NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1872. 17 



In a valuable paper on the collection and preservation of 

 Nenropterous Insects (Ent. M. M. ix, p. 99 et seq.), Mr. 

 M'Laclilan has anew and somewhat vigorously urged the 

 stock argument employed by those who prefer mntilating their 

 specimens to keeping them whole on card. Those who are 

 sufficiently interested in this attempt to revive an extinct 

 practice, will find a reply at p. 136 of the same publication. 



Some instructions by myself on collecting and preserving 

 beetles will be found in " Science Gossip," No. 91 (July, 

 1872, pp. 145—151). 



It is not, I trust, out of place for me to refer here to a 

 matter concerning British Entomology as a whole, and to a 

 small extent personally affectiog myself. I allude to a dis- 

 cussion on the question of nomenclature, in which the " re- 

 surrection" of disused names is strongly opposed, raised hj 

 a Mr. W. A. Lewis, with whom, as an entomologist or 

 otherwise, I admit, but (judging from the following sample of 

 his method of working) can scarcely with truth say that I 

 deplore, my want of acquaintance. This gentleman has been 

 good enough to send me a printed page {^Q), extracted from 

 a pamphlet of similar matter published by him, containing the 

 following remarks : '" But what am I to say of those who, pro- 

 " fessing to see through the hollowness of my arguments, 

 " nevertheless have from first to last denied themselves the 

 " gratification of exposing it ? They have exercised a noble 

 " self-restraint ; and deserve that entomologists should ad- 

 '' mire their magnanimity. Thus, Mr. E. C. Rye, — after a 

 " foot-note of two lines •[• designed apparently to dispose of 

 " the whole question, — in Ent. Ann. 1872 (p. 24), prefaces 

 " his sixteen pages of copied synonymy by mentioning ' the 

 " question of ' resurrection' upon which so much energy has 

 " been expended by certain of his fellow-students during the 

 " past year' — and there he stays his hand. Mr. Eye has 



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