NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 57 



ward scientific name, was given to insects treated 

 of in economical reports ; and, fnrther, that Gosse, 

 an Englishman who came to this conntry in his 

 youth and wrote very interestingly of our animals, 

 almost invariably applied a name, apparently of 

 his own coining, to the butterflies with which he 

 here came in contact. I therefore made an at- 

 tempt to introduce such names into our nomen- 

 clature, where they had not already been given, en- 

 deavoring to adopt from the English such generic 

 terms as fritillary, hair-streak, etc., for similar but- 

 terflies of our own country, and to coin appropri- 

 ate names where required. I published a list of 

 this sort in the first volume of " Psyche," which 

 strangely enough met with most violent opposi- 

 tion, an opposition which appeared to me to be 

 entirely unreasonable and certainly out of all pro- 

 portion to the adjudged crime. 



Accordingly in my " Butterflies of the Eastern 

 United States " I again attempted to collate all the 

 names that I could find that had been given to our 

 different butterflies, and to select from among them 

 that one which seemed most worthy of perma- 

 nence, as my contribution toward a popular termi- 

 nology. Of course in this case precedence is of no 

 consequence, and local names applicable to another 



