From H. T. Stainton   22 December 1856

My dear Sir

Though it rather goes against my grain to furnish English names, yet I feel that your experience ought to render you as good a judge on the matter as any one, & therefore I have filled up the blanks on your test which I enclose.

I am not satisfied with the names I have given for Adippe & Cirisia, but I cannot think of any better ones.

I have your test of Hitcham plants which you sent me last summer, & I notice the way in which you have adopted Knautia, Inula, Pulicaria &c as English names.

It is the extreme barbarousness of many of our Trivial names which no doubt help to excite a prejudice against them—in insects especially shoals of names have been used as meaningless as “The Duke of Burgundy Fritillary” & one must be very much wedded to old things to wish to restore such a misnomer for a little butterfly, like Nemeolius Lucina.

With Comp ^ts of the Season

Believe me, my dear Sir |yours very sincerely | H. T. Stainton