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Coleopterous genus of that name ? Has an insignificant Gele- 

 chiid rendered the Colorado-beetle nameless? I do not know 

 the date at which that part of ' Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands 

 und der Schweiz ' was published, but it cannot be more than 

 about fifteen years since, whereas Illiger's ' Doryphora ' dates 

 from 1807. 



Mr. South has been careful to make the adjectival specific 

 name agree, for the most part, in gender with the specific name. 

 A few cases, however, have escaped his attention. Thus, we 

 ought to have Trochilium apiforme and crabroniforme, Sciopteron 

 tabaniforme (p. 2), Notodonta trilopha (p. 5), Asteroscopus nube- 

 culosus, Heliothis dipsaceus, scatosus, peltiger and armiger (p. 10), 

 Biston hirtarius, Amphidasys stratarius and betularius (p. 12), 

 Bupalus piniarius (p. 14), Platyj)tilia isodactyla, Amblyptilia 

 tceniodactyla, Mimeseoptilus bipunctidactylus (p. 19), Semioscopus 

 avellanellus (p. 28), and Hyponomeuta 20-punctata, &c. (p. 30). 



If Mr. South had been right in his spelling of Chrysocoris 

 (p. 18), that name would have been masculine. But the proper 

 name is Chrysocorys, and it is so spelt by Curtis, both in Ent. 

 Mag., i. 191, and Brit. Ent., pi. 063. 



In forming a Latin word from a Greek root, the Greek ei is 

 represented by the Latin i (not ei) ; but this rule has not been 

 uniformly adhered to. To be consistent, we ought to read 

 Deiopia (p. 3), Chimatobia (p. 14), Lioptilus (p. 19), Idophasia 

 (p. 31), and Telia (p. 33). 



In forming a compound of two Latin words, the letter i is the 

 euphonious and proper connective. Thus, we ought to write 

 costistrigalis (p. 11), rosicolana (p. 23), fasciipennella (p. 35), 

 binotipennella, ardeipennella (p. 36), and emberizipennella (p. 39). 

 Where the compound is formed of two Greek words, the letter o 

 is the proper conjunctive. Thus, we ought to write Phiba- 

 lopteryx (p. 16) and tceniodactyla (p. 19). 



Mr. South is not averse to the correction of misspelt names, 

 and I am glad to welcome him as one of those who think that 

 misprints should not be perpetuated. Even the law of priority 

 has however failed to induce him to adopt Zenzera for Zeuzera 

 (p. 4) ; and Banks, Francillon, Yeates and Geoffroy have still to 

 be content with the truncate honour of bankia, (p. 10) , francillana 

 (p. 28), yeatiana (p. 32), and geoffrella (p. 34). But surely 

 Epiune paralellaria (p* 11) should be parallellaria ; Cnemidophorm 



