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Olcagiua, which no one living has j 

 taken in this country, is called the ! 

 " Green Brindled Dot." We wonder j 

 if any one ever called it so. Then ! 

 there are quakers and rustics, and j 

 shoulder knots, and brocades, and j 

 brindles, and wainscots, till one gets j 

 lost iii confusion, for it is not as if all | 

 one genus were called by one name, 

 and all of another by something else. 

 Newman has twenty-one wainscots in 

 ten different genera. One insect that 

 we have heard called the " Bright-eye 

 wainscot (Leucania conigera) he calls 

 " Brown-line Bright-eye," and to make 

 the confusion greater, Hadena oleracea 

 is called the " Bright-eye Brown-line." 

 A well-known butterfly Aporia Cratwgi 

 is called " The Black Veined," which is 

 quite an appropriate name, but then 

 Scoria dealbata is called " The Black 

 Veined " with equal propriety, and who 

 knows which is which. But besides all 

 this confusion and difficulty arising 

 from the use of English names, there 

 are other reasons of greater weight 

 against their use. The name that may 

 be common and well-known in one part 

 of the country is replaced by something- 

 else in another place. Newman calls 

 Acronycta rumicis " The knot grass." 

 Morris calls it " The Bramble." We 

 have heard it called " The pepper," and 

 who could tell what was meant if one 

 of these names was used in a letter to 

 a part of the country where the use of 

 another obtained. And if this argu- 

 ment holds good in our own country, 

 how much more forcible does it become 

 when we get out of our own island, 



and into communication with Entomo- 

 logists, to whom English is as much 

 an unknown tongue as that of the 

 inhabitants of St. Luke. Will our 

 young friends then try to learn the 

 proper names as they go along. We 

 often think it is rather a pity that 

 birds and animals and most of plants 

 have had common names given them, 

 which are printed in scientific manuals 

 along with others. In the case of 

 butterflies and moths the same thing 

 as been done more than once with 

 reference to the larger species, but on 

 our forthcoming papers on British 

 Butterflies we only intend to use such 

 common names as are really in uni- 

 versal use, and these we use under 

 protest, advising all those who would 

 be Entomologists, to ignore the English 

 names, and use only the scientific 

 ones. 



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