Xll INTRODUCTION. 



mentioned, it was manifestly impossible to predicate then that 

 the noiv well-known species was a common and a variable one ; and 

 moreover, these remarks of Guenee are made in 1852, notwith- 

 standing the corrections of the synomyny were made in p. 136, of 

 the former part of this Catalogue, published in 1850, of which 

 Guenee should have been aware, as he quotes the genus Coenobia 

 therefrom in a preceding page ( 1 02) of his volume." 



" Allusion has been made to the change of the name Cribrum 

 amongst the Tineae, in consequence of there being a Crihrum in 

 Bombyx. Why therefore is anachoreta introduced by Guenee as 

 a Noctua (vol. vi. p. 196) seeing that there is a long established 

 Bombyx anachoreta P And again, Mamestra 5rame« retains its 

 name notwithstanding the well-known Papilio (Pieris) Brassica; of 

 our gardens." 



" In conclusion, it may be added that these remarks are intro- 

 duced solely with a view to point out the palpable inconvenience 

 of the proposed system, and not from any captious spirit of 

 opposition.'' 



