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mind, a greater difficulty of grouping the specimens. A 

 White Mountain butterfly (par excellence), a dull-eyed and 

 a blue-eyed Grayling, an arctic Satyr, &c., &c., and Camber- 

 well Beauty would lead soon to misunderstandings which 

 could not be disentangled. 



With reference to the latter, I ask, who here would willing- 

 ly adopt such a name for the Antiopa of California ? ! Every 

 person from Germany greets it here as " Trauermantel : ' 

 (mourning cloak), and may ask, perhaps, how is it called in 

 English? Could I answer? So with " Atalanta." The 

 same as at home, our "Admiral?!" How shall I name for 

 them our five Papiliones, whom they all know as " Swallow- 

 tails? 1 ' Philenor I name for them the green Swallow-tail. 



Finally, let us remember and always print the " popular " 

 names, as a by -gift, but let us abstain from trying to create 

 popular names, if it were even by translating the whole of 

 Kirby's Catalogue into the vernacular. 



To show that I myself am a lover of popular names, to 

 which I always lend an attentive ear, I make free to add 

 these following genuine ones, and to ask permission to report 

 more from time to time, when memory serves me : 



British Blondes, for the two Comonymphas ; 



Buckeye, for Junonia Coenia. James Behrens. 



English Names for Butterflies. 



{Continued from page 3.) 



9. Danaics Plexippm. — The Monarch. 

 D'Urbau calls it the Storm Fritillary, but it is not a Fritillary. Gosse 

 called it the Archippus, but this is not its proper name. It is one of the 

 largest of our butterflies, and rules a vast domain. 



10. Basilareliia Disippe. — The Viceroy. 



This name is suggested from its mimicry of the preceding species. 



11. Basilarchia Astyanax. — The red-spotted Purple. 

 This name was proposed by Gosse. 



12. Basilarchia Arthemis. — The banded Purple. 

 Also proposed by Gosse. 



13. Doxoeopa Hers'e. — The tawny Emperor. 

 The species of this group are termed Emperors in England. 



14. Polygonia interrogationis. — The Violet-tip. 

 A name well proposed by Gosse. 



