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NOTE ON THE GENERIC TITLE BURTIA. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



The generic title Burtia was proposed by me in the first part of the 

 Notes on the Zygamidse of Cuba, read February 12, 1S66, before the Ent. 

 Soc. Phil., and published in July of the same year. The genus is, 

 however, incorrectly dated " 1S67 " by Kirby in his catalogue of 1892, 

 where B. rubella seems also wrongly given as a synonym of Gundlachia 

 crue?ita, H.-S., the two species being presumably distinct. Now, Moeschler 

 had previously, in 1S90 (Lep. Porto Rico, p. 349), given " Horamia 

 plumosa, H.-S.," as a synonym of B. rubella, and " G. crueuta" as a 

 synonym of Callicarus pennipes, thus according to my paper priority over 

 Herrich-Schaeffer's in the Correspondenz Blatt, although these reversed 

 references may chiefly show that Moeschler could not make out H.-S. 

 descriptions, which are usually scanty. Kirby (p. 129) also gives pennipes 

 the preference over plumosa, a name I cannot find in Hampson. From 

 my copy, evidently not the original issue, I cannot find out the exact date 

 for Gundlachia. Kirby dates H. firetellus, H.-S., as "Aug., 1866," a 

 month later than Gundlachia or Burtia, though the former is, in my copy, 

 on the previous page of Corr. Blatt. Under the circumstances that my 

 paper was read in February, 1866, that Moeschler prefers Burtia in 1890, 

 and that I figure it, I think my name should hold for the Cuban genus 

 over Gundlachia, even if both appeared in the same month — July, 1866. 

 Sir G. Hampson copies Kirby's wrong date of " 1867 " for Burtia, and, 

 evidently misled by this, gives my name as a synonym, while separating 

 the two species, B. cruenta and B. rubella, and figuring rubella on 

 Plate XIII., Fig. 9, of his exhaustive work on the Syntomids. In the 

 Philadelphia Check List the name Burtia is unnecessarily used for the 

 Florida Didasys belce, Grote, the two genera being distinct. I am not 

 able to account for Kirby giving the date of "1867" for the genus 

 Callicarus, Grote, 1866, a name he also misspells, and which is described 

 in the same paper with Burtia. Probably the correct date for Horamia 

 plumosa, H.-S., is August, while that or Callicarus pennipes, Grote, is 

 certainly July, 1866. 



