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rules for tlie sound of ch, g, ce, ce, &c., 
should be published. The derivation of 
the generic names, vvheu known, might 
be added, as Loudon has done, only, as 
Mr. Westwood remarked at the last 
meeting of the Entomological Society, 
the works of the author of the name 
should always be referred to, in order 
that his derivation, and not a supposed 
one, might be given. 
J. W. Douglas. 
Lee ; Jan. 8, 1858. 
FALSE QUANTITIES! 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
“ Broutesque Steropesque et nudus membra 
Pyracmon." Virgil. 
Sir, — Your correspondent “Sigma,” 
after urging the desirableness of a work on 
the meaning and pronunciation of ento- 
mological names, proceeds to illustrate his 
argument with a list of half-a-dozen or so 
of classical terms of Lepidoptera, which 
he accentuates and interprets for the in- 
formation of the unlearned, adding that 
“ a complete list of names could not fail 
to be acceptable, if prepared as above.” 
To this I must take leave to demur, and 
in no mere carping and hypercritical 
spirit, when I find, among the five names 
given, one (Stiropes) accentuated wrongly, 
having the o emphasised as long instead of 
short (as evidence of the true accent, take 
the line of Virgil at the head of this 
letter). This may appear of no great 
consequence, but it is due to those 
amongst your readers who are not learned 
in the ancient classics of Greece and 
Rome that they should not be misled 
by those who profess to be their in- 
structors. 
The proposed ‘ Grades Entomolo- 
gicus,’ which I am pleased to learn is 
to be taken in hand by Oxford and 
Cambridge scholars, cannot fail at least 
of classical correctness, and if to that be 
added sound entomological learning, the 
work will be of great value to all culti- 
vators of our favourite Science. 
I remain, Sir, 
Faithfully yours, 
Jan. 9, 1858. Gamma. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — r am half inclined to let Mr. Har- 
rington’s letter pass, but there are two or 
three assertions in it that require contra- 
diction. In the first place, the moths 
were neither covered over with blue mould 
nor all broken to pieces ; the only speci- 
men injured by the double journey was 
a Pronuba that had got loose, but had in 
no way injured the others. Secondly, 
the L. Quercus, although not a fine spe- 
cimen (being, as I had caught it, a little 
rubbed), was neither wet nor mossy. As 
to the box, it was not one you would 
give a shilling for at Mr. Gardner’s, but 
a good serviceable one, made of strong 
mill-board and corked. Even if the in- 
sects had been broken in the journey 
and the box an old match-box (as I have 
had sent to me), Mr. Harrington would 
not have been justified in returning them 
unpaid. I am very sorry that Mr. Har- 
rington, who has duplicates of C. Hyale 
and A. Lathonia, can want M. Brassiere, 
X. Polyodon and T. Pronuba, and pity 
him being located in such a barren spot 
that he cannot take them for himself. I 
have inclosed in a box two specimens 
that I sent to see if you can discover any 
mouldiness. 
I am. Sir, 
Yours respectfully, 
R. Tyrer, jun. 
Lecture on Entomology. — The 
members of a literary institution at 
Kentish Town were recently edified by a 
