Haliday Ms

Catalogus in Capsulum

In English Catalogus in Capsulum means Catalogue of the little box (Capsulum means in a condensed or compact form). This is the first page. The catalogue, which is in Haliday's best handwriting, lists the contents of Alexander Haliday’s early cabinet of his valuable specimens. That is to say his type specimens and very carefully mounted specimens of insects collected in Holywood, Co. Down. A few survivors sent to Hermann Loew ( and misleadingly labelled Dublin by Loew ) are conserved in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.It is to be distinguished from his general collection.

The MfN specimens Tipulidae

Tipula dispar Haliday, 1833: 155

A single direct pinned specimen on a long German pin- 2/3 way up. 1st label Dublin [in Haliday's hand]/2nd label Tipula dis par Halid* Ent. M. I I55 Loew's hand-writing and "Type" star. Black ink on white card/ 3rd label tiny lilac label/4 th label printed 9156/5th label red printed Typus

Geranomyia unicolor Haliday, 1833: 155

A single carded specimen on a long German pin. 1st label unicolor/Hal. * Loew's hand-writing and "Type" star. Black ink on white card./2nd label printed 8606 3 rd label Red Holotypus (mihi)

Ula mollissima Haliday, 1833: 153

A single beautifully carded specimen. 1st label Dublin[in Haliday's hand]/2nd label printed 6205/3rd label England [sic] Dublin 4 th label printed H. Loew/5th label Ula mollissima Hal. *Ent. Mag.1Loew's hand. Black ink on white card