Entomological Nomenclature. 

 The rules of zoological, and especially of entomological, 

 nomenclature have attracted much attention during the past 

 year, both in this country and in North America, where a 

 Committee has been formed with a view to laying down some 

 fixed principles, to obviate the terrible mischief resulting from 

 the constant alteration of names on the ground of "priority." 

 On this subject Mr. Samuel H. Scudder has published a 

 " Historical Sketch of the Generic Names proposed for Butter- 

 flies, being a Contribution to Systematic Nomenclature," in the 

 ' Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 New Series, vol. ii., 4to, Boston, 1875, pp. 91 to 293. 



Economic Entomology. 



The establishment of a cabinet of sj^ecimens, illustrating the 

 economic uses and injuries of insects, in one of our national 

 museums, is a subject of congratulation to those who look at the 

 science beyond the mere collection and description of specimens. 

 This has been done in the Branch Museum of the South 

 Kensington establishment, at the Bethnal Green Museum, by 

 the care of Mr. Andrew Murra}-^, who has for several years 

 paid especial attention to this subject, and who has contri- 

 buted the first part of a descriptive catalogue of its contents 

 (comprising the wingless species of insects), which has been 

 published by the Government department of Science and Art. 



The Exhibition in the Jardin of the Tuilleries, in Paris, of a 

 very extensive series of illustrations and specimens of Economic 

 Entomology, is especially to be mentioned, being the third of the 

 series, and which was entirely formed by the assistance of country 

 naturalists and entomologists, none of the leaders of the science 

 in France being contributors. 



In the United States, Mr. Charles V. Riley, the State Entomo- 

 logist of Missouri, has continued his labours, and has published 

 his Eighth Annual Eeport on the noxious, beneficial, and other 

 insects of that State, illustrated — as all his memoirs are — by 

 admirable wood engravings ; containing the potato-beetle, the 

 army-worm, the rocky-mountain locust, the Phylloxera, and 

 the singular butterfly whose caterpillar is known as the Yucca 

 borer. 



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