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Lepidopteren," in the third volume of the same publication, pp. 244 — 256, 277 — 

 289, and 290 — 296. In this many new species were described, and fearing that 

 j non-Swiss Entomologists might be inconvenienced if these descriptions were confined 

 to the journal in wliich they had first appeared, the whole paper was reprinted in 

 1 the " Stettiner entomologische Zeitung " for 1871, pp. 101 — 130, the writer wishing, 

 I as he said in his letter to Dr. C A. Dohrn, to reach a more extended circle of 

 ; Entomological readers. 



After three more short pajjers in the Swiss " Mittheilungen," vol. iii, pp. 406, 

 407, one of which was a critical notice of Staudinger and Wocke's Catalogue of 

 Lepidoptera (the newly resuscitated names in which for half our best known species 

 were not at all to Frey's fancy, who looked upon them as an ill-advised step resulting 

 from a fanatical worship of priority), there appeared in the "Stettin entomologische 

 Zeitung " for 1873, pp. 201^ — 224, a joint jjaper by Frey and Boll, describing a 

 number of new species of North American Micros, which had been bred at Ziirich 

 from pupas from North America, which Boll has brought home with liim on his 

 hasty return to Europe in February, 1872. 



Unfortunately, in the hurry of leaving Massachusetts for Switzerland, the 

 mined leaves collected in the neighbourhood of Boston and Cambridge had been 

 hastily packed together, and of many of the novelties bred, it was quite impossible 

 to pronounce with any certainty what had been their respective food-plants. 



The writers of this paper were attacked by Mr. V. T. Chambers, Kentucky 

 " Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science," 1874, p. 193, and charged with " stealing 

 species." This curious application of the " Monroe doctrine " to science elicited a 

 reply to the charge of theft from Professor Frey in the " Stettin, ent. Zeit. " for 

 1875, pp. 352 — 355. And he and Boll, who had then returned to Dallas, in Texas, 

 contributed two more papers on " Tineen aus Texas " to the same journal for 1876, 

 pp. 209—228, and for 1878, pp. 249—279. 



In 1877 Frey contributed an interesting paper on the Lepidoptera of the Albula 

 Pass to the " Jahresbericht der naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubiindens," pp. 

 112 — 150 ; the same subject is also treated in a paper which he i-ead at Basle, printed 

 in the '•' Mittheilungen," iv, pp. 550 — 556. A few years later he had a short notice 

 on the Micro-Lepidoptera of 1879 in the " Jahresbericht der zoologischen Station 

 in Neapel." Professor Frey's greatest Entomological publication, " Die Lepidopteren 

 der Schweiz," a tall 8voof 454 pages, did not appear till 1880, when he had attained 

 the demure age of 58. It treats of the whole of the Swiss Lepidoptera from the 

 Butterflies to the Plumes, giving the habits and localities, and the elevations above 

 the sea-level attained by each species ; but it is not a descriptive work, except that 

 in it there is special mention of any peculiar varieties which are inhabitants of the 

 more alpine regions. 



Those puzzling species and groups (which are very apt to be placed by each 

 systematist in some different position) Sarrotripa revogana, Farias, Hylopliila, and 

 Nola, he places all together at the beginning of the Bonibyces, the genus Nola being 

 included amongst the LithosidcB. The Choreutida (another puzzling group of 

 moths) he places at the beginning of the " Tineen." To this " Lepidopteren der 

 Schweiz " three supplements (" Nachtriige) have appeared, one in 1881, one in 1882, 

 and one in 1884. 



