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TABLE SHOWING THE CHANGES OF NOMENCLATURE, 

 &c, FROM DOUBLEDAY'S LIST, MADE IN THE 

 'ENTOMOLOGIST' SYNONYMIC LIST OF BRITISH 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



To save the time of our readers, and to assist them in the 

 use of ' The Entomologist Synonymic List of British Lepi- 

 doptera,' I have made out an alphabetical list of the changes 

 from Doubleday's List. 



In the first column will be found the Doubleday names, 

 placed alphabetically ; in the second column, their equivalents 

 in the new List, the figures denoting the page where the name 

 in question may be found. In both columns the species are set 

 back, and the genera, families, &c, set slightly forward. A 

 genus in the second column, opposite a species in the first 

 column, means that the name of the genus is changed, but not 

 that of the species. A species, in the second column, followed 

 by a genus (in parenthesis), signifies that both specific and 

 generic names are changed. A Doubleday genus split up into 

 several genera appears as in Botys and Geleclda. 



The remaining columns are reversed, the first column giving 

 the ' Entomologist ' List names placed alphabetically, and the 

 second column their Doubleday equivalents : (pt.) after a genus 

 means that it is one of the genera into which the Doubleday 

 genus has been divided, or in other words that it is a "part" 

 only of the Doubleday genus. Species of which the genus only 

 is changed are omitted from these reversed columns, and hence 

 the difference in length. 



I trust the labour expended upon the alphabetical arrange- 

 ments of these changes will minimise the inconvenience our 

 readers will naturally at first feel in adopting a nomenclature 

 for our Lepidoptera which I believe will remain permanently 

 in use. 



The additions to the British fauna since the publication of 

 Doubleday's List and Supplements are not included below. 



John T. Carrington. 



November, 1884. 



ENTOM. — DEC, 1884. 2p 



