350 Rev. F. D. Morice and J. H. Diirrant on the 



year, probably having then not thoroughly assimilated the 

 substance of Fabricius's new proposals, he had done his 

 best to popularise at least one Jurinean Generic name, for 

 which Fabricius was now proposing another; {d) because 

 Jurine was a friend whom he admired, to whom he was 

 under great obligations, which he had tried to repay bv 

 doing all that he could to get Jurine's views a hearing from 

 the " entomological public " ; and he naturally did not 

 wish to withdraw from his support of Jurine, if he could 

 support him without rebelling against Fabricius. 



It would require a very long and minute examination of 

 the Krit. Rev. Vol. 2 to discover exactly how far Panzer 

 succeeds in reconciling these conflicting motives, and 

 carrying out the comphcated programme which he has 

 set himself, in this, his first attempt to come before the 

 public in the character of a systematist. 



It may be said, however, at once, that the Revision is 

 a book in which it is often difficult to realise what are the 

 author's own views, or whether he has any view of his own 

 at all, on the merits of the nomenclature which he is dis- 

 cussing. The book is made also very puzzling by the 

 author's eccentric way of quoting synonyms. First, in 

 capitals, he gives the names which are to be sunk, and 

 afterwards, in small italics, those which he intends to be 

 adopted — thus exactly reversing the usual habit of authors ! 

 As a sort of Key to the scattered Figures, etc., of Fn. Ins. 

 Germ, and a definition — such as it is — of the Fabrician, 

 and a few of the Jurinean Genera, the book was probably 

 more or less helpful to the German collectors for whom 

 the Fn. Ins. Germ, had been intended. But it con- 

 tributes absolutely nothing that can be called original 

 to the systematics of its subject. At that we may leave 

 it, adding only (if anything need be added) that the 

 book is printed and generally " got up " in a very odd 

 and as it were amateurish style, which reminds us that 

 it appeared when the publishing and printing trade 

 at Nuremberg was being conducted under disturbing 

 circumstances, for it was in this same year that Napoleon 

 was terrorising the Nuremberg booksellers, shooting one 

 (Palm), and driving others to hide themselves, because a 

 pamphlet had appeared there, of which he disapproved. 

 Although we may be blamed for importing into a question 

 of entomological nomenclature so much of matter which 

 may be thought extraneous and inadmissible as " not 



