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and Leptopus a sub-tribe. I have elsewhere ^ so fully entered on 
the propriety of adopting subgeneric names, that I shall not here 
do more than thus refer to the plan. 
This multiplicity of new genera has led to another inconvenience. 
In order to avoid the possibility of using generic names formed 
from the Greek, which had been used before, the authors have 
had recourse to the Arabic, Chinese, Sanscrit, and Hebrew, 
(in opposition to the Linnsean and Fabrician canons ; f) the cha¬ 
racters of all which languages are scattered over the pages, it being 
the plan of the authors to give the derivations of each generic name 
adopted throughout the work: occasionally when this has not been 
given by the original proposer of a name, they have failed in 
attaching the correct signification to it. Thus my genus Deroploa, 
distinguished by having its prothorax armed with two very thick 
spines (from the Greek AepT] and 07r\a), is given with the derivation 
of the “neck*” and “navigation,’’ with a remark on its want of 
sense. So my name Metapodius, applied to a genus in which 
the jwe^athoracic feet are very large, is said to be derived from the 
toothed front oi head (Metopodus), and it is added, that I have 
written “ Metapodius par erreur^ sans doutef whilst the names 
which I have given to the genera established by me allied to Derbe, 
(and to which, following the plan set by Fabricius of giving to 
various Homopterous genera the names of towns in the Holy Land, 
e. g. DerbeJ and Lystra, I had applied the names of Zeugma, 
Patara, Plienice, &c.), are set down by our authors as “ noms de 
fantaisie, formes sans regies grammaticales et purement au hasard.” 
In the last place, it is to be regretted that the various contributors 
to this series have not adopted a uniform plan in treating the 
species; whilst some, as IMessrs. Edwards and Boisduval, have made 
their works a complete descriptive “species insectorum,” others 
have given only those species which they happen to have seen 
in nature, either entirely omitting all notice of the genera and 
species described by others, or giving only references to them. 
^ Ent. Text Book, p. 59. Trans. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 29. 
f “ Nomina gencrica qua? ex gra:ca v'el latina lingua radicem non habcui rejicicnda sunt.” 
■—Linn. Phil. Bot., p. 163. 
“Nomina barbara qua? quidam in Entomologia in novissimis temporibas introduxerunt 
omnino rejicienda, quem nullo modo intelligantur et difficile pronuncientur.”—Fabr. Phil. 
Ent., p. 109. 
X The authors state that the etymology of the name Derbe is “ inconnue.” Had they 
been aware of its true signification, they would have possessed the clue to the etymology of 
my generic names allied to that genus. 
