62 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



The following are only a few specimens picked almost indiscriminately 

 from the docket before the court : 



Eudryas unlo, Vespa crabro, 



Chrysophanus Thoe, Thccla Mops us, 



Attacus mylltta, Telea Polyphemus, 



Satyrus nephele, Scolopendra heros, 



Morpho Menelaus, Cecidomyia destructor, 



" Polyphemus, Chionobas semidea, 



Limenitls Hephaestion, Ceratomia Amyntor, 



" misippus, Agrotis devastator, 



&c, &c, &c. 



The beautiful goddess of Mt. Washington and Pike's Peak (C. semidea ) 

 would seem less beautiful were she to become a demigod ( C. semideus). 

 Our old enemy the Hessian Fly (Cecidomyia destructor) might become 

 less injurious if made feminine (C. destructrlx). The Hesperians (H. 

 Wamsutta, H. Mystic, H. Hobomoc) may perhaps be held of either gender, 

 being scarcely Latin in any form. We can scarcely afford to dress 

 Agamemnon's brother in female attire and say Morpho Menelaa ; and 

 Polyphema is yet more unendurable either with Morpho or with Telea. 

 Before committing ourselves to such wholesale changes it is well to con- 

 sider if the step is compulsory. 



(i) It would introduce into scientific nomenclature a great number 

 of nouns not existing in Latin or any other language, and many of them 

 unnecessary. 



In addition to those given above, let us notice the example given by 

 Mr. Hulst, Melitaea phaethon, which he would make Melitaca phaethona. 

 The change proposed would not make the new word Latin, for there is 

 no reason to suppose that the feminine form of phaethon would have been 

 phaethona. Moreover, so far as termination is concerned the word as it 

 stands might be considered feminine if necessary, the ending on being so 

 used in that language, as, for example, in Gorgon. 



(2) Some of these words are capable of being explained so as to 

 remove the apparent discrepancy in gender. Take for example Mr. 

 Hulst's second instance, Danais archlppus. The specific name being a 

 modern coinage, must be judged according to the analogy of similar 

 terms in Greek. Applying this test, we find that such compounds usually 

 have but one form for both masculine and feminine genders. Phliiipus, 



