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if the insects are kept fresh they are easily removed. It is a good tip to 

 remember that a butterfly removed from the killing bottle within a few hours 

 of death and found stiff will generally be found relaxed after twenty-four 

 hours in the bottle ; some butterflies, Terias for instance, have been known to 

 change colour if kept too long in bottle. 



N. MANDERS, Lt.-Col., f.z.s., f.e.s., &c. 

 Mauritius, August 1906. 



[Colonel Manders will no doubt expect some rejoinder from me to his rather 

 scathing criticism, but I confess I am quite at a loss to understand his 

 reason for bringing up all this heavy artillery to bear on the sentence of mine 

 which he quotes. All I stated was that a popular article was not the proper 

 place for a scientific discussion as to the relative claims of two names for one 

 species, whether a change was proposed in consideration of the law of priority 

 or any other. 



I cannot believe that Colonel Manders really disagrees with me in such a 

 contention and must only suppose that he misunderstood my meaning. 



As to the wholesale changes he accuses me of introducing into Indian 

 nomenclature I would like to know what they are. 



The only specific name that I have used so far — and almost the only one that 

 I intend to use — in this series which differs from those used by de Niceville 

 is the substitution of A. hyberbius, Johan. for A. niphe, L. 



In doing so I am only following Mr. Moore and Colonel Bingham, whose 

 writings out of those named by Colonel Manders are the most easily accessible 

 to Indian readers, and I have no doubt that had the synonomy been demon- 

 strated at the time de Niceville wrote, he would have accepted it also. 



It was in fact remarks made to me as to this change which led me to write 

 the passage cited. 



In the only other article on the subject of nomenclature which I have con- 

 tributed to this or any other periodical in India — I mean the list of the Society's 

 collection that was printed two or three years ago— I do not think, speaking 

 from memory, that I made half a-dozen changes on the score of the law of 

 priority and not one of them as the result of my own researches. 



In truth I take very little interest in the interminable and often futile 

 discussions on the subject of the law of priority in the scientific Journals of 

 the day, and have never adopted any synonomy which has not been accepted 

 by many others besides myself. 



I am aware of course that, in the catalogue referred to, I frequently 

 amalgamated a number of forms which have been at various times separately 

 described and named but which I did not think worthy of specific rank, and 

 though of course we may differ in details here and there — and in the light of 

 subsequent experience I might myself be disposed to alter my own opinion in a 

 few cases — the majority of Indian Collectors whom I have been able to consult 

 agree with me in so doing. However since Colonel Manders has not attacked 



