1K)4 The Zoologist — February, 1868. 



' Buprestidae' having given them currency, it seems that Laporle and Gory in some 

 cases applied Hope's names to the wrong insects; and it is the species to which the 

 names were thus erroneously applied that are known hy the names which Hope 

 intended for other insects. 



"I suhtnit that the unpublished names of the anonymous print ' Buprestidae' 

 must give way to published names, whatever the date of the latter may be." 



Prof. Westwood argued that Mr. Hope's paper, though privately printed, had in 

 fact been so widely disseminated as to amouiil to publication ; at any rale, that it 

 might be treated as published sub inodo — i.e. as against all persons who had notice of 

 'its existence. 



The Secretary remarked that, if that were so, the Hopeian names would prevail 

 over those of Laporte and Gory ; and as publication must be taken to be notice to all 

 the world, every author subsequent to Laporte and Gory had, through the publication 

 of their Monograph, constructive, if not actual, notice of the existence of Hope's 

 descriptions. But lie thought the ground untenable, and that even as against Laporte 

 and Gory (and a fortiori as against those who had only constructive notice, through 

 them, of the existence of the unpublished paper) the Hopeian names were of no 

 authority. The adoption of them was not obligatory on Laporte and Gory, but was 

 commendably courteous to Mr. Hope. In one instance only had they knowingly 

 rejected Mr. Hope's name, Calodema Kirbii. Upon this Prof. Lacordaire (who 

 probably thought that Hope's descriptions of 1836 were published) had remarked 

 " MM. de Castelnau et Gory ont change a tort le nom de l'espece en celui de Cal. 

 regalis." (Gen. Col. iv. 61). But the reason why Laporte and Gory did not adopt 

 Hope's name was doubtless this, that there was already a Stigmodcra Kirbyi of 

 Guerin, described in the ' Voyage de la Coquille.' Calodema with Laporle and Gory 

 was only a division of Stigmodcra ; when it was recognized as a separate genus, the 

 two names Calodema Kirbii and Stigmodera Kirbyi might have co-existed, if regalis 

 had not been published in the interim. That the publication of Calodema Kirbii, 

 Coleop. Man. ii^. 173, fig. frontisp. (1840), was subsequent to Laporte and Gory's 

 regalis might be seen by reference to the Manual itself. 



The President, Mr. Bales, Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. Pascoe and other members, agreed 

 that accessibility to the public could alone coustilute publication within the meaning 

 of the rule ol priority in nomenclature. 



Papers read. 



The following papers were read by the Secretary: 



"Remarks on Mr. Wallace's Pierids of the Indian aud Australian Regions'"; by 

 Mr. W. C. Hewitson. 



" On the Coffee-borer of Southern Iudia"; by the Rev. G. Richter. (A species of 

 Clytus ; see above). 



"OnBurmeisteria, a new genus of Melolonthida3 > '; by Mr. Frederic Schickeu- 

 dantz. 



New Part of Transactions.' 



Trans. Ent. Soc, third series, Vol. v., part 7, being the sixth part published during 

 the year 1867, was on the table.—/. W. D. 



