34 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



" Nobody but a fool or a madman would try to persuade the modern^ 

 New Yorkers to call their city New Amsterdam, or the English to have 

 their letters addressed to Londinium, because these were the old original 

 names. And yet, what men of the world would never dream of doing- 

 certain scientific men are doing every day." — Walsh, Am. Ent., 1872. 



j\ The name placed after a genus shall be that of the author who 

 established the genus i?i the sense in which it is actually used. — Dr. Sharp r 

 i?i Nature, Feb. , 1872. 



Note. — " Carabus of Linnaeus included all the insects now comprised 

 in the family Carabidse, at present divided into several hundreds of gen- 

 era. To write, therefore, Carabus, Linn., when we mean something else, 

 may be usual, but is not desirable." — Dr. Sharp, ibid. 



I do not deny to any author the right to establish new genera. Quite 

 the contrary. But I would insist on these genera standing on their own 

 merits, and claim for the Entomological world the right to accept them or 

 not, as they choose. If any one thinks it worth while to break up Papilio, 

 for instance, let him do so at his pleasure, but do not let him apply to the 

 severed parts names taken from Hubner or other ancient author, in order- 

 to give these brand-new creations a smack of age, and so get the advan- 

 tage of another author who may honestly put his name to his own work 

 It is by this species of wrong that Nisoniades, Hubner has supplanted 

 Thanaos, Boisduval ; Oeneis, Hub. is trying to supplant Chionobas, Bois.;. 

 Polygonia, Hub. thrusts itself into the place of Grapta, Kirby, and so in 

 cases innumerable. 



Rules 4. and jj, if carried out, must put an effectual stop to the perpetual 

 shifting of names. 



Other Rules, which might properly form part of a Code, are as 

 follows: —  



6. The same specific name may be employed in genera sufficiently 

 remote from each other. — Staudinger, Cat. 



7. If a species has received different names for its sexes, that first 

 given shall be retained. 



8. The names of species should properly be Latin, or Latinized to 

 the extent that renders them capable of being used in scientific Latin. 

 But names once given are not to be altered or set aside for any defect or 

 errors. — Dr. Sharp, before cited. 



" It matters not in the least by what conventional sound we agree to- 

 designate an individual object, provided the sign to be employed be 



