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maintained ; there were no less than four 
attempts at a “ count out” ! And yet we 
express our surprise at the proceedings of 
the American legislature ! 
Lord Stanley spoke with his usual good 
sense, and suggested, as the motion was 
at present too vaguely worded, it would 
he better for Mr. Heywood to consult 
eminent scientific men as to the nature of 
the Government patronage they desired 
and then, having digested the subject, 
to reintroduce it to Parliament next 
session. 
Lord Palmerston was jocose in alluding 
to the working of corporate bodies in re- 
ference to intellectual pursuits, as, he 
observed, “ diversities of opinion sprang 
up among them, which frequently ope- 
rated injuriously rather than benefi- 
cially.” 
Any one would fancy Lord Palmer- 
ston had been behind the scenes in 
entomological circles. 
Porrectaria versus Culeophora . — I am 
quite aware that Haworth’s genus Por- 
rectaria included some insects which have 
subsequently been detached and formed 
into the genus Bulalis ; but that is no 
reason why Haworth’s name should be 
thrown aside : if it were, there is scarcely 
a single Linnean or Pabrician generic 
name which could be retained ; in fact, 
to carry the principle out, the separation 
of a single species would necessarily sink 
any genus. This would be so great an 
inconvenience that it is not to be sup- 
posed that zoological nomenclaturists 
have not foreseen and provided against 
the difficulty. We have, in all such 
cases, to ascertain, if possible, what was 
the intention of the original proposer of 
a genus, and to discover what was his 
type ; and if no express type has been 
mentioned, the general rule is to select 
the species which he placed at the head 
of his genus, and regard that as his type. 
In Porrectaria, however, no such diffi- 
culty exists, Haworth having clearly 
enough indicated what he meant to con- 
sider as the type of his genus, — namely, 
those narrow-winged Tineae which sit 
with their antennae porrected in a straight 
line before them, the base of those organs 
scaly, the larvae enclosed in a moveable 
case, and the pupae with the wing and 
leg-cases extending beyond the extremity 
of the body. Such are his characters; 
so there is no question that the insects 
he had in view were the Coleophora of 
German and modern English Micro- 
Lepidopterists. In such cases, I repeat, 
that the name of Porrectaria ought to be 
retained, and I have no doubt that if the 
proposer of the Coleophora had been ac- 
quainted with the writings of Haworth 
he would have adopted Haworth’s name. 
• — J. O. Westwood, Hammersmith; 
June 1856. 
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