9002 Insects. 
were a fault. I am perfectly aware that it is the desire of many natu- 
ralists in this country to establish an “insular” nomenclature and 
arrangement entirely different from that in use on the Continent. 
I have often heard my friend Doubleday’s arrangement of Lepidoptera 
condemned as “ foreign,” and so is my own arrangement and nomen- 
clature of ferns. I totally repudiate all such feelings, and if I find a 
Guenée exhibiting a more profound knowledge of his subject than a 
Stephens, a Presl than a Smith, I adopt their views without any 
reference to their country. 
Guenée and Presl, like Linneus and Cuvier, wrote for the world, 
why should we write exclusively for England? why should we 
reckon it a disparagement being “foreign”? Then, on the 
exclusion of Stylops I have a very strong opinion: I would as 
soon exclude Lucanus Cervus: yet Mr. Rye seems to approve 
this course, and rather to smile at its introduction by Mr. 
Crotch. I cannot deny myself the pleasure of expressing my ad- 
miration of, and gratitude for, Mr. Rye’s most able and carefully 
worked-out paper in this year’s ‘ Annual’; it is the most entomological 
paper we have ever had in that periodical; but it is impossible to 
extend this praise to his criticisms of Mr. Crotch, which are hasty, 
ill-considered, and, I am sorry to add, seem scarcely to be dictated 
by that zeal for Science which characterizes everything he had 
previously written. I have only to add that, after Mr. Rye’s reply, 
the subject must be dropped, unless as regards any mere matter 
of fact, and I therefore beg of him not to import new matter into the 
discussion.—Edward Neteman.] 
Mr. G. R. Crotch, of Weston-super-Mare, and St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, well known as an energetic and successful worker, who 
has done (and will, I hope, continue to do) good service by his personal 
communications with European coleopterists, and to whom English 
entomologists are, or ought to be, much obliged for the research and 
rapidity which he employs in investigating changes of nomenclature, 
has recently published a Catalogue of British Coleoptera, with an idea 
of establishing the continental system among us. 
When I remark that in this Catalogue it is the exception, and not 
the rule, for any species to remain unaltered, either in position, value, 
name or parentage, it will be at once seen that the limited space at my 
disposal, combined with the recent date of publication of the work in’ 
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