viii. 



Green Hair-streak or Holly Butterfly, Small Skipper or Spotless Hog, and the 

 Large Skipper or Cloudy Hog. 



The remaining thirty figured by Petiver, are varities or the other sex of 

 the above. One species, Albin' s Hampstead Eye, is a native of Australia, 

 and must have been introduced by Petiver through a mistake. The additions 

 in his work to the list of British Butterflies are the High Brown Fritillary, 

 Heath Fritillary, Brown Argus, Large Skipper, and Small Skipper. Both 

 Petiver and Eay gave English names to many of the species, some of which 

 have been changed since their time. 



The publications of Petiver have been of essential service to zoology and 

 botany, but they have become scarce, though a second edition of them, 

 entitled "Petiveri Opera," was published in 1764. His museum after his 

 decease, which happened in April, 1718, was purchased by his worthy friend 

 Sir Hans Sloane, for no less than £4,000 ; a great sum in those days, which 

 at once proves the goodness of the Petiverian collection, and the affluence of 

 the Baronet. It eventually went, along with the vast stores of natural pro- 

 ductions amassed by Sir Hans Sloane, to form the basis of that national 

 institution, the British Museum. 



Sir Hans Sloane, iti the year 1725, published the second volume of his 

 " Natural History of Jamaica/' including the insects found in that Island. 



In the year following was published in Holland, one of the most splendid 

 entomological works ever published, by Madame Marie Sibilla Merian, in the 

 " Transformations of the Insects of Surinam/' a large folio volume with 

 finely drawn and highly coloured plates of insects, plants, and reptiles. 



The work which next arrests our attention is that of Eleazar Albin, 

 a painter of no small ability, who in the year 1731, published at London, a 

 "Natural History of English Insects," illustrated with 100 copper-plates, 

 engraven from life; and of which a second edition appeared in 1749, with 

 large notes, and many curious observations by W. Dereham, D.D., Eellow of 

 the Royal Society. This is the first work with coloured illustrations of 

 English insects, and it contains principally, but not exclusively, such lepi- 

 dopterous insects as the author, or his friends, had reared from caterpillars ; 

 exhibiting them picturesquely feeding on their proper plants, and in all 

 phases, or mutations : the whole highly coloured, and accompanied by des- 

 criptions in the English language, but without names. This last I mention 

 as Guenee has unadvisedly given Albin as an author of names. The butter- 

 flies he figures are the Large Cabbage White, Black-veined White, Brim- 

 stone, Ped Admiral, Peacock, Small Tortoise-shell, Brown Hairstreak, Green 

 Hairstreak, Painted Lady, Large Tortoise-shell, Comma, Meadow Brown, 



