. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 56 Guende, an insect I have fully described in Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, 1872. I .shall, call this stouter species G. Gueneana, and call the G. Desperata of Guen^e and our collec- tions C. Vidua of Abbot and Smith. Resemblances to European forms led Abbot into some mistakes, which have probably not been adequately corrected by Dr. Harris, but wait full collections from the South and detailed comparisons in all stages with the allied forms. Abbot and Smith's has been long our most important work on our butterflies and
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 56 Guende, an insect I have fully described in Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, 1872. I .shall, call this stouter species G. Gueneana, and call the G. Desperata of Guen^e and our collec- tions C. Vidua of Abbot and Smith. Resemblances to European forms led Abbot into some mistakes, which have probably not been adequately corrected by Dr. Harris, but wait full collections from the South and detailed comparisons in all stages with the allied forms. Abbot and Smith's has been long our most important work on our butterflies and moths, small as is the number of species illustrated. This arises from the fact that all stages of the insects are given, and it has become in this respect a model of what an illustrated work on the Lepidoptera should be. It is only recently excelled by the magnificent volumes of Mr. W. H. Edwards on our butterflies. Among our larger and interesting moths first figured by Abbot are the Blind Hawk, Paonias exccecatus; the Brown Eyed Hawk, : the Walnut Hawk, Cressonia juglandis ; the Laurel Hawk, Sphinx kalmice, (Eig. 28.) N^. Fig. 28. After Abbot, the most important work is that of Jacob Hiibner, a German naturalist of Augsburg, who has published a number of works on the Lepidoptera, splendidly illustrating a very large number of species. Scattered in other books on Lepidoptera issued at the close of the last, and beginning of the present century, may be found single North American species. Such are, for instance the works of Stoll, De Beauvais, and Esper. Hiibner's principal works are, the " Sammlung" and the "; The "Sammlung" bears the dates 1806 to 1825; but it seems certain that a few plates were issued at various dates of the last volume, by Geyer, up to 1837, after Hiibner's death. According to a written statement given me by Dr. Herrich-Schseffer, a literary successor of Hiibner, and owner of the original plates, t
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