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anil Aiitieoslieiisis (if llioy be not the same) are both varieties of Asteriiis." AVliv Mr. Streeker considers it absurd 

 to call n species brevicauda he docs not deign to inform us; can it be lliat he lias a conscientious objection to any 

 further references to the tails of insects under any circumstances, or is it the evident superiority in length and grandil- 

 (Hiuence of sound which Anticostientis has over brcncauda which makes the use of the latter to his mind so absurd ? 

 It does sei'ui strange that with all Mr. Strecker's anxiety to avoid " re-christening old species," he should astonish 

 the KntonuiloKical worhl with such a name as Aniieostienaia nov. sp., when at the same time he states his belief in 

 the probabilitv of its being but a variety of Aiteriat. .Such a proceeding .seems at least contradictory, and, it will 

 appear to some, as if he had thus placeil himself, in his anxiety to have his name attached to a species, in the very 

 (Hisiiion he professes a wisli to avoid, and which he has designated in such choice 1 language. — AV. Saundebs 

 London, Ontario. 



Mv thanks afc due to ^[l•. W. Saiuulcfs of the editing committee of tlic Canadian Ento- 

 mologist for the above splendid and entirely unexpeeted advertisement of this work, which I' 

 find in the June number of that publication just issued ; in looking over the ever-welcome 

 j>ages of the Kiitoiuologi.st, I found commendatory notices of twentv-fivc or more serials, but 

 the present work on Lepidojitera was not, from some accidental cause, I sui)posed, among the 

 number, but what were my feelings ou turning a few pages further to find, that whilst such 

 standard works as Ilardwieke's Scicnec Gossip, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., Newman's Ento- 

 mologist, iVe.. iiad received but a few lines of editorial notice, my own jioor work, owing to the 

 generosity of Mr. Saunders, one of the able corps of editors, had assigned to it two and-a-half 

 pages ! the emotions of Mr. Saunders must liavc been intense ; he gives rac his sympathy, 

 liis compassion, he feels sorry for me to a degree that evidently lacks language to express it- 

 self, and, finally, in his wonderful and rare self-abnegation, his extreme modesty, (that un- 

 erring index of all great minds,) he affects to ask so unworthy au individual as myself for 

 information, not tlirectly it is true, but delicately by intimation ; of course Mr. Saunders 

 knows already anything I can tell him, and every one knows that he does too, which only 

 further enhances the delicacy of the compliment; but still, far be it from me to be so lacking 

 in resjHvt to the Ent. Autoeitit of the (."anadas as not to go through the form of a rei>ly, at 

 least ; the reason I did not, to quote Mr. Saunders, " deigu to inform us," (the "us," I humbly 

 presume, means Mr. Saunders,) why it wasabsurd to call a species Brevioauda was simply 

 Ixvause the intormation was already given on the last few lines of page 11 and the first couple 

 of pagi^ 12 of this work ; by reading the whole of the article on Papilio Auticostiensis, it will 

 be seen that the expression, that it would be absurd to retain the name of Brevicauda, was 

 provisional, and only in the event that Brevicauda and Anticosticusis were the same, for the 

 reason that the tails of the latter are no shorter than in many other species, such for instance 

 as P. Zolicaon, Maehaon, llospiton, Philenor, Sadalu.s, Ag-amemnon, Indra, Xuthulu.*, ttc, 

 so that if it should eventually be proven that Auticostiensis is identical with Brevicauda I 

 certainly would, in my woefid ignorance, persist in considering the name Brevicauda absurd 

 when appliinl to a siKvies with tails no shorter than twenty others of the s;ime genus. 



Kegtinling my astonishing " the Entomologiciil world with such a name as Auticostiensis," 

 I can only s;ty if the said world is astonished, it has expcriencctl the same .sensation before, at 

 le:\st that part of it has whose studies extend beyond the narrow confines of some province 

 or county, for such names as Xcelgherriensis,* I^adakensis.t Mephistophclcs,! Goschkevitschii,^ 



•Ltnhe Xeelgherriensis, Gueriu. 

 tColi;is Ladakensis, Feld. 

 JHeterochroa Mepbistopheles, Bull. 

 {Lafiommata Goschkevilschii, Men. 



