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VOL. VIII. LONDON, ONT., MARCH, 1876. No. 3 



NOTES ON ENTOMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



Part I. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 



My attention having recently been drawn to the " Historical Sketch 

 of the Generic Names Proposed for Butterflies, a Contribution to System- 

 atic Nomenclature, by S. H. Scudder, Salem, 1875," in which some 

 hundreds of names have for the first time been advanced, I was led 

 to investigate for myself the sources whence part of them were derived, 

 especially the works of Hiibner. And the conclusion to which I have 

 come respecting many of these newly proclaimed genera being directly 

 the reverse of that of the author of the Sketch, I desire to state the case 

 for the consideration of the readers of the Entomologist, who may 

 naturally be supposed to feel an interest in whatever concerns any 

 branch of Entomological nomenclature. 



1. I have before me what purports to be a fac-simile of Hubner's 

 Tentamen, "reprinted by Samuel H. Scudder, Cambridge, U.S.A., 

 1873." It comprises a single leaf, without date, the printed matter 

 measuring 7x9 inches, and covering both sides of the leaf ; and is 

 entitled Tentamen determinationis digestionis atque denominationis 

 singularum stirpium Lepidopterorum, peritis ad inspiciendum et dijudi- 

 candum communicatum, a Jacopo Hiibner. An Attempt at Classification 

 of the several groups of the Lepidoptera, communicated to skilled persons 

 to be examined and pronounced upon. 



In this Attempt, the Lepidoptera of all orders are divided into 

 Phalanxes, Tribes, and a farther division not named, but which, from 

 the analogous arrangement in the Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, 

 are Stirps ; and so far as relates to the Butterflies, the classification is as 

 follows : 



