Note 1271 — LETTER XLVII.
Reading edition
Dr. Horsfield, in his very ingenious and generally admirable Descriptive Catalogue of the Javanese Lepidoptera in the Museum of the Honourable East India Company, has divided that Order into five primary groups, apparently to accommodate it to Mr. W. S. MacLeay's quinary system. I trust he will pardon me for observing, that in this arrangement he seems to me rather to force than to follow nature; and that though he adheres to the above system as to the number, he forsakes it in the construction of his groups.