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  VIII. 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  collected 
  in 
  Madeira 
  hi/ 
  

   the 
  late 
  T. 
  Vernon 
  Wollaston. 
  By 
  George 
  T. 
  

   Baker, 
  F.L.S. 
  

  

  [Bead 
  December 
  3rd, 
  1890,] 
  

  

  Plate 
  XII. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  year 
  I 
  was 
  much 
  

   interested 
  to 
  see 
  Mrs. 
  Wollaston's 
  collection 
  of 
  Madeiran 
  

   insects, 
  comprising 
  both 
  those 
  taken 
  by 
  herself 
  as 
  also 
  

   many 
  taken 
  in 
  earlier 
  years 
  by 
  her 
  much 
  lamented 
  

   husband. 
  When 
  making 
  another 
  call 
  on 
  my 
  friend 
  at 
  

   Teignmouth, 
  I 
  was 
  very 
  gratified 
  by 
  her 
  generous 
  offer 
  to 
  

   place 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  collection 
  at 
  my 
  disposal, 
  and 
  thus 
  save 
  

   to 
  science 
  a 
  record 
  that 
  would 
  otherwise 
  have 
  perished. 
  

   At 
  present 
  but 
  little 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  of 
  these 
  

   islands, 
  as 
  also 
  of 
  the 
  Cape 
  de 
  Verdes 
  and 
  the 
  Canaries, 
  

   though 
  the 
  latter 
  have 
  recently 
  been 
  attracting 
  more 
  

   attention 
  ; 
  but 
  for 
  years 
  nothing 
  has 
  been 
  written 
  about 
  

   the 
  Madeiras. 
  It 
  appears 
  to 
  me, 
  therefoL-e, 
  that 
  this 
  

   may 
  be 
  a 
  fitting 
  opportunity, 
  after 
  describing 
  and 
  

   cataloguing 
  the 
  species 
  before 
  me, 
  to 
  collate 
  and 
  

   tabulate 
  all 
  that 
  is 
  known 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  of 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  

   Islands, 
  in 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  possible 
  to 
  do 
  so. 
  

  

  The 
  literature 
  on 
  the 
  Lepidoptera 
  of 
  Madeira 
  may 
  be 
  

   said 
  to 
  be 
  comprised 
  in 
  two 
  papers, 
  both 
  published 
  in 
  

   the 
  ' 
  Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  History,' 
  viz., 
  the 
  

   first, 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  T. 
  V. 
  Wollaston, 
  "Brief 
  diagnostic 
  

   characters 
  of 
  undescribed 
  Madeiran 
  Insects," 
  3rd 
  series, 
  

   vol. 
  i. 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Stainton, 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  Lepi- 
  

   doptera 
  collected 
  in 
  Madeira 
  by 
  T. 
  V. 
  Wollaston, 
  Esq., 
  

   with 
  descriptions 
  of 
  some 
  new 
  species," 
  3rd 
  series, 
  

   vol. 
  iii., 
  p. 
  209. 
  These 
  appear 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  entirely 
  

   overlooked 
  by 
  the 
  majority 
  of 
  continental 
  entomologists 
  ; 
  

   even 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger 
  did 
  not 
  know 
  of 
  them 
  until 
  a 
  very 
  

   few 
  years 
  ago. 
  Mr. 
  Stainton's 
  paper, 
  being 
  easy 
  of 
  

   access, 
  will 
  only 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  occasionally, 
  as 
  we 
  come 
  

   to 
  the 
  insects 
  therein 
  described 
  ; 
  but 
  Mr. 
  Wollaston's 
  

  

  TRANS. 
  ENT. 
  SOC. 
  LOND. 
  1891. 
  PART 
  II. 
  (jUNE.) 
  P 
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