3734 Insects. 



and can never be remedied by the system now attempted to be carried 

 out ; as any person conversant with zoological literature may readily 

 perceive. 



Again, had I chosen any other vehicle (the ' Zoologist,' for exam- 

 ple) than that to which they naturally formed an appendage, my re- 

 marks might have been considered uncalled for ; as it appears " the 

 head and front " of my offence is based upon the fact of their having 

 been introduced into a work — the nomenclature of which I was defend- 

 ing — "published by authority ; " the interests of science being consi- 

 dered of minor importance ! 



I only received Guenee's work at the time when the Introduction 

 was actually in type (to the extent originally proposed, namely, so far 

 as the remarks on the Tortricidae alone), and would have been worked 

 off, but for an accidental delay, as your office books, Mr. Editor, can 

 corroborate. But having noticed, during the process of cutting open 

 the volumes, several generic names, familiar to me " as household 

 words," applied to new genera, and various changes in the nomencla- 

 ture of our indigenous species, as well as the wholesale alteration of 

 the twenty-one doubly-employed names, in p. 199, vol. hi. ; I availed 

 myself of the delay in the printing, and determined to add to my In- 

 troduction, for the reason therein stated (p. viii.), that is, as " bearing 

 upon the point under discussion:" and I feel assured that any reflect- 

 ing person will allow, that I have not exceeded the legitimate bounds 

 of propriety in so doing ; for I certainly possess as much right to op- 

 pose what seem to me incorrect views, as others have to propose them, 

 without being accused of unfairness in so doing : — and this right 

 Mr. Doubleday has not failed to exercise, by adding some strictures 

 on my ' Illustrations ' to his " Notes." 



Time was pressing ; and I proceeded, with perhaps too much haste 

 for minute accuracy, as it appears I made an error in omitting to ob- 

 serve the ? after the reference to [Phytometra] rufa, — which stands thus 

 in Guenee's book, " = rufa Haw. Phyt. 16 ? " — the ? in the type em- 

 ployed being so like the figure 2, as to be readily overlooked — and 

 called it Noctua rufa, Haw. (This species I prefixed to the number 

 of examples, because Guenee had referred, four lines above, to my 

 genus Coanobia in the * Museum Catalogue,' and the references there 

 given would have supplied him with the dates, figures, &c, of the in- 

 sect : two of my specimens of which were taken in company with 

 Haworth's originals. I selected, at hazard, several other names also, 

 although it would appear by the " Notes " that two only were brought 



