800 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Mr. Lewis found that the author (p. 623) endorsed the opinion 
that Lepisma is a borer. Mr. Horne alluded to the damage 
done to silk garments in India by Lepisma; the insect 
evidently attacking the silks on account of the stiffening 
matters in them, but, nevertheless, making holes in the 
fabric. 
Grouping of British Macro-Lepidoptera.—Mr. W. A. 
Lewis read a paper on the order of the groups of the Macro- 
Lepidoptera. He criticised and condemned the arrange- 
ment introduced by Mr. Doubleday’s List of 1859, and 
accompanied the statement of his views with a variety of 
comments on the modern works dealing with his subject, 
particularly Dr. Knaggs’ ‘Cabinet List of Lepidoptera’ and 
Mr. Newman’s ‘ Natural History of British Moths.’ The 
paper first stated the order of arrangement by different 
authors from Linneus to the present day, the conclusion 
arrived at being that the Linnean order was followed almost 
without deviation by every author down to the year 1859; 
also that the Linnean names of the different groups were 
adopted very generally until the same date. Mr. Lewis 
remarked that since 1859 we, in England, had been subjected 
to the discomfort of having two rival systems of arrangement, 
the followers of neither of which take the smallest recognition 
of the other. He noticed severally the groups of Doubleday’s 
List, and stated, successively, reasons against the acceptance 
of the names Diurni, Nocturni, Drepanule and Pseudo- 
Bombyces; contending, in effect, that, in the case of the two 
first-named groups, the new names were, from their history, 
inapplicable; and as to the others, that both divisions had 
prior names. He also. objected to the name “ Pseudo- 
Bombyces,” on the further ground that the scheme of classi- 
fication, of which that group forms part, does not acknowledge 
a group ‘‘Bombyces,” and therefore a group “ Pseudo- 
Bombyces,” in the same scheme, is a solecism. Mr. Lewis 
expressed his belief that the existence of the group Pseudo- 
Bombyces was entirely owing to the necessity, in M. 
Guenée’s view, of maintaining the order of the Noctue 
which he, and other authors, had observed. ‘To do this it 
was necessary to place them in the old position next after 
some Bombyciform genera, as the group had been arranged 
to “face towards” Bombyx. Mr. Lewis contended that the 
