LIST OF AUTHOKS AND NOMENCLATORS 



WHOSE NAMES AEE ADOPTED IN THE CATALOGUE. 



BECHSTEIN, Johann Matthias, born in 1757, at Waltershausen, 

 in Gotha, where he originated a school of natural 

 history ; he afterwards removed to the Court of the 

 Duke of Saxe-Meiiiingen, and presided over an esta- 

 blishment for the advancement of natural history and 

 hunting. He died in 1810. Bechstein was the author 

 of " Naturgeschichte der in- uiid auslandischen Insecten " 

 (Nuremberg, 1793), "Naturgesch. der schadlichen Wald- 

 insecten" (1798), "Naturgesch. aller schadl. Forstin- 

 secten" (Leipsic, 1803-5, in conjunction with Scharfen- 

 berg), and of many other works on almost every branch of 

 Zoology. 



BEDELL, George, of London, an assiduous collector of British 

 Lepidoptera; with the exception of some communica- 

 tions to " The Zoologist," is not known as an author. 



BENTLEY, William, was a working optician in London, a 

 most persevering and successful collector of British 

 Lepidoptera, in conjunction with Mr. Chant ; was com- 

 pelled from ill-health to give up the pursuit, and his 

 collection is now in the possession of Mr. Edwin Shep- 

 herd (Sec. Entom. Soc. Lond.). Bentley has written 

 little ; but one or two papers by him will be found in 

 the early volumes of " The Zoologist." 



BJERKANDER, Claudius, born in 1735, was Pastor of Gref- 

 back, in Westrogothland, Sweden, and died in 1795. 

 In the " Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar " 

 are several papers by this author, on Botany, on various 

 destructive larvae, and containing Calendars of Insects 

 and descriptions of new species. 



BOISDUVAL, Dr. Jean Alphonse, of Paris, born in 1801, edu- 

 cated at the Medical School of Paris, and took his M.D. 

 in 1828, is a Member of the Legion of Honour, of the 

 Entom. Soc. of France and London, and of the Imp. 



