3738 Insects. 



(thirty -two years ago), drawn up by myself, almost identical, so far as 

 the groups are concerned, with the one recently published ! And as 

 regards the second point, the following statistics will test whether the 

 detraction be true or not : — 



British, or Named 



reputed Synonymes, 



British Species. about 



In GueneVs ' Catalogue of Tortrices ' are 235 545 



Added in Doubleday's < List/ 35 187* 



270 732 



Added in Mus. Cat 73 ....... 674 



Total 343 1406 



As the conclusions to be drawn from these tables are so self-evident, 

 I shall merely observe that I was occupied, and sedulously too, for 

 nearly six months in working up the Tortricidae, and above three years 

 in completing the former Catalogue : — that during this period I col- 

 lated every reference, with but few exceptions, as indicated in the list 

 of books quoted ; — and arranged the Brit. Mus. and my own collec- 

 tions to accord therewith, introducing with the last every name, whe- 

 ther generic, subgeneric, specific, sexual or synonymical, so as to 

 identify, as far as practicable, the type of each species, sex and vari- 

 ety intended by the respective authors : that in addition to gratui- 

 tously arranging the Brit. Mus. collection, I gave the MSS. of my Ca- 

 talogue to the Trustees, and superintended their progress through the 

 press, for which services they directed a special letter of thanks to be 

 sent to me, expressive of " their sense of the liberality and zeal evin- 

 ced in gratuitously undertaking the works," of which they requested 

 I would " be pleased to accept fifty copies, as well as a complete set 

 of their Zoological Catalogues." My experience teaches me that few- 

 persons would voluntarily have devoted so long a period of exertion, 

 at considerable expense and inconvenience, my residence being nearly 

 four miles from the Museum, to the public, and but for the attempted 

 detraction I should not have alluded thereto, as it was truly "a labour 

 of love." 



Towards the end of the " Notes," Mr. Doubleday says, " With very 

 few exceptions, Mr. Stephens has adopted my views as to species and 

 &c. An undeniable fact ; arising from a three-fold cause. 



* Most of these in my Syst. Cat. 



