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SOME UNKNOWN PLATES IN ERNST AND ENGRAMELLE'S "PAPILLONS D'EUROPE PEINTS D'APRES NATURE," 1779-1793

1953; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: Part_1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3366/jsbnh.1953.3.part_1.28

2053-7808

Rodolphe Homberg,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

The first volume of the Papillom d'Europe began to appear in 1779 with Tome I of Papillom du Jour. It was continued with Tome 2 and three Supplements, all dealing with the Diurna, until 1784, and comprises 343 pages of text (with additions), 84 plates numbered from I to LXXXIV, and 8 plates of the third supplement which appeared in 1784, numbered from I to VIII. Tome 3, which has 38 plates and 132 pages of text, began to appear in 1782 and continued to do so until 1784. It deals with the Sphingidae, the Aegeriidae and the Zygaenidae. The publishers issued a list of subscribers among whom there can be seen the King, Monsieur (to whom the work is dedicated), Madame, Members of the Royal Family, the King of Spain, the King of Sweden, and a goodly company of notabilities including Mile. Clairon, Pensionnaire du Roi. Tome 4, in which the Chenilles, Crisalides et Papillons Phalenes de la classe Premiere are described and figured—that is to say the Lithosiidae, Lasiocampidae, Attacidae, Liparidae, Notodontidae, &c.—was published between 1785 and 1786. It comprises 215 pages of text and 49 plates. With 152 pages of text and 39 plates, Tome 5 continued, from 1786 to 1788 the family of Classe Premiere : Lasiocampidae, Cossidae, Hepialidae, Notodontidae, not forgetting several Noctuids, such as Thalera popularis Fab., Scoliopteryx libatrix L., &c. Tome 6, relating to the Second class followed from 1789 to 1790. This is composed of 177 pages of text and of 47 plates, for the most part relating to the Noctuids, though some of them relate to the Lithosiidae and Amatidae as well. Tome 7, almost entirely devoted to the Noctuids, followed from 1790 to 1792 with 173 pages of text and 48 plates. Then, during the course of Tome 8, after 157 pages of text and 37 plates had been issued from 1792 to 1793, publication ceased in the latter year with Plate CCCXLII. Thus the total number of plates was 350, including those of the third supplement of the Diurna numbered from I to VIII. At the end of Tome 5, that is to say in 1788, the publishers had announced in the following terms, their intention of issuing a supplement to Class I :