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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
of the “ Accentuated list ” from 
“ Nascor.” We should feel obliged 
to any one who would show us a 
classical precedent for such a form, 
or any possible meaning in the appli- 
cation of the word to cilialis. 
But one of the finest names we 
have is Par ap onyx which the “ Ac- 
centuated List ” makes to signify 
“ like the onyx ” totally disregarding 
the middle part of the word. Para- 
poynx however, says Prof. Zeller was 
the original form. This is out of the 
frying pan into the fire, in our opinion. 
If any of our readers can derive the 
word so spelt, we shall be most 
happy to hear from them. We have 
other complaints, however, about 
the names of insects which are 
scarcely less serious. No uniformity 
is preserved in the manner of naming 
the family from the typical genus. 
For instance, we have Bilionidce from 
Bibio and Curculionidce from Curculio, 
hut Chilidce instead of Chilonidce 
from Chilo. 
But if there be no grammatical or 
orthographical objection to a scien- 
tific name how utterly senseless and 
absurd is the meaning (if meaning it 
has) in many cases. For instance, 
Himera, a town in Sicily, Lycccna, 
a she- wolf, Nola, a town in Cam- 
pania, Bp tone, the wife of AEsculapius 
Chariclca from Charicles, one of the 
Thirty Tyrants, Theda, a Martyr, 
Venusia, Horace’s birth-place, Collix, 
a long roll of coarse bread, — of course 
we might continue such a list indefi- 
nitely. 
Seeing then that our lists are such 
a mass of barbarism and absurdity, 
and that they are past all alteration, 
let us be content to be barbarous, 
and absurd too, so long as we make 
our names serve the cause of science. 
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