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shorter or longer papers to the Transactions of learned societies, and to 

 the periodicals of the day, especially to the ' Zoologist ' and ' Entomolo- 

 gist ;' by the indexes of the latter I find he sent thirteen communications 

 to the first volume, three to the second, one to the fourth, thirteen to the 

 fifth, and forty-three to the sixth : during the present year his writings 

 appear in every number. I intended to catalogue these and his other 

 labours, to give some idea of the number of images, number of species and 

 dates of each ; but I can scarcely now venture to look forward to the 

 accomplishment of this labour of love. 



A Avord remains to be spoken of the man apart from the scientific and 

 accomplished naturalist. Throughout my long life I have never met with 

 anyone who possessed more correct, more diversified, or more general 

 information, or who imparted that information to others with greater 

 readiness and kindness ; I have never met with any one more unassuming, 

 more utterly unselfish, more uniformly kind and considerate to all with 

 whom he came in contact. It is no ordinary happiness to have enjoyed 

 the friendship of such a man for nearly half a century. — Edward Ncivman 

 in The Entomo/o^isf. 



CORRESPOXDE^XE. 



ox CIRRCEDIA PAMPINA Gucn. 



Dear Sir, — 



In the list of the North American Noctuid^e published in the Bulletin 



of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, we find the familiar name of 



Cirnvdia Guen. replaced by AtctJunia Hubn. We are unable to see the 



necessity of this change. Atethmia was founded by Hubner in the 



Verzeichniss (1816) on 



X cranipelitia Hb. 

 a nil) us ta W. X . 

 sub list a Hb. 



Guenee, in his '■^ Essai sur Ics NoctueJitcs^' printed in the Annals of 

 the French P'.ntomological Society for 1839, j). 489, takes out xcrampe/i?ia, 

 which is congeneric with our pampina as well as the European anibusta, 

 placing it in the genus Cirnvdia. In 1852, the same author in the "■ Species 

 Getiera/;' vol. 6, p. 12, defines yi///^/w/V? (whicli he spells as in tlie index^ 

 not the text of the " Verzeichniss "), referring subusta as the typical 



