3744 Insects. 



sait le Catalogue des especes de la Laponie," (Intr. lxxxvii). Of this 

 work, so curtly despatched, it may be observed, that it is a folio vo- 

 lume of 570 pages, closely printed in double columns, and containing 

 carefully drawn up descriptions in Latin of nearly 4000 Lapland in- 

 sects — amongst which are 73 Noctuae, 25 of which are new species, 

 entirely unnoticed, unless by new names, by Guenee — interspersed 

 are remarks upon at least 2000 Swedish species ; — the work was pub- 

 lished in 1840, and in the Preface, dated April, 1839, reference is 

 made to the then recent European works (Parisian among the rest) to 

 December, 1838. And moreover, the work itself is the sole instance 

 in which all the known insects of any country have been described 

 according to modern views, during the present century : and since its 

 conclusion, its indefatigable author has supplied us with a still more 

 complete work on the Scandinavian Diptera, in eleven volumes, 8vo., 

 containing full descriptions of 3388 species ! 



7. The omission of the majority of the synonymes in the Index. 



Reader ! procure Guenee's Noctuelites, and judge for yourself whe- 

 ther I have stated a single point " unfairly " ! 



J. F. Stephens. 



Eltham Cottage, Foxley Koad, Brixton, 

 September 16, 1852. 



P.S. — A concluding question, if not an "unfair" one. In what 

 part of Scotland do Ccenophila subrosea and Agrotis lunigera, Mies. 

 Cat. occur? Guenee says "Angleterre et Ecosse, en Juillet" (i. 333) 

 for the former, and Ecosse (i. 280) for the latter.— J. F. S. 



[Since the proof of this paper was sent to its author, that gifted 

 entomologist has breathed his last : it is therefore published without 

 that revision and careful correction which it would no doubt have re- 

 ceived from his experienced hand. I have never seen a paper from 

 the pen of Mr. Stephens in which this revising process was so essen- 

 tial, since it abounds with assertions as to simple facts which must 

 either have been penned from memory, and without reference to the 

 authorities cited, or the writer's meaning must have been misunder- 

 stood in the printing-room. I allude to such passages as this : — 



" GuenSe. " Stephens. 



"995. Acontia albicollis Fab. 1781, = Acontia Solaris, Schiff. 1776." 



