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tinned call for n rejoinder by myself. Dr. Oyar's review, con- 

 sisting as it docs largely of personal items, may be advantage- 

 ously disregarded. Mr. Bethune-Baker comments on the ar- 

 rangement of Aegeriidae in our "Check List": in this \ve fol- 

 lowed, more or less blindly, Mr. A. Btisck's Synoptic Tables 

 of the group published in 1909 (Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc., xi. 

 115) and must refer him to Mr. Busck personally for further 

 details. Sir George Hampson charges that the type of the 

 genus Phytouietra Haw. cannot possibly lie acnco as specified 

 by Westwood, since it was based on larval characters, the only 

 two larvae known to Haworth being those of fcstncac and 

 ^(Uinna; he would therefore place the genus as prior to Auto- 

 (jrapha; I must confess that Haworth's "Lepidoptera F>ritan- 

 nica" is entirely unknown to me and I doubt if a copy exists in 

 this country; if so, I have been unable to find it. This being 

 the case, I cannot comment on Hampson's remarks but would 

 note that he certainly raises a delicate point which may call 

 for a special ruling by the committee on International Nomen- 

 clature. With regard to Hampson's non-acceptance of Och- 

 senheimer's generic names published in 1816 as notnina nuda 

 I quote Article 79 of Hanks and Caudell's Entomological Code 

 which says that "A generic name becomes valid when publish- 

 ed in connection with or with reference to a valid (== described 

 or figured) specific name or to replace a valid generic name." 

 The first portion of this article clearly covers Ochsenheimer's 

 generic names which were published in connection with sev- 

 eral valid specific names ; I believe that the general entomolog- 

 ical usage in this country upholds me in regarding them as 

 valid and I must refuse to accept Hampson's reference of them 

 to Treitschke (1825). 



With regard to Hampson's remarks on the dates of Hub- 

 ner's "Vcr/eichni --." I should like to point out that he has 

 overlooked several important points in this connection. In 

 the first place T would refer him lo a painnhlet published in 

 1005 by Trof. ' '. II. Fernald. of \mheM. M.-i.ssacliMsetts. on 

 the dates of Ilubner's "Sammlung Eur Schmett." ; in thi- 

 i are reprinted s< \eral of ITiibner's <{ ( it, // 



