Ɛpsilon

WCP677

Letter (WCP677.849)

[1]

Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon

Octr. 31st. 1879

My dear Stainton,1

After much difficulty I have got Standinger’s Catalogue2 & have gone all throught it, & extracted the accompanying list of species & var. noted as British only.

Will you be so good as to look over it, and let me know whether any of these have since been found on the continent, — or have been decidedly to have been mistakenly separated from continental species. In either case I will strike these names out & give the rest for [2] what it is worth:

One I see is a peculiar genus. Please let me know if this still remains peculiar to Britain both as species & genus. (Perittea)

Also, if you can give me a list of the new species discovered since the date of the Catalogue, & which are not know from the Continent, I shall be much obliged.

Believe me | Yours very truly | Alfred R Wallace [signature]

1
Stainton, Henry Tibbats (1822-1892). British Entomologist. Secretary of the Entomological Society of London 1850-52; Secretary of the Linnean Society 1869-74; Secretary of the Zoological Record Association 1871-86.
2
Otto Staudinger (1830-1900). German entomologist and natural history dealer. He published three catalogues on the Lepidoptera of Europe and eventually the entire Palaearctic ecozone. Staudinger was one of the largest collectors of the time that specialised in the sale of insects to museums and private collections.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP677.849)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2012-04-24] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2024-11-11]

Please cite as “WCP677,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP677