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have to give way to Reversa Stretch, and added, " I scarcely expect Mr. 

 Lyman's adhesion to this theory." Probably not, but certainly not from 

 the idea which he would seem to imply, as I trust I am not so petty as to 

 allow any desire to have my own name stand, to warp my judgment as to 

 what would be right in the premises. 



Mr. Smith claimed that Mr. Stretch's name Reversa included Confusa 

 as well as Suffiisa and Contigtia. I doubt this very much, but let it be 

 assumed that it did, what follows ? This is Mr. Smith's reasoning ; 

 Contigua had priority for one part of Stretch's description, " I separated 

 stiffusa, and the name stands for the remaining part, viz., confusa 

 Lyman, which would remain only as a synonym of reversa." This I 

 consider, and I trust Mr. Smith will forgive me for saying it, absolute non. 

 sense, though unlike Mr. Smith's friend at the New York meeting, without 

 any profane adjective. 



What Mr. Smith did subsequently to Mr. Stretch's description could 

 hardly affect the application of that name unless he had pointed out that 

 the name Reversa covered several distinct species, and proposed that it 

 should be limited to one of them, and then proceeded to give a new name 

 to any other undescribed form. 



Mr. Smith did not do this, and naturally so, as he thought, the name 

 Reversa included Contigtia, Lecontei, and the form which he undertook to 

 describe as Siiffusa. He thus proceeded to give a new name to what he 

 considered the only previously undescribed species included by Mr. 

 Stretch in his description. Certainly the greater part of the description of 

 Reversa applies to Suffusa; Mr. Stretcli, especially, saying that the mark- 

 ings " are exactly as in C/ymene," and Mr. Smith, himself, acknowledged 

 this to me. I, therefore, think that if the name Reversa is to stand, it 

 must be for Suffusa, and not for the foriii which may possibly have been 

 referred to in the following bracketed eight words of a sixteen line de- 

 scription : " The basal patch is triangular, (sometimes divided by a nar- 

 row, basal brown brand)." 



I think, however, that as the first half of the description was evidently 

 intended to cover Contigua, which Mr. Stretch appears to have considered 

 the stem form, the name should be ignored, except as a synonym, and Mr. 

 Butler wrote that he agreed wit"h me on this point. Mr. Grote, on the 

 contrary, wrote that Reversa should stand with Suffusa as a synonym. 



Mr. Butler found fault with both Mr. Smith and me for using the 



