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STEAY NOTES ON MONOPIS CROCWAPITELLA, Clms., AND 

 M. FERRUGINELLA, Hb. 



BY EUSTACE R. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



Plate IV. 



In Fn. Hawaii., i, 728, no. 437 (1907), Lord Walsingluuu showed 

 that liyal'meMa, Stgr., lombardica, Hrng., heringt, Rdsu., and ferru- 

 yinella, Dyar (nee Hb.), are all identical with the Moiwpls upon 

 which Clemens, as long ago as 1859, bestowed the name crocicapitella. 

 Shortly afterwai-ds, in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907, p. 1022, tlie same 

 author published another notice of the species, and included the more 

 important synonyms and references. 



The history of the synonym heringi is as follows. Coiuit Grianf ranco 

 Turati, of Milan, having met with the insect at his country seat at 

 Alzate, Brianza, on the southern side of the Lago di Como, in the 

 division of Lombardy, intended to describe it under the name heringi, 

 in honour of Major E. Hering, of Stettin, but subsequently, at the 

 Count's request, the Major himself brought forward the species as 

 new to science (Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1889, p. 295), and called it lombardica 

 — modesty not allowing him to perpetuate the former name. Unaware 

 of Major Hering's action, Mr. N. M. Richardson, after finding in the 

 Stainton Collection some continental specimens, forwarded by the 

 Major before the publication of his paper (I.e.), standing under the 

 MS. name heringi, which had been received with them, adopted this 

 name for the insect in Ent. Mo. Mag., Ser. 2, iv. 14-15 (1893), 

 and tlius created the fresh synonym heringi (Turati MS.), Edsn. 

 Mr. Richardson there expressed dovibts as to whether "heringi'''' was a 

 good species, or only a well-marked local variety of ferruginella, but, 

 in Proc. Dorset. N.H. and A.F. Club, xvii, 180 (1896), having in the 

 meantime had some correspondence with Major Hering, who, it may 

 be mentioned, confirmed the determination of the Portland insect as 

 lombardica, Hrng., here entered it under this name. 



M. crocicapitella has not, I believe, been hitherto chronicled from 

 any British localities, with the exception of "Portland" (Dorset), and 

 "Norfolk." It was recorded from these, by Mr. Richardson, under 

 the synonym " Blabophanes Heringi,'^ in Ent. Mo. Mag. (I.e.), but in 

 Mr. Meyrick's HB. Brit. Lep., published upwards of two and a half 

 years after Mr. Richardson's paper, it is not referred to under this or 

 any other name. It is, however, much more widely distributed with 

 us than this absence of records would suggest, and the following 

 summary shows the localities, so far as they are Icnown to me, in 



