344, Mr. W. Arnold Lewis on 
editor. This list follows the ‘ Manual,” with many 
emendations of nomenclature, and a few suggestions for 
alteration of the order. Perhaps it may be considered 
that it did not lie with Dr. Knaggs, reproducing another 
man’s work, to justify it; but at all events, the new things 
in the “ Cabinet List’? demanded some explanation. 
The Nolide are included by Stainton (in the Manual) 
among the Pyralidina. Doubleday puts them with the 
Nocturni; Dr. Knaggs gives up the Nolide, and ‘‘recom- 
mends” their insertion amongst the Bombyces (Cabinet 
List, pp. 3, 11). He is careful not to state any reason 
at all, for the conveyance of this family across the 
dead bodies of seven hundred species, and the unlearned 
entomologist is left to think himself very stupid that he 
does not see it all quite clearly. Now, if the ‘ Manual” 
order is so good, that it is proper to produce it anew 
after a lapse of twelve years, what obvious and crying 
error was made in the classification of Nolidw, that Mr. 
Stainton’s readers must blush to observe his arrangement 
any longer? The Nolide are by Westwood (Introd. to 
Mod. Class. vol. 1. p. 401) also classed with the Pyrales, 
but said to be allied to the Vortrices, and reasons for the 
opinion are given, drawn from the wings of the imago, 
and the cocoon. ‘They are also classed with the Pyrales 
by Haworth, by Stephens, and by Curtis, the last-named 
of whom also notices their affinity to Yortriz. But 
Doubleday’s List places the Nolide in the Nocturni, and 
Dr. Staudinger’s also (in the family Lithoside). No 
reasons are given, and Dr. Knagegs politely “advises ” 
that this should be their position. 
It is of importance to recollect that Dr. Knagegs’ List 
is published as a labelling list; and of the new practice of 
“advising” and “recommending” changes in a publica- 
tion of this class, I shall have a few words to say before 
the conclusion of this paper. 
Dr. Knaggs’ List gives some other pieces of advice. 
It “recommends” that Aventia be placed in the Noctue 
after Toxocampa, and that the Pterophori come after Nom- 
ophila in the Pyrales! As to Aventia, I suppose anyone 
may express an opinion without its doimg much harm, as 
the genus has long been treated as an outcast. The new 
arrangement makes it, as we have seen, a group by itself 
(placed between the Deltoides and Pyralis) an enterprising 
course at all events; Staudinger (another list writer) 
