Lists 1363 species, classified according to the system of Fabricius.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴ D-I⁴ K1.
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SCNHRB copy (39088013483946) has written in ink on recto of leaf following the index: Schwarz 1895 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. vol III, p. 134) says this copy was the one used and annotated by the author (Fred. Val. Melsheimer) who inserted numerous additions and comments. to which his son J.F. Melsheimmer, the correspondent of Thos. Say, has further added.--the latest of these additions dating from 1825.--but that a few notes and an index written previous to 1834 are in the hand of Dr. F.E. Melsheimer. H.S. Barber, Mar. 1935.
SCNHRB copy has written in ink on the recto of the leaf before the t.p.: B.P. Mann from the Melsheimer Library, 1875. Presented to Eugene A. Schwarz as a token of friendship and esteem. Nov. 1892 B. Pickman Mann.
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: U.S. National Museum Library of Henry Guernsey Hubbard and Eugene Amandus Schwarz donated in 1902 accession no. 177467.
SCNHRB copy the author's copy with numerous ms. additions and corrections including 22 p. of additions bound in at the end and ms. index attached to back paste-down.
SCNHRB copy with three-leaf index with white letters on blue background signed Geo. M. Greene, Jan. 3rd, 1916 bound in at front.
SCNHRB copy has blind-embossed stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum.
SCNHRB copy bound in recent three-quarters calf and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine.
