Jean Etienne Berce colection of European Lepidoptera was in the possetion of Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920)on the 1880's - Mattozo Santos, F. 1895. Notas de Zoochorographia Portugueza. I. Lepidópteros da Serra da Estrella. Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 14 (2): 139-191.After AACM died,this collection was sold in public auction to Fernando Carneiro Mendes (1893-1976)and after that it was offered to the Centro de Zoologia do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT) in Lisbon, were it was named Palearctic Collection, although it only contains European specimens. http://archive.org/details/AntonioAugustoCarvalhoMonteiro-UmNaturalistaPioneiro (2013-09-28) — Incorporated 2013-12-17