THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 257.] SATUEDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1861. [Price Id. 
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AFTER THE CLOSE OF 
THE PRESENT VOLUME. 
ARRANGEMENT. 
The impossibility of inducing all to 
accept equally the same precise articles 
of faith is a fact which is self-evident 
to naturalists in all that appertains to 
classification and arrangement. Yet 
just as we frequently find that an aged 
divine will be more disposed to look 
leniently on differences of opinion in 
religious matters, he halting, probably 
by dint of long-living, himself gone 
through various phases of faith, so may 
we expect that the naturalist of ad- 
vanced years will be likewise more 
liberal in his notions, more willing to 
admit of an inconformity of classifica- 
tion, and to exclaim with a charitable 
expression of countenance, •“ Arrange- 
ment does not so much matter, after 
all.” 
The young, with the impatience 
and arbitrariness natural to youth, are 
for having one uniform «ystem uni- 
versally adopted, an impossibility the 
demand for which only proves their 
own ignorance and their own utter in- 
competence to legislate on matters they 
so little understand. 
We continually meet with new sys- 
tems and new modes of arrangement. 
A Catalogue of European Lepi- 
doptera, now in the press, which pro- 
mises to be a most useful one, will 
shortly be published; it is from the 
pens of Dr. Staudinger and Dr. Wocke. 
In it will be found enumerated, with 
synonyms — 
392 Rhopalocera, v 
179 Sphinges, ' 
318 Bombyces, 
975 Noctuae, 
719 Geo^etrae, &c., &c. 
The Bombyces are headed by Sarro- 
thripa revayana, Earias vcrnana and 
clorana, Hylophila prasinana and quer- 
^cana, and the genus Nola, and con- 
clude with two genera which have 
hitherto been placed amongst the Noc- 
tuse, viz. Thyatira and Cymatophora. 
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