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authors with those of the Continent. This is the more to be 

 regretted as Mr. Wilkinson shows evidence of original 

 thought that could not have been but of the highest value 

 had he consented to forget insular prejudices, and to have 

 produced a Monograph that would not only have added to 

 the knowledge possessed by his countrymen, but have in- 

 structed our continental fellow-labourers. By this time 

 Englishmen should remember that science must be catholic, 

 or it is not worthy the name of science. 



That some one will be found to remove from us the stigma 

 of possessing information, but keeping it to ourselves, I do 

 not doubt. Yet there is earnest need of the advent of a 

 young and thorough- working British Lepidopterist, who 

 will undertake for once and all to enter into friendly rela- 

 tions with the leading men of the various countries of conti- 

 nental Europe. Were my own attention not preoccupied to 

 its fullest extent in another order, I might be induced to act as 

 pioneer to this desirable result, but working at Lepidoptera 

 is to me, to say the least, irksome, and I appeal to some few 

 of the multitude of collectors who possess every qualification 

 for the work, to commence in earnest, and, by interchange 

 of thought and examples with our continental brethren, under- 

 take a thorough revision of the numerous family of Tortrices. 

 Owing to the earnest wish of an esteemed friend, I have 

 lately been in correspondence with Herr von Heinemann M 

 Brunswick, the latest writer on European Tortrices, re- 

 specting the species placed in our lists in the genus Ewpce- 

 cilia, and from this and other sources offer the following 

 information for what it may be worth, premising that I 

 have not worked this limited subject exhaustively, and that 

 I do not intend to follow it up by observations on other 

 genera. 



It is not my intention to offer any remarks on the limits 

 or value of the genus Eiipoecilia, restricting myself simply 



