Clje Canadian Entomologist 



VOL. VIII. LONDON, ONT., MAY, 1876. No. 5 



NOTES ON ENTOMOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE. 



Part II 



BY W. H. EDWARDS. 



In 1806, Hiibner, as we have seen, printed for his own use and in 

 order that it might be submitted to certain competent persons, to be 

 examined and judged of, the sketch of a plan for the arrangement of the 

 Lepidoptera, called the Tentamen, &c.j and this sketch "was afterwards 

 enlarged and published as the Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, ; ' as 

 stated by Geyer. Thon's Archiv., vol. 1, p. 28, 1827. What the Tentamen 

 is I have shown in a previous paper, Can. Ent, vol. viii, Feb'y No., and 

 have given reasons for denying its authority in nomenclature. I will now 

 proceed to show the character of the Verzeichniss and to examine its 

 claims in the same direction. 



The Verzeichniss bekannter Schmetterlinge, a Catalogue of Known 

 Butterflies, by Jacob Hiibner, Augsburgh, 181 6, pp. 431, follows the 

 general plan of the Tentamen. The Lepidoptera are divided into several 

 Phalanxes, of which the first is called Papilioncs, the second Sphinges, the 

 third Bombyces, &c. 



The Papilioncs are divided into two Tribes, called nymphalcs and 

 gentiles. 



The nymphalcs into 9 Stirps, the gentiles into 6, and each Stirps into 

 many families, so that in all there are 62 families among the Butterflies; 

 and each family is divided into small batches called coitus and altogether 

 there are 309 coitus of Butterflies. 



The Stirps are briefly and unevenly defined by characters drawn from 

 the mouth, the " snout " (proboscis), the " ears ' (antennne), the body 

 and wings, and partly from the colors of the wings. 



The 1st Stirps of the nymphalcs, called Nereides, is thus defined : 

 " Antennae thin, but thickened like a club at the end, fore wings narrow 



