136 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Scy~LaRus ARcTUS OFF PrnzaNnce.—Scyllarus arctus has again been 
taken in this bay by a trawler, and brought to me alive. There can be no 
doubt that this very rare British crustacean is fairly common in our western 
seas. I now have received some dozen or more specimens,—some alive, 
some dead, and one in berry; and several have been taken off Plymouth. 
This particular specimen fell to my lot through the kindness of Miss 
Tyacke, our well-known conchologist.—T. Cornisu (Penzance). 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Linnean Society or Lonpon. 
February 21, 1878.—W. Carruruers, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in 
the chair. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected Fellows 
of the Society:—Dr. Hance, of China; Mr. Edward Milner, 32, New 
Cavendish Street, W.; Dr. George Shearer, 57, Upper Parliament Street, 
Liverpool; and the Rey. Robert Boog Watson, B.A., 3, Bruntsfield Place 
Edinburgh. 
Among exhibitions of specimens and remarks thereon were—examples 
of Spongilla Carteri, by Mr. E. Lockwood; a remarkable oak gall of — 
Aphilothrix Sieboldii (Hart.), obtained at Willesboro’ Leas, Ashford, by 
Mr. E. M. Holmes, of the Pharmaceutical Society; and several other 
botanical rarities. 
The only zoological paper read was “ On the Butterflies in the Collection 
of the British Museum hitherto referred to the Genus Huplea of Fabricius,’ 
by Mr. A. G. Butler. The author states that in his monograph in the 
‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ (1866), he himself had split up the 
genus in question somewhat arbitrarily, overlooking the fact that several 
natural genera existed. He now further criticises Mr. Scudder’s paper 
“On the Generic Names proposed for Butterflies.” He observes that 
Mr. Scudder in his revision frequently supersedes a name long in use by 
the resuscitation of a partial synonym. For example, Kuplea is discarded 
in favour of a name applied to two only of its species. This Mr. Butler 
deprecates, on the ground that it is not a help, but a hindrance, to the 
advancement of Science; as also the fact that Mr. Scudder ignores the 
rule of the British Association respecting the uses of the terminations ida 
and ine for families and subfamilies. Mr. Butler, in emendation of his own 
former work, proposes, to adopt the genus Salpina and Trepsichoris of 
Hiibner, to fix the limits of his genus Cadliplwa, and to add a genus for the 
