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forehead downwards, ou the card, so that the face can be 

 seen, the maximum of convenience will be attained. 



In the Catalogue of IchneumonidcB, published last year, I 

 wish to point out that the word Enicospilits (p. 50) acci- 

 dentally escaped correction. It should of course be Heni- 

 cospilus. And in reply to Mr. Dunning's inquiry (E. M. M. 

 1873, p. 222) why I. periscelis is left unchanged, while 

 ccdoscelis is changed to caloscelus, I should explain that 

 the former, being a Greek substantive, " an anklet," is 

 invariable ; but the latter is an adjective, and must agree 

 with the generic name. I was not fortunate enough to 

 think of any probable origin for the word Ophion ; and, 

 being also aware of the Fabrician practice of inventing 

 words without meaning, I paid no special attention to this. 

 Mr. Dunning, however, has found out an explanation which 

 may be regarded as settling the matter; and specific names 

 under Ophion should be masculine. The words leptogaster 

 and appendigaster on p. 132 I left, because I saw no reason- 

 able mode of changing them. And the same remark applies 

 to Anomalon xanthopus, I endeavoured on a former occa- 

 sion to show that such words as xanthopus^ treated as sub- 

 stantives, have a somewhat silly nicknamish sort of sound 

 in scientific writing, about on a par with " daddy-long-legs " 

 in English. Still they are defensible, and have been de- 

 fended, which is more than could be said of my emendation, 

 if I had written xcmthopum. On p. i^o, Homalopi is correct. 

 If Mr. Dunning had continued his researches, he would have 

 found Prosopi, &c., and would at once have seen that these 

 words refer to the face, and not the foot. On p. 121, 

 hcemorrhous is also correct, and not — rrhcEtis. And, lastly, 

 I must confess that words like Ruddii seem to me unworthy 

 of the powder and shot of criticism that may be spent upon 

 them. In the middle ages, and since, men have latinized 



1874. K 



