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It will have been noticed in the present paper that I pro- 

 pose to alter the names of several British species of Satyridai: 

 now-, as I hear rumours of a List of British Insects, would it 

 not be well that at least the synonymy of the remainder of 

 the butterflies should be carefully looked into ? It is a fact 

 beyond dispute that British butterflies are rarely referred, by 

 English Entomologists, to their proper genera : 1 am con- 

 stantly seeing the following in print : — 



Anthocharis Cardamines for Euchloe Cardamines 

 Vanessa Atalanta „ Pyrameis Atalanta 



Cynthia Cardui „ Pyrameis Cardui 



Grapta C-Album „ Vanessa C-Album 



The genus Euchloe was first described by Hlibner (1816). 



It is absurd to separate Atalanta generically from Cardui, 

 as many intermediate forms exist ; it is, however, quite dis- 

 tinct from Vanessa. C-Album is closely allied to Polychloros, 

 and is linked to that form by several connecting species. 

 Cardui has nothing whatever to do with the genus Cynthia. 



It appears to me that we have at least two genera under 

 the name of Thecla, but I have not yet paid much attention 

 to this group. 



A. G. Butler. 



A Revision qfihe Brilish Species of the Genus Bomhus. 

 By Fredekick Smith, Esq. 



(Continued from p. 269). 



7. Bombus Pomorum, Smith, Ent. Ann. (1865), p. 85, 

 male, female. 

 Bremus Pomorum, Panz. Faun, Germ. 89, 17, male. 



Some years ago I captured three male Bombi which [ 

 subsequently regarded as extremely fine varieties of the male 

 of Apathus rupestris ; at that time I did not very carefully 

 examine them. In 1864 my son captured a female Bombus 

 that was new to me : this was taken about two miles distant 

 from the locality where I had previously found the three 

 males. The close resemblance between these males and the 



