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for entomologists, by which those using different works may mutually 
understand each other. That was a benevolent office for which the 
originators of synonymic-lists deserve our thanks. All that is left for 
the lists now to do is the miserably different work of displacing names 
on which all are agreed ; or proving the whole worldis wrong and only 
the list-maker right. When it gets to this, itis time that authors of 
synonymic-lists should be declared fuwncii officits. The resurrection- 
men of entomological literature need as prompt a suppression as their 
forerunners in another field of enterprise. 
The straightforward way of putting it is to say that we want no 
new names; and I feel sure that in saying this I shall have the hearty 
support of the English Lepidopterists. If, in the very few cases now 
produceable where different names are in use in different countries, 
our names are wrong, we will give them up; but, after that is done, 
never come to us again with an innovating synonymic-list. We will 
“ draw the line” here. 
If only English Lepidopterists will speak and act up to this 
language, a stop will have been put to a great deal of profitless conten- 
tion, we shall begin to have books instead of catalogues, and entomo- 
logists may take to advancing the science as it is at present, instead of 
“ harking back ” to investigate the period of its infancy. We shall get 
rid of small hero-worship, the stumbling block of the weaklings among 
entomologists; and at the same time be spared Brown’s “new name” 
for wrtice and Diimmer’s next immortal discovery about grosswlariata. 
I have not nearly exhausted the topic, but will not take up more 
space at the present time. I hope to return to the subject again, and 
shall be glad to find, in the meanwhile, that some of your other cor- 
respondents feel an interest in it. 
Temple: May 12th, 1871. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF RUTELIDA. 
BY CHAS. 0. WATERHOUSE. 
PLUSIOTIS MARGINATUS, Sp. Nov. 
Obiongus, ovatus, levis, nitidus, supra viridis, flavo-micans, sub- 
tus viridi-eneus ; clypeo antice rotundato, crebre punctulato, margine 
cupreo; thorace subtiliter punctulato, margine cupreo-micanti ; 
scutello levi ; elytris parce indistincte punctulatis, leviter bistriatis, 
marginibus deflexis, argenteo-wneis, nitidissimis ; metasterno (meso- 
sterno conjuncto) inter coxas intermedias fortiter producto ; labro, 
tibiis extus, tarsorumque articulo quinto purpurascentibus ; anteniis 
Juscis. - 2. Long. lin. 12: lat. lin. 6. 
