2892 THE ZooLocist—Janvuary, 1872. 
appellations terminate in ides, ide or ine. But this granted and 
admitted to be unimportant, there are other discrepancies to which 
it is obvious that attention must be invited. Herrich-Scheffer 
makes a binary division of butterflies, quite as important as that of 
Lepidoptera into butterflies and moths: Mr. Kirby ignores this 
division, and proposes one entirely different—namely, the division 
of butterflies into five equivalent groups: this idea neither is, nor 
professes to be, original on Mr. Kirby’s part, but whether original 
or merely adopted it is diametrically at variance with Herrich- 
Scheeffer’s and my own. And here it must be observed that Herrich- 
Scheeffer’s differs from my own in one important feature: in his 
eighth family, Equitides, he includes genera belonging to each of 
my primary groups, and which, so far as I know, have no natural 
characters in common. I allude to Papilio and Doritis. Of course 
having arrived at so different a conclusion, after much deliberation, 
I cannot be expected to agree with Mr. Kirby here. 
Then, with regard to Mr. Kirby’s families—his first family is one 
which has received the sanction of almost every lepidopterist of 
modern times: it exactly corresponds with Boisduval’s and my 
own Section, Suspensi, and its subfamilies correspond with Bois- 
duval’s tribes almost rigidly, in the following manner :— 
Kirby’s NyMeHALID&. Boisdwval’s SusPEnst. 
Subf. i. Danaine == Tribe vii. Danaides 
» li. Satyrine ——— » Xi. Satyrides 
» i. Elymniine = », xiil. Biblides 
» iv. Morphine = » xi. Morphides 
» Y. Brassolinee = a x. Brassolides 
» vi. Heliconinse = », Vili. Heliconides 
» vil. Nymphaline = » ix. Nymphalides 
I can see no sufficient reason for changing the name Biblides 
into Elymniine: I fancy also there is a disadvantage in altering 
the termination, and I must protest most emphatically against 
combining in one subfamily the, slug-shaped larve of Apatura and 
the spiny larvee of Vanessa: if, as 1 conceive, it be a first principle 
to consider as paramount the differences of larva in systems pro- 
fessing to be natural, then it is an abandonment of first principles 
to combine and intermingle genera having larve so decidedly 
different. 
The second family, Lemoniide, Mr. Kirby gives as synonymous 
