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first 8 numbers,'' and in the catalogue of the hbrary of Victor Andouin, 

 p. 55, we find the same statement. In the catalogues of the libraries of 

 old prominent Scientists, Charpentier, Dejean, Guerin, Meneville, Klug, 

 Lacordaire, Sturm, the Entomological Magazine is wanting. Burmeister, 

 Handbuch, vol. II, p. 14, quotes ilic first volume and one number as 

 seen by him, and this is the only copy mentioned for German}-. The 

 first copy I saw myself, 1839, belonged to Mr. G. Marxlin in Upsala. 

 As it was my custom, I copied for my own use all belonging to Odanata, 

 but by a curious chance out of the copy still before me the part on Sym- 

 pctnun must have been lost during my travels, and is therefore not quoted 

 in my dissertation, 1840, and m my Review on the recent literature of 

 Neuroptera, Stett. Ento. Zeit., 1849, p. 68, only as not seen by me. 



When in 1857 I went to London by invitation of Mr. J. E. Gray to 

 study the British Neuroptera in the collections, I applied to Mr. E. New- 

 man for the permission to see his own collection and that of the Ento- 

 mological Club. I will never forget the kindness with which I was re- 

 ceived by him. He spent the larger part of a whole day in showing 

 me the collections, and as in the meantime I had made myself thoroughly 

 acquainted with his \vritings, we had a detailed conversation about them, 

 and of course also on the nomenclature of the Z/ZW/z/A/. Zoologist, 1857, 

 p. 5879, he speaks about my visit and says : "the Neuroptera have been 

 recently examined and the nomenclature rectified by Dr. Hagen." 



He did not take any exception to the nomenclature used by De Selys 

 and myself in the Revue, of which, contrary to his former intentions, he 

 has never made a report. So 1 had the conviction he had relinquished 

 Sympetrum as well as the other genera. I cou>idered the names free and 

 used three of them with .a different character, converting them in a 

 femmine combination, to avoid the tedious change of the species name to 

 a neutrum. 



After all, it was not the fate of English papers only to be over- 

 looked in those times. Mr. E. Newman himself, when he pubhshed, 

 1852, his paper on the classification of Neuroptera, entirely over- 

 looked the papers of Klug, Erichson, and Stein published twelve years 

 before. 



The names of Mr. E. Newman have not been used by any one of the 

 many writers on LihcHula during the long time since their publication, 

 and Mr. E. Newman has never taken any exception to vindicate his rights, 

 though all important works were well known to him. He has never ob- 

 jected to the use of his names modified and accompanied by a difterent 

 character by myself in the Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, 

 in i860. 



Mr. MXachlan introduced tliese names again in his List of British 



