1828 : after his decease, his 

 collection was obtained by the Administration of the 

 Jardin des Plantes. 



BOUCHK, P. F., a market-gardener near Berlin, author of 

 "Naturgesch. der schadlicheii und niitzlichen Garten- 

 Insekten" (Berlin, 1833), "Naturgesch. der Insekten " 

 (1834) ; and of " Beitrage zur Insektenkunde," " Be- 

 merk. iiber die Larven der zweifliigligen Insekten," 



