﻿Dec. iSgs] Grote. Schrank's Grnera. 171 



ner and Ochsenheimer. For there is then no vital conflict left ; so far 

 as my researches go there are but two or three corrections necessary in 

 the Agrotidse, where Ochsenheimer has rejected a few names without 

 apparent reason. He adopts far more than he rejects, and the rejec- 

 tions arise from special causes, in the main, to be studied out by the 

 systematist and nomenclator. All ground for radical disputes would 

 be taken away by this course. There is no reason why we should be 

 be better than Ochsenheimer in his fourth volume, and take a different 

 stand as to Hiibner. Above all we secure to the nomenclator the great 

 benefit of the undisputed use of the Tentamen in ascertaining the true 

 origin of many names in use and the unfailing designation of their 

 types. 



We may now consider certain of Schrank's genera, all those of the 

 Agrotidae, and a few of the others. They date from 1802; the species 

 are described in Vol, I, 1801. 



Saturnia. 



1802. Schrank, Faun. Boic. II, 149. — Pyf'i, spini, carpini, tail. 



18 10. Ochsenheimer, Schm. Europ. Ill, i. — Pyri spini, carpini. 

 [This restriction of Ochsenheimer's, is that to-day adopted. Heccra 

 Tentamen 181 1, for carpini {Favonia minor') becomes a synonym, in 

 the absence of character.] 



1895. Grote, Syst. Lep. Hild. — Designates pyri {Favonia major Z.) 

 as type. 



Bom by X. 



1802. Schrank, Faun. Boic. II, 150. — Mori, versicolor. [This re- 

 striction of the Linnean genus Bombyx is important, because it fixes 

 the type as mori, through Ochsenheimer's erection of the genus En- 

 dromis for versicolor, 1810, III, 15. The generic title Bombyx has, 

 then, been misapplied to the Lachneidae by authors, and its use in 

 Staudinger's Catalogue must be abandoned. I am therefore correct in 

 designating inori, which was virtually the type since 18 10.] 



Poecilia. 



1802. Schrank, Faun. Boic. II, 157. — Ferla, aprilijia, runica. 

 [The name falls because preoccupied.] 



Cucullia. 



1802. Schrank, Faun. Boic. II, 157. — [Refers here his families G & 

 H, I, 325 et seg.] Fam. G: artemisia, abrotani, absynthii, verbasci, 



