/J60 HALIDAY ON 



August, 1832. As the genera there characterized for the first 

 time appeared to me, with two or three exceptions, to be 

 identical with those I had adopted from Mr. Curtis's Guide, 

 and under his names, to avoid the inconvenience of conflicting 

 nomenclature, it became necessary hastily to review these 

 sheets, and to substitute Mr. Westwood's names in their right 

 of priority.a The elegant conciseness and distinctness of his 

 generic characters facihtated this task ; and I believe I have 

 succeeded in applying them correcdy in general. An abrupt 

 descent from the family to the ultimate generic subdivision, 

 renders it difficult in all cases to combine brevity with certainty 

 (unless by embodying the divisional characters in the generic, 

 an object not easily effected while the divisions themselves are 

 overleaped) ; accordingly, in one or two instances where no 

 particular indication of affinities was supplied, I had to rest in 

 doubt. The examples given with the tabular view were an 

 after- thought, and added without an opportunity of consulting 

 my cabinet, or any book of reference ; but I believe no mate- 

 rial errors have crept in. 



Yours, &c. 



Alex. Henry Haliday. 



Dublin, November, 18.32. 



' There is nothing in science for which we feel a more sovereign contempt, 

 and think more utterly at variance with all proper and gentlemanly feeling, more 

 decidedly indicative of poverty of resource, than the plan here alluded to, of appro- 

 priating and superseding the labours of other authors. Had we, instead of Mr. 

 Haliday, been the author thus robbed of our hard-earned property, we hope and 

 trust we should have had the fortitude to have borne the matter as he has done : 

 he has proved himself not merely the gentleman, but the philosopher and chris- 

 tian. We are not, however, a party concerned ; and the performance of our 

 duty as Editor of an Entomological Magazine demands from us the undisguised 

 expression of our most decided disapprobation of all such transactions. We 

 noticed Mr, Westwood's paper at p. 85 ; we received it when our first number 

 was in the press, and were not then aware of its nature. — Ed. 



