1903.] 259 



I take this opportunity to disclaim the authorship of " Bl nstohasidce ," attributed 

 to me by Staudinger and Rebel ; 1 adopted it from Meyrick (Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1894, 22). 



On page 450 Dr. Fernald rightly follows Professor Zeller in giving neuter ter- 

 minations to the names of all species placed under the genus Exartema, Clms., but 

 on pp. 478-81 lie adopts feminine terminations under the genus Archips, Hb., 

 whereas the Greek word i\p is masculine, and the early worms should thus be all 

 of the male gender. 



Although conservatism must be gratefully acknowletlged so far as it applies to 

 the true principles of priority, it is a matter for regret that some effort has not been 

 made to correct at least the more flagrant of those ill-formed names, for so many of 

 wliich Mr. Chambers was unfortunately responsible. Without multiplying instances 

 I take, for example, the two names that first occur to me, No. 6117, cesella, Climb., 

 No. 5990, ceneiiseUa, Climb. ; the genitive of ces is aris, the name should therefore 

 be cerella, and cBneella should supplant the equally unallowable ceneuseUa. Again, 

 there are many instances of the termination ella being affixed to genitives ending 

 in CB without the elimination of its thus offensive superfluity, e. g., 5780, amhro- 

 siceella, Chmb. ; 5781, amorphceel la, C\\mh., &c. A specially favourable opportunity 

 for such necessary emendations appears to have been neglected, although in what 

 professes to be only a " List " this would perhaps scarcely come within the scope of 

 the authors' intentions. If it be contended that these corrections are not permissi- 

 ble on principles of priority the question may be open to discussion, but this view 

 is certainly open to protest. 



The authors seem to be tliorougiily justified when they include in their 

 synonymy errors of spelling in subsequent quotation of original nomenclature 

 (whether printers' or authors' errors), the effect of which so far must be to 

 prevent the mistaken use in the future of these wrongly printed or quoted names, 

 but it is to be regretted that when such names have been corrected they are in this 

 List not unfrequently restored, the corrections being treated as synonyms, e. g., on 

 the same page (555) No. 6310, " tilieacella, Chambers," corrected to " tiliella" in 

 which case it may be observed that a further synonym is created, as Chambers did 

 wot ^rint" tilieacella" hu.\,'' tiliacella." No. 63L5, " tjiariceella, Chambers," cor- 

 rected to " mariella," here my original correction in " Insect Life " is not quoted. 

 No. 6318, " castanectella, Chambers," corrected to " castanella,''' and No. 6316, 

 " tritceniella, Chambers," in which case to be perfectly consistent, the name should 

 have been as originally spelt, " trilcEnianellu," and the other EIGHT different ways 

 in which Chambers himself subsequently spelt the name (trltoeneanella, tritenoe- 

 anella, tritenoeanella, tritaeniaella, trUcsnicella, triiaeniceella, tritceniaella, tri- 

 tcBTtiaella) might have been quoted. 'Ihe spelling as now adopted has not even the 

 recommendation of its own author's personal preference, expressed [Can. Ent., V, 

 173 (1873)] for " tritaeniaella," although it may certainly be welcomed as more 

 correct and as a hopeful sign that real emendations must eventually secure accept- 

 ance. In this connection, p. 492, No. 5502, " albapalpella. Chambers," syn. 

 " albopalpella, Riley," both wrongly formed, might well have been corrected to 

 albipalpella, and the numerous cases of words ending in us, to which Chambers 

 added the termination ella, such as 581-, maculatusella, and 5816, " obscurusella," 

 Chmb., surely need correction, as painfully shown where 5815, " obscureUa," Chmb., 



