3736 Insects. 



Mr. Doubleday, — to use his own expression, — is " particularly 

 unfortunate " in the selection of the two names before alluded to 

 in his voluntary defence of Guenee ; and the typography of the 

 first may show him — irrespective of what may hereafter appear on 

 that point — how readily such mistakes arise and become over- 

 looked, and of the consequent care which should be employed 

 before raising a superstructure upon them. He observes (Zool. 

 3580) that I give in my 'Illustrations* "the hybridata of Hubner 

 as the anomalata of Haworth ; " and then, without noticing my 

 correction of the error of termination in the Mus. Cat., he introdu- 

 ces an episode, concluding with the belief that the name anomala 

 was " first applied to this species (hybridata) in his Catalogue." A 

 collation of the references given to the insect in question in my Syst. 

 Cat. with that emanating from the Brit. Mus. would have shown him 

 that the syllable ta was a typographical error, or lapsus calami rather. 

 In my Syst. Cat. (ii. p. Ill) I refer to "Ph. anomalata: the Anoma- 

 lous: Ent. Trans. {Haworth) i. 336 ;" and in my 111 ustr. from the 

 Syst. Cat. without "the book (the E. T.) before" me to Phy. anoma- 

 lata, Haw., and not to Phalaena anomalata, Haw. (wanting an Eng- 

 lish name), E. T. p. 337 — which last will be found in my S. Cat. ii. 

 p. 141, No. 6622, as a synonyme to Geometra Hippocastanaria, Hub., 

 and in the Mus. Cat. p. 206. It will also appear by my Syst. Cat. ii. 

 Ill, that I refer to Op. ? anomala, (Ing. Ins. 91). The information in 

 the work last cited having been furnished by me to Mr. Ingpen, in 

 1827, and then acknowledged by him. At all events, Guenee might 

 have ascertained the point, since he quotes, as before stated, the ge- 

 nus Ccenobia from p. 134 of my Mus. Cat., and Stilbia anomala ap- 

 pears in p. 133 ! 



Again, had an equally searching examination been made as to the 

 origin of the name applied by me to Nonagria geimWpuncta, it would 

 have been found that Guenee himself has referred to Haworth, 45 (p. 

 176, 1810) as a synonyme to N. paludicola, Hub. (1816) !! 



What therefore becomes of the unfairness charged against me, and 

 attempted to be proved by the three instances in question ? 



Thus far as to the species ; any alleged or real errors of mine on 

 that or other points prove neither for nor against the position I advo- 

 cate ; and I admit that three out of the seven instances referred to 

 (Zool. 3581) as " abrogations of the law," are so, and have long since 

 been corrected in my copy of the ' Catalogue ; ' the other Haworthian 

 names having been previously used, except perhaps the last [marga- 

 ritana), — though not shown in a local Catalogue; but Hiibner and 



