﻿of 
  Douhledaya 
  Viator. 
  3 
  

  

  Company, 
  and 
  was 
  kindly 
  lent 
  me 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Horsfield. 
  The 
  head 
  

   and 
  thorax 
  are 
  highly 
  polished 
  and 
  ferruginous, 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  of 
  

   a 
  pale 
  ochreous 
  red, 
  and 
  have 
  from 
  eight 
  to 
  nine 
  thickly 
  punc- 
  

   tured, 
  longitudinal, 
  parallel 
  striae, 
  some 
  of 
  them 
  joined 
  near 
  the 
  

   apex. 
  The 
  antenna 
  and 
  legs 
  are 
  blackish 
  and 
  smooth, 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

   being 
  furnished 
  with 
  some 
  silky 
  hairs 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  soles 
  are 
  

   of 
  a 
  lively 
  yellow. 
  The 
  under 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  is 
  ferruginous. 
  

   The 
  figure 
  is 
  carefully 
  drawn 
  on 
  wood 
  by 
  Mr. 
  William 
  Wing, 
  and 
  

   engraved 
  by 
  Miss 
  E. 
  Bridges. 
  Fig. 
  2 
  represents 
  the 
  profile 
  of 
  the 
  

   insect 
  of 
  the 
  natural 
  size. 
  

  

  This 
  singular 
  insect 
  is 
  named 
  after 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  Edward 
  

   Doubleday, 
  Secretary 
  of 
  this 
  Society, 
  whose 
  collections 
  of 
  insects 
  

   in 
  North 
  America 
  were 
  about 
  equally 
  rich 
  in 
  all 
  departments 
  ; 
  

   for 
  his 
  mind 
  was 
  not 
  content 
  with 
  running 
  in 
  one 
  channel, 
  however 
  

   wide. 
  Although 
  at 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  he 
  limited 
  himself 
  chiefly 
  

   to 
  the 
  arrangement 
  of 
  Lepidoptera, 
  his 
  knowledge 
  of 
  other 
  de- 
  

   partments 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  was 
  far 
  from 
  restricted, 
  and 
  the 
  

   general 
  collection 
  of 
  Languriaclce 
  contains 
  at 
  least 
  one 
  species* 
  

   collected 
  during 
  his 
  travels 
  in 
  North 
  America. 
  This 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  

   place 
  to 
  eulogize 
  one, 
  whose 
  monument 
  will 
  be 
  — 
  " 
  The 
  Genera 
  

   of 
  Diurnal 
  Lepidoptera." 
  The 
  memory 
  of 
  his 
  many 
  virtues 
  and 
  

   ever 
  ready 
  assistance 
  with 
  heart, 
  head 
  and 
  hand, 
  cannot 
  ever 
  be 
  for- 
  

   gotten 
  by 
  those 
  who 
  saw 
  and 
  experienced 
  them. 
  Capt. 
  Smyth, 
  late 
  

   President 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Geographical 
  Society, 
  at 
  the 
  annual 
  address 
  

   to 
  that 
  Society, 
  alluded 
  in 
  a 
  pleasing 
  way 
  to 
  Mr. 
  Doubleday's 
  

   general 
  geographical 
  information. 
  In 
  matters 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  he 
  took 
  a 
  special 
  interest. 
  Mr. 
  Bennett's 
  account 
  

   of 
  our 
  late 
  secretary, 
  read 
  at 
  the 
  anniversary 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Lin- 
  

   nean 
  Society, 
  gives 
  a 
  very 
  good 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  labours. 
  The 
  

   portrait 
  of 
  him, 
  publislied 
  by 
  the 
  Ipswich 
  Society, 
  and 
  lithographed 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Maguire 
  from 
  a 
  Daguerrotype 
  by 
  his 
  friend 
  Mr. 
  Bower- 
  

   bank, 
  will 
  recall 
  his 
  intelligent 
  and 
  manly 
  expression 
  to 
  his 
  

   friends, 
  while 
  the 
  profile 
  medallion 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Bernhard 
  Smith, 
  of 
  

   Foley 
  Place, 
  is 
  "likeness 
  itself" 
  Mr. 
  Ford 
  made 
  an 
  able 
  litho- 
  

   graph 
  from 
  this 
  medallion. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  objected, 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  contrary 
  to 
  the 
  Linnean 
  canon 
  to 
  

   name 
  genera 
  of 
  insects 
  after 
  entomologists; 
  but 
  there 
  can 
  surely 
  

   be 
  no 
  more 
  reason 
  for 
  calling 
  a 
  showy 
  or 
  singular 
  plant 
  after 
  a 
  

   botanist, 
  than 
  a 
  curious 
  or 
  fine 
  insect 
  after 
  one 
  who 
  loved 
  to 
  

   study 
  them. 
  It 
  would 
  be 
  well, 
  however, 
  if 
  zoologists 
  and 
  bota- 
  

   ists 
  would 
  follow 
  Mr. 
  Westwood's 
  plan 
  in 
  naming 
  Erichsonia, 
  and 
  

   not 
  use 
  the 
  privilege 
  till 
  the 
  naturalist 
  was 
  dead. 
  

  

  * 
  L. 
  bicolor 
  (Fabr.) 
  Say. 
  Amer. 
  Ent. 
  t. 
  39, 
  lower 
  fig. 
  (Ohio.) 
  

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