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hold under Government : I therefore feel bound to say that 

 these statements are inaccm'ate. 



Mr. Elwes has himself withdrawn his more serious charge, 

 and therefore it is unnecessary for me to disprove it. I have, 

 then, only to answer the following statement (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 p. ii.) : — " He stated that the valuable and accurately named 

 collection of Zeller had been so dealt with that, in his 

 opinion, much of its value was at present lost, owing to the 

 fact that many of the specimens had been removed from 

 their proper places, and mixed up with other species in such 

 a way that no one who was not thoroughly acquainted with 

 the genus could understand what they were." 



First, I shall prove that, in spite of its great value, the 

 Zeller collection is by no means always correctly named, even 

 if Staudinger's Catalogue be regarded as a guide.* 



As it may surprise the Fellows of the Society that, after 

 the lapse of years, it is possible to reproduce (without the 

 possibility of doubt) the exact nomenclature followed by 

 Zeller, I may still further assure them that the Catalogue of 

 the Collection, prepared by order of the Trustees, not only 

 enables anyone who has access to it to do this, but, if 

 necessary, to re-arrange the labelled specimens of any given 

 species in the order which it pleased Zeller to follow in his 

 cabinets. 



To proceed to Zeller s identifications : — 



1. Erebia inanto, Esper, is labelled " Erebia pyrrha, S. V.," 

 which, according to Staudinger, is a synonym, and therefore 

 not the correct name. 



2. Erebia stygyie, Ochs., is labelled " Erebia pyrene, Esp.," 

 which Staudinger regards as a synonym : this, therefore, is 

 again inaccurate. 



3. Erebia ylacialis, Esp., is labelled ^'Erebia alecto, Hb.," 

 which, according to Staudinger, is an aberration and variety 

 — " ab. et v." : one of the examples I consider to be the 

 female of F. le/ebvrei, Bdv. (=^ maurus, Esp. = melas, Hbst., 



* That it cannot always be a safe one may be taken for granted, 

 since much of it is undoubtedly a mere reprint of the work of other 

 authors (the whole arrangement of the extremely heterogeneous group 

 Agrotis is Lederer's). 



PROC. ENT. soc. LOND. II., 1889. D 



