I 
THE 
WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
<c ENTOMA QUIDQUID AGUNT NOSTRI EST FARRAGO L1BELLI.” 
No. 33.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ‘>6, 1863. IPeioi 2A 
GENERA AND SPECIES OP THE GRAM- 
BIDS AND CHILQNID2S. 
From the Latin of Prof. P. C. 
Zeller. 
TTEE have been much pleased, 
’ ' lately, by a work bearing the 
above title. Mr. E. M. Geldart has 
requested us to publish some extracts, 
which he has forwarded to us ; and 
we have great pleasure in laying 
them before our readers. 
While it is regarded as a settled 
matter by our most experienced 
Lepidopterists, that the Chibni&v, 
and Crambidce are properly placed 
among the Fijralides , it is somewhat 
surprising that there are still those 
who either doubt, or even deny it. 
Foremost amongst them Prof. 
Guenee claims our attention, as he 
is taken as a guide by most entomo- 
logists in France and England. So 
• far from recognizing the results of 
the careful investigations and im- 
provements of other clever and 
discerning men, he has rejected 
them with disdain, and still holds to 
the mistaken notions of our pre- 
decessors, with respect to the Nodua 
and Pyralides. He has not, how- 
ever, even the merit of consistency, 
for he has not hesitated to place the 
Eudorece, which used to be classed 
with the Tinece , among the Pyra- 
lides. It would be a tedious task to 
prove that the Chiloncs and Cram- 
bidiv would be removed with equal 
justice from the former group ; a 
task which I should, however, have 
undertaken (though not with any 
hope of converting Guenee), but for 
two reasons ; first, the limits of 
this work forbade it, and secondly, 
I was aware that Herr Lederer, an 
entomologist remarkable for the 
clearness of his descriptions, is 
engaged on a work on the Classifi- 
cation of the Pyralides , in which all 
these points will be set forth with 
the utmost care and accuracy, and 
illus Hated by figures. 
I wish, myself, to make a few 
remarks to the following effect: 
No one will deny that among the 
smaller lejpidoptera, the Crarnbi and 
Chiloncs have special attractions in 
the variety of form and beauty of 
coloring, which they present. On 
this account, though the number of 
species inhabiting Europe is by no 
