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found Xylina rhizolitha , Orthosia pis- 
tacina and Oporabia dilutata at rest. — 
E. G. Rye, 14, King's Parade , Chelsea. 
Duplicate Coleoptera. — I have taken a 
few specimens of Ischnomera ccerulea, 
and I have some specimens left of Lathri- 
dins fiiiformis , Gyll., a new British spe- 
cies, which I shall be glad to exchange 
for any of the genus Agathidium, Clambus 
or Scaphiosoma, Antherophagus or Aploc- 
nemis. Gentlemen had better write first, 
as I should not like to he inundated with 
boxes. — E. Pahfitt, 4, Weirjield Place , 
St. Leonard's , Exeter ; Nov. 19. 
PRONUNCIATION AND MEANING OF 
NAMES. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — The thanks of a large number of 
entomologists are due to your correspon- 
dent of last week for introducing a sub- 
ject, which he very truly remarks “ is of 
more or less importance to all, and espe- 
cially to many of the working classes.” 
His plan of marking the quantities of 
the words is good and even essential, but 
I think it would be scarcely sufficient. 
There are scores of men (who have never 
received a classical education, hut who 
are notwithstanding very good entomolo- 
gists), who use a number of Latin and 
Greek words, without having the re- 
motest idea of what they mean, simply 
because other people do so, and because 
they are set down as incipients if they 
do not make use of them. Nothing can 
he more absurd than that people should 
jabber a host of words without knowing 
what they mean, and nothing can be 
more horrible than the pronunciation 
which is the natural result. I think that 
a list in which the quantities of the words 
were marked and the derivations given, 
would supply this deficiency in our ento- 
mological literature, for example, — 
Pieris. Gr. n^if, one of the LLs^/Jej, 
a surname of the Muses. 
BrassiVse. Lat. Brassic'a (-«), a cabbage. 
So called because the food-plant of the 
larva is the cabbage. 
Hoping that some one capable of car- 
rying out a plan of this kind will soon 
appear, I remain, &c., 
T. J. Stain ton. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — I have experienced so much dis- 
appointment and loss from damage done 
to boxes of insects in passing through 
the post, that I indite this note to you, 
hoping that its publication may point out 
to some of my “ brothers of the net and 
pin” the dangers and the best way, in 
my humble opinion, to avoid, or at least 
mitigate, them. It is impossible to guard 
against cases of violence such as result 
when the Post-Office clerks, “if the bag 
happens to be pretty full” of letters, 
“jump on them and push them in with 
their feet,’’ as related in last year’s 
‘Intelligencer’ (vol. i. p. 165); hut, by 
proper packing, we may avoid the dangers 
of stamping. First, I always pack the 
box with wool round it, putting the direc- 
tion and postage-stamps on a good-sized 
luggage-label, which is tied to the box, 
but hangs loose. I used to wrap the box 
in white paper, and write on both sides 
“ Please stamp on the label only,” but a 
far better way is to wrap the box in black 
calico, because the office-stamp marks 
will not generally show on black, and 
the clerk will then stamp on the label, as 
the only place available. It would be a 
good addition to have a thin strip of 
paper, with the words “ Please stamp on 
the label only ” printed on it, pasted out- 
side the calico, as when the box passes 
