of the Entomologist indicates a surge of entomology in England. Zoological Record started in London. Continues work of Hagen, but includes taxa other than insects. Carl Stål Hemiptera Africana. 1–4, Holmiae, Stockholm. [in Latin, textual descriptions, keys to genera] 1864–1866. Frédéric Jules Sichel wrote , an important text on Hymenoptera. 1865 Alfred Russel Wallace On the Phenomena of Variation and Geographical Distribution as Illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan Region (vol.25 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London). Seminal biogeographic and evolutionary work essentially laying out the principles of allopatric speciation. Cajetan Freiherr von Felder, Rudolf Felder and Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer Fregatte Novara. Lepidoptera. 1–3. commenced. Robert McLachlan Trichoptera Britannica; a monograph of the British species of Caddis-flies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. (3) 5: 1–184 Samuel Hubbard Scudder An inquiry into the zoological relation of the first discovered traces of fossil neuropterous insects in North America; with remarks on the different structure of wings of living Neuroptera. – Memoirs Read Before the Boston Society of Natural History. 1: 173–192 1865–1867 1866 Josef Mik . Abh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 16:301–310, published. Mik's first work on the Diptera. Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker commenced Arthropoda, in , (Section Arthropoda, in Classes and Orders of the Animal Kingdom) in 1866. The work was finished in 1893. 1867 Johannes Winnertz . Vienna. 1868 August Emil Holmgren . Fregatten Eugenies . II Zoologi 1 Insecta pp. 391–442 pl. viii. Charles Valentine Riley appointed to the office of entomologist of the State of Missouri. Carl Ludwig Kirschbaum, 1869 Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell publishes European Spiders, followed by (in 1870) Synonymy of European Spiders, two works which significantly progress the taxonomy of spiders. La Società Entomologica Italiana is founded. Louis Pandelle . . Ferdinand Ferdinandovitsch Morawitz Bienen . 6: 27–71. Auguste Puton publishes Deyrolle, 1869 1870 Thomas Ansell Marshall, Ichneumonidium Brittanicorum Catalogus. London Franz Pfaffenzeller publishes in Stettin Ent. Ztg. 31 (7–9) : 320–324 1871 Enrico Verson (1845–1927) founded the world's first silkworm experimental station in Italy. 1872 Ferdinand Heinrich Hermann Strecker Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceras, Indigenous and Exotic; with Descriptions and Colored Illustrations published. 1874 Robert McLachlan publishes the first volume of Monographic revision and synopsis of the Trichoptera of the European fauna (two volumes, 1874 and 1880). Achille Costa 1874. Fauna Salentina. Tip. Ed. Salentina, Lecce, Italia. 1875 Antonio Curò commenced (completed 1889). Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest . 1876 Augustus Radcliffe