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nomenclature for our time at any rate. I regret I have not the same con- 

 fidence in Mr. Young as he has in himself, and if I may judge by what has 

 happened and is happening to the British butterflies at the hands of men with 

 all Mr. Young's acumen and powers of research, I am not at all satisfied that his 

 nomenclature will be final, but rather the beginning of a series of revisions 

 which will land us in the same bog as that in which English butterfly collect- 

 ors are still struggling. 



I agree with Mr. Young so far that our nomenclature requires revision, but 

 only to a limited extent, and I would suggest that a committee of members 

 of the Society be formed to settle the names of our Indian butterflies once and 

 for all, taking as the basis for their labours the works of Kirby, Moore, 

 de Niceville and Bingham. The result should be looked upon by the members 



of the Society as final, and by this 

 means check will be put on the efforts 

 of zealous but incompetent reformers. 



I should like to take this opportunity 

 of describing a method of setting insects 

 which differs materially from Mr. 

 Young's, and I wish to do so not because 

 I have personal predilection in its 

 favour but because as it is the method 

 adopted by professional setters, by the 

 Natural History Museum, South Ken- 

 sington, and by the majority of the 

 possessors of extensive collections, such 

 as .Rothschild, G-odman, Elwes and 

 others, it may be considered the best. 

 It was shown me many yeai'3 ago by 

 Mr. Elwes. 



The setting boards are the ordinary 

 fiat boards for continental setting shown 

 in Mr. Young's woodcut ; they can be 

 obtained from any dealer in entomolo- 

 gical apparatus. Long continental pins 

 are used for the very purpose Mr. 

 Young condemns them, namely, that 

 the label beneath may be easily read 

 and that there should be a sufficient 

 length of pin above the thorax to 

 . enable the insect to be held by the 

 fingers if forceps are not available. The 

 pin being passed through the thorax in 

 the usual way is pushed through the 

 cork in the groove until the point just 



