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Haworth, Prod. Lp. Br., 15 (1802), removed jyrasinana, L. (= 

 fngina, Hw.) to " Noctuse viridse," a very proper correction of a 

 Linnajan error, unfortunately, however, Lp. Br., ^94-6 (1S12), he 

 replaced it ii] Tortrix, but his previous restriction, which was justified, 

 must be held to exclude this species from being a possible type of 

 the genus. 



Leach, Edinb. Encycl., 135 (1815), quotes /»r«5ma?j«, L. (=^fagana, 

 Lch.), as the type of Tortrix, but this species cannot be accepted as 

 the type, for it does not conform to Linnaeus' description of the habits 

 of the larvas of the genus, and it had been excluded by Haworth in 

 1802. 



Frolich, Enum. Tortr. Wiirt., 9-11 (1828), and Treitschke, Schm. 

 Eur., VII, 228-30 (1829) : VIII, 45 (1830), do not affect the type, but 

 Stephens, Cat. Br. Ins., II, 168 (1829), enumerates only one of the 

 species included in the genus by Linnaeus, which fixes the type as 

 ViRiDANA, L., and in 111. Br. Eut. Haust., IV, 60, 68 (1834), Stephens 

 gives reasons for considering this species the type. In this he has 

 been followed by all subsequent writers with the exception of Du- 

 ponchel, who Hist. Nat. Lp. Fr., IX, 19 (1834), erroneously cited 

 cratcegana, Hb., as the type. It will be observed that whether we 

 study this genus under its original Linna^an name or under that of 

 Pi/ralis, F. («(?c L.), the results are the same, viridana, L., is the type, 

 and as it is an eminently typical species about which there has never 

 existed an}'' doubt, it is to be hoped that it will be impossible to assail 

 its claims to be regarded as the type of Tortrix, L. 



TINEA, L. 

 Type — Tinea pellionella, L. (F., 1775). 

 TiNE^, L., Syst. Nat., X, 496 (1758). 



"Alis convolutis fere in cylindrum, fronte prominula." On p. 

 497 it is remarked that the "Tineis subcutaneis " have only fourteen 

 feet, but this is a mere note on the structural characteristics of a 

 certain section of Tinea, L., and in no way affects the question of 

 type. 



In the Fauna Suecica, II (1761), Linnieus omits Phahetia Tinea 

 hella, L., which therefore ceases to be a possible type, and in the same 

 year Poda, Ins. IMus. Graec, 94 (1701), enumerated two only of the 

 species placed in Tinea by hinuisus, granella, Li., and j)enio?iella, L. 

 Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr., 399 (1764), mentions only PhalcBna Tinea 

 bella, L., but his previous action and that of Poda ])revent this species 

 from being accepted as the type. 



